The War Movie

The War is a great movie by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, its a story of the past World War II events. The story focuses on the effect of the war on people, and on their families and communities.

The War is a 2007 World War II documentary produced by American filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. The film focuses on World War II in a "bottom up" fashion through the lenses of four "quintessentially American towns": Luverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Mobile, Alabama; and Waterbury, Connecticut. The film recounts the experiences of several individuals as they move through the war in both the Pacific and European theaters, and

The first episode of the multipart documentary averaged a 5.0 household rating/7 share in the top 56 "metered" markets, according to preliminary estimates released Monday by Nielsen Media Research.




That is on par with the opener of Burns' 1994 highly rated documentary series for PBS' "Baseball," which had a 5.1 household rating. (The 1990 premiere of Burns' "The Civil War" brought in a 9.0 rating.)

"The War" ran between 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. against season premieres on CBS and Fox, as well as a heavily watched "Sunday Night Football" matchup between the Dallas Cowboys and the Chicago Bears. At least 15.5 million people tuned in for some of the telecast, PBS said.

With the addition of a second airing nationwide, the first episode averaged 18.7 million viewers total, PBS said. The first episode was particularly strong in such markets as Minneapolis-St. Paul, Seattle, San Francisco and New York.

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