就如BBC的二次大戰(zhàn)啟示錄主要講歐戰(zhàn)一樣，這部紀(jì)錄片也主要講美國在二戰(zhàn)中的表現(xiàn)，還比較夸贊美國的英雄主義和作戰(zhàn)勇敢。拍攝的作戰(zhàn)場景較多距離更近，但相對還是喜歡BBC拍的。。。。。。。。。。。。。

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT'S "FLAG DAY" ADDRESS

June 13, 1942

White House news release.

Today on Flag Day we celebrate the declaration of the United Nations-that great alliance dedicated to the defeat of our foes and to the establishment of a true peace based on the freedom of man. Today the Republic of Mexico and the Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands join us. We welcome these valiant peoples to the company of those who fight for freedom.

The four freedoms of common humanity are as much elements of man's needs as air and sunlight, bread and salt. Deprive him of all these freedoms and he dies-deprive him of a part of them and a part of him withers. Give them to him in full and abundant measure and he will cross the threshold of a new age, the greatest age of man.

These freedoms are the rights of men of every creed and every race, wherever they live. This is their heritage, long withheld. We of the United Nations have the power and the men and the will at last to assure man's heritage.

The belief in the four freedoms of common humanity-the belief in man, created free, in the image of God-is the crucial difference between ourselves and the enemies we face today. In it lies the absolute unity of our alliance, opposed to the oneness of the evil we hate. Here is our heritage, the source and promise of victory.

We of the United Nations know that our faith cannot be broken by any man or any force. And we know that there are other millions who in their silent captivity share our belief.

We ask the German people, still dominated by their Nazi whip-masters, whether they would rather have the mechanized hell of Hitler's "New" Order or-in place of that-freedom of speech and religion, freedom from want and from fear.

We ask the Japanese people, trampled by their savage lords of slaughter, whether they would rather continue slavery and blood or, in place of them-freedom of speech and religion, freedom from want and from fear.

We ask the brave, unconquered people of the nations the Axis invaders have dishonored and despoiled whether they would rather yield to conquerors or-have freedom of speech and religion, freedom from want and from fear.

We know the answer. They know the answer. We know that man, born to freedom in the image of God, will not forever suffer the oppressors' sword. The peoples of the United Nations are taking that sword from the oppressors' hands. With it they will destroy those tyrants. The brazen tyrannies pass. Man marches forward toward the light.

I am going to close by reading you a prayer that has been written for the United Nations on this Day:

"God of the free, we pledge our hearts and lives today to the cause of all free mankind.

"Grant us victory over the tyrants who would enslave all free men and nations. Grant us faith and understanding to cherish all those who fight for freedom as if they were our brothers. Grant us brotherhood in hope and union, not only for the space of this bitter war, but for the days to come which shall and must unite all the children of earth.

"Our earth is but a small star in the great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color or theory. Grant us that courage and foreseeing to begin this task today that our children and our children's children may be proud of the name of man.

"The spirit of man has awakened and the soul of man has gone forth. Grant us the wisdom and the vision to comprehend the greatness of man's spirit, that suffers and endures so hugely for a goal beyond his own brief span. Grant us honor for our dead who died in the faith, honor for our living who work and strive for the faith, redemption and security for all captive lands and peoples. Grant us patience with the deluded and pity for the betrayed. And grant us the skill and the valor that shall cleanse the world of oppression and the old base doctrine that the strong must eat the weak because they are strong.

"Yet most of all grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years-a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds. We are all of us children of earth-grant us that simple knowledge. If our brothers are oppressed, then we are oppressed. If they hunger, we hunger. If their freedom is taken away, our freedom is not secure. Grant us a common faith that man shall know bread and peace-that he shall know justice and righteousness, freedom and security, an equal opportunity and an equal chance to do his best, not only in our own lands, but throughout the world. And in that faith let us march, toward the clean world our hands can make. Amen."

1 War is stupid, nobody likes war unless they have to fight for their freedom. The man who was trapped behind the German line. He slit a German soldier's throat in order to keep himself covered. The bad experience lives with him for his whole life.

2 Those who declared the war never fight for the war. A General said to his troops who were going to Normandy "I know some of you will be alive or dead. This makes no difference because we are going to do it". A soldier responded "It makes no difference to you, sir. But it did to us"

3 The grueling point of the war is not how many causalities we will have. It is the influence to the civilians especially women and children. During the battle of Saipan, thousands of Japanese civilians committed suicide by jumping off the Banzai cliff because of their emperor told them to. In addition, remember those Jews who died in the German interment Camp.

4 After German and Janpan surrendered, people celebrated a lot on Times Square and elsewhere. But when the wounded including seriously injured and amputated were finally shipped home nobody celebrated. Everything is normal.

我到目前只看前面三集，那個時候的美國已經(jīng)在維護世界秩序了，而我們的前輩們依然在為生存為獨立而浴血奮戰(zhàn)，差距太大了。

簡單的說，我不喜歡這個系列的電影，雖然它號稱有很多很多的未公開的鏡頭，問題在于，這不影片實際上是在講二戰(zhàn)中幾個人的故事，這些人或許真實存在，但是他們的故事，并沒有被人拍下來，因為那時候他們只是無名小卒而已，現(xiàn)在的這部紀(jì)錄片，實際上是把與這些人無關(guān)的鏡頭，拿來描述這些人遇到的事，這樣就很不真實的，畫面上的只是剪切拼湊的鏡頭，與“演戲”無異，看著太別扭，所以中途看到第三集左右的時候我決定不再看下去了。