The Thin Red Line (with Steve Guerra)

Key Battles of American History

History

4.7 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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During a war, combatants often ponder the deep existential questions of life. These questions form the basis of Terence Malick’s 1998 war drama The Thin Red Line. On one level, The Thin Red Line is about a U. S. Army division’s attempt to take a hill...

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0:00.0	War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding
0:10.8	right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its
0:16.5	size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history.
0:24.0	Welcome to Key Battles of American History,
0:26.8	a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars.
0:32.8	Here is your host, James Early.
0:43.4	Music your host, James Early. Hi, everybody.
0:44.5	Before we get started, I wanted to introduce this episode, and give you a little background on it.
0:49.6	I wanted to include one more movie episode as we're rounding out the Guadalcanal series.
0:55.7	This movie that's about to follow, well, the movie we're about to discuss is definitely
1:02.8	my favorite movie in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
1:06.0	And I would say it's one of my top five World War II movies at all.
1:10.3	It's called The Thin Red Line, and it's
1:12.4	about the final stages of the Guadalcanal campaign. I love this movie so much, but this
1:18.8	discussion is one that I did with Steve Guerra quite a while back, probably two, three years ago
1:25.0	on his podcast, Beyond the Big Screen.
1:28.3	And Steve very graciously allowed me to have the audio file and to run it in this series.
1:34.2	So I hope you enjoy this discussion.
1:37.1	The format is a little bit different than what you have in most of my movie discussion episodes.
1:42.3	But I think you enjoy it a lot.
1:45.2	Steve and I really dig into some of the deep questions about the movie and really about
1:49.4	human existence in general.
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