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Feature film — 2017

Battle of Okinawa in Color (2017)

9.00h 51mDocumentary — War — History

By mid-1945, Hitler is dead and the war has ended in Europe. Halfway around the world, however, the fighting is still going strong on a small island in the Pacific. Okinawa was the site of the last battle of the last great war of the 20th century, with a casualty rate in the tens of thousands. Through it all, military cameramen risked their lives to film the conflict, from brutal land combat to fierce kamikaze attacks at sea. See the footage they captured and experience this intense battle the way the soldiers saw it -- in color.

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Cast & crew

Jeff Wilburn as Self - Narrator (voice)

Jeff Wilburn

Self - Narrator (voice)

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Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.

Self - Commander of the U.S. 10th Army (archive footage)

Chester W. Nimitz as Self - Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet (archive footage)

Chester W. Nimitz

Self - Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet (archive footage)

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Mitsuru Ushijima

Self - Commander of the Japanese 32nd Army (archive footage)

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