THE AMERICAN COMMAND

This series focuses on issues of leadership and character and their impact on the military, political and domestic events of the war. These presidents and military commanders simultaneously adjusted to and shaped their times and the years ahead.

PROGRAM TOPICS AND FILMS

Session 1: Roosevelt and the Wartime Presidency

Film: FDR

Session 2: Marshall and the Strategy of War

Film: George Marshall and the American Century

Session 3: Eisenhower and the European Campaign

Film: Eisenhower

Session 4: The Navy's Wars

Films: The Navy Holds (“Crusade in the Pacific”) and Wolfpack (“The World at War”)

Session 5: MacArthur and the Pacific War

Film: General Douglas MacArthur

Session 6: Truman and Victory

Film: The Bomb (“The World at War”)

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

This series focuses on the experiences on the home front during the war. It explores the social and economic issues that emerged in America during the war years, with special attention paid to those trends that continue to influence American life today.

PROGRAM TOPICS AND FILMS

Session 1: The Home Front

Film: The Homefront

Session 2: Women Join the Workforce

Film: The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter

Session 3: Japanese Americans and World War II

Films: The Color of Honor & Days of Waiting

Session 4: The Double V - African Americans and the War

Film: Proudly We Served: The Men of the USS Mason

Session 5: America and the Holocaust

Film: America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference

Session 6: The Experience of Combat

Film: D-Day