Tora! Tora! Tora! (with Sean McIver) (ENCORE)

Key Battles of American History

History

4.7 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2024

⏱️ 97 minutes

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In the late 1960s, a Japanese film production team joined forces with an American team in an effort to produce a balanced and accurate retelling of the December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The result is the classic 1970 film Tora! Tora!...

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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.
0:48.8	Music host, James Early. Hello and welcome to season three of Key Battles of American History.
0:56.6	This is James, your host, as always, and I am really excited to be here with you and to kick off this new season. I had such a great time doing season one, in which we discussed World War I on film.
1:04.1	And of course, season two, we did a 35 plus episode series on key battles of the Pacific Theater of World War II.
1:12.9	So much fun that I decided to combine those two together.
1:16.5	And so season three, I'm excited to announce, is going to be the Pacific Theater of World
1:22.2	War II on film.
1:24.1	Or maybe I'll just call it the Pacific War on film.
1:26.7	There are so many good movies about
1:31.2	the Pacific theater alone, let alone the, that other theater in World War II, you know,
1:36.0	no, who cares about that one, right? We're all about the Pacific theater here. And I am also
1:42.4	delighted to once again be joined by my good buddy, my fellow Texan, fellow podcaster, fellow history nut and fellow film fanatic.
1:51.6	And that is Sean McIver.
1:53.1	Sean, welcome back.
1:54.7	Good to have you.
1:55.9	Howdy.
1:56.7	All right.
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