I watched the documentary Pearl Harbor: A Day of Infamy. The short movie starts out giving dates, times, locations, and information of when the Japanese started in on their attack on Pearl Harbor. It shows footage of a large number of planes flying in tight groups all together, heading one direction. It then shows the planes dive bombing buildings. It shows a speech made by Roosevelt talking about the attack on December 7, 1941. The attacks changed the US from being in all right standings with Japan to America declaring war on the Japanese Empire. It had many clips of soldiers that witnessed the speech, attack, and tragic events after the attack, talking about what they had seen and experienced that day and the days after.
It explained the attack as that there were many waves of Japanese attack planes and dive-bombers. They took out the airbases before American fighters could take to the air. Then they attacked the battleships. It showed footage of the bombs dropping all over and blowing up ships. They then continued to attack multiple other places along the Hawaiian coast. They then sent more torpedo bombers, which focused on the battle ships that were lined up battle ship row. They were described as sitting targets. Defender ships started firing back and planes started falling and exploding in the sky. The movie continued telling and showing clips of the attacks and rapped up telling how the attacks ended by the Japanese saying that the surprise attack was necessary. Americans admitted that they did a fantastic job of taking out all of our military forces in Hawaii. The United States made plans to attack and get back at them. Japanese families on the island were taken away and put behind fences and bars and questioned them about the attacks. Many soldiers believe that Roosevelt knew about the attacks and was planned to arouse the military to get them up and fighting back and accelerate the United States entrance into the war.
I would give this documentary a solid 9 out of 10. It had great information and was easy to understand. It mapped out the events of December 7th in a very nice way that was in order. It helped hearing what happened from real men that were at the attacks those days. Overall , lots of good information that was easy to understand. I would recommend this documentary.
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Grat job but your forgot the pictures!