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A World Without War

A few weeks after the death of President Roosevelt shocks the country, Germany surrenders. Meanwhile, American sailors, soldiers and Marines endure the worst battle of the Pacific - Okinawa. In August, American planes drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Japanese, too, surrender. Millions return home - to try to learn how to live in a world without war.

Season 1 Episode 7 Length 2:07:27 Premiere: 8.8.12

Corporate funding is provided by General Motors, Anheuser-Busch, and Bank of America. Major funding is provided by Lilly Endowment, Inc.;PBS; National Endowment for the Humanities; CPB; The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations; The Pew Charitable Trusts; The Longaberger Foundation; and Park Foundation, Inc.

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Clips & Previews

A World Without War | Preview

Preview Length 00:30 Premiere Date 10.1.07

Mobile Shipyards

Clip Length 09:56 Premiere Date 9.22.07

African-Americans Troops Training

Clip Length 04:10 Premiere Date 9.22.07

The War Comes Home to Luverne

Clip Length 01:24 Premiere Date 9.22.07

D-Day in Luverne

Clip Length 05:10 Premiere Date 9.22.07

The Four Towns

Clip Length 11:00 Premiere Date 9.22.07

Wartown

Clip Length 12:43 Premiere Date 9.22.07

Rationing and Recycling

Clip Length 07:22 Premiere Date 9.22.07

Babe Ciarlo in Anzio

Clip Length 05:52 Premiere Date 9.22.07

That's War

Clip Length 01:26 Premiere Date 9.22.07

'Knew I'd Killed Men'

Clip Length 01:42 Premiere Date 9.22.07

Kinship

Clip Length 05:22 Premiere Date 9.22.07

Made into an enemy

Clip Length 07:14 Premiere Date 9.22.07

The War

The War is the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four American towns. The war touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America and demonstrated that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives.

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