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‘The Eyes Of The World’ Blends Music, Broadway Stars And Vivid History To Tell WWII Stories – Contenders TV: Documentary, Unscripted & Variety
The PBS special The Eyes of The World: From D Day to VE Day tells a perspective of the final months of World War II as never seen before.
American History Unbound Taped last May before a live audience with the 60-piece Boston Pops providing the music, historian John Monsky leads the audience through the dramatic final 11 months of the war including the landing on Omaha Beach in Normandy on June 6, 1944, as well as the largely untold personal stories of the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Life Magazine war photographer Robert Capa, Vogue model-turned-photojournalist Lee Miller, and a young soldier named Jerry who was on the front lines (and later revealed to be none other than J.D. Monsky explained how this show — the last to be performed in the East Room of the White House toward the end of President Joe Biden’s tenure — came about, especially in finding the stories of the likes of Hemingway, Miller, Capa and Salinger in terms of their service in WWII. But I collect American flags, and I had a flag that was on a landing craft that came into Omaha Beach and another one that came into Utah Beach, and at both Utah and Omaha you had Hemingway and you had Jerry, and then Lee Miller shows up and Robert Capa shows up, and so the story revolves around those moments,” he said.
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