75 Years of Pearl Harbor on film
by amy
75 years is not so long ago, and as three noteworthy films whose themes revolve around the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii illustrate, Hollywood has long had a fascination with this infamous (to borrow from the words of President Franklin D. Roosevelt) and momentous event in U. S. history. Perhaps the most noteworthy film is Fred Zinnemann’s 1953 winner of eight Academy Awards From Here to Eternity that traces through five distinct storylines the human side of the event. 1970s' Tora! Tora! Tora! seeks to reconstruct the attack in a quasi-documentary fashion (from both the American and Japanese sides) and never underestimate the sheer volume of the carnage to be found in Michael Bay’s 2001 retelling of the event through two young American fighter pilots (Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett) who find themselves unexpectedly caught up in world history at Pearl Harbor. The 1980s also saw the TV miniseries Winds of War and War and Remembrance.
AADL also has a few documentaries, including USS Arizona: Life and Death Of A Lady and Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor.
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