The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw

Product Description

NBC News Presents: The Greatest Generation with Tom Brokaw. Three superb documentaries in which Tom Brokaw tells of the magnificent stories of "The Greatest Generation"....bringing to life the compelling and emotional stories of Tom Brokaw's three best selling books.

Disc One: They came of age during the Great Depression, fought to preserve freedom in World War II and went on to build modern America. Ordinary men and women whose everyday lives of duty, achievement and courage gave us the world we have today.

Disc2: The Greatest Generation Speaks
Tom Brokaw's follow-up to his original Greatest Generation special. In this documentary, a woman whose father died piloting a bomber over Europe is visited by Brokaw and shares family snapshots and a home movie of the father she never knew. Research into her father's fatal mission led her to survivors from his crew, and the camera follows as she meets elderly veterans who tell her firsthand of her father's heroism.

AND D-Day: A Leap Into History
Tom Brokaw's special marking the 60th Anniversary of D-Day. "Leap" features interviews with three members of the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, who discuss their harrowing descent into enemy gunfire, their lifelong friendships and their special bonds with French villagers who greeted them as liberators and saved their lives.

Disc3: The Greatest Generation - Memories of World War II
Experience the crucible of World War II as some of the greatest generation share their personal stories and experiences. Includes GIs, Sailors, Airmen and Marines.

Plus extra interviews on every disc with men who fought the good fight.