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The Pacific [videorecording (DVD)].

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Home Box Office ; distributed by Warner Home Video, c2010.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Ocean -- Drama.

[videorecording (DVD)].

6 videodiscs (530 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital DTS Surround sd., col. ; 12 cm.

"Based primarily on two memoirs of U.S. Marines, With the Old breed: at Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene Sledge and Helmet for my pillow by Robert Leckie."--Wikipedia.

DVD release of ten part miniseries originally broadcast on HBO in 2010.

Special features: # Profiles of The Pacific : intimate portraits of the real marines featured in The Pacific ; Making The Pacific: 30-minute feature providing an inside look at the making of this epic miniseries ; Anatomy of the Pacific war: historical documentary on the events that influenced the merciless brutality in the Pacific theater.

At head of title: Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman present.

Includes English (DTS digital Surround 5.1, 5.1), French (5.1) and Spanish (2.0) language tracks with optional English, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (complex) Bahasa, Korean or Thai subtitles.

Closed-captioned.

Disc 1. Parts one and two -- Disc 2. Parts three and four -- Disc 3. Parts five and six -- Disc 4. Parts seven and eight -- Disc 5. Parts nine and ten -- Disc 6. Special features.

HBO miniseries presents ; a Playtone and Dreamworks production ; Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Gary Goetzman, executive producers ; music, Hans Zimmer, Geoff Zanelli and Blake Neely ; various episode writers & directors.

James Badge Dale, Jon Seda and Joseph Mazzello with Ben Chisholm, Chris Milligan, Ashton Holmes, Josh Helman, Martin McCann, Keith Nobbs, Rami Malek, Toby Leonard Moore, Jacob Pitts and narrated by Tom Hanks.

"From executive producer Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman, The Pacific tracks the real-life journey's of three U.S. Marines - Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale), Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello), and John Basilone (Jon Seda) - across the vast canvas of the Pacific theater during World War II. The ministries follows these men and their fellow Marines from their first battle with the Japanese on Guadalcanal, through the rain forest of Cape Gloucester and the strongholds of Peleliu, across the bloody sands of Iwo Jima, through the horror of Okinawa, and finally to their triumphant but uneasy return home after V-J Day. The miniseries is based on part on the books Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie, and With the Old Breed by Eugene B. Sledge, with additional material from Red Blood, Black Sand by Chuck Tatum, and China Marine by Eugene B. Sledge, as well as original interviews conducted by the filmmakers."--Container.

8 Emmy Awards including Outstanding Miniseries, 2010.

War television programs.

Historical television programs

Military television programs

Television mini-series

Films for the hearing impaired.

Sledge, E. B. (Eugene Bondurant), 1923- With the old breed : at Peleliu and Okinawa.

Leckie, Robert, 1920- Helmet for my pillow.

Spielberg, Steven, 1946-

Goetzman, Gary, 1952-

Dale, James Badge, 1978-

Mazzello, Joseph, 1983-

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