John FordThe Battle Of Midway (1942)

Academy Award winning documentary on the pivotal naval battle of the war in the Pacific. Filmed while the attack on Midway Island was underway, standout director John Ford was actually injured during filming.

More info on the film is available on its IMDB page.

This version was produced from a video copy of a fair film transfer at the National Archives.

NAIL: 80-MN-1433
ARC: 12870

This item is part of the collection: Feature Films

Director: John Ford
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: WWII; war; documentary

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Write a review Reviews

Downloaded 10,825 times Average Rating:

Reviewer: k-otic.com - - May 27, 2005
Subject: new copy

too bad that this copy is so extremly blurry
you can hardly see something
i`m going to upload a better copy of this

Reviewer: Violet Red Bile - - May 21, 2005
Subject: Not as interesting as I thought

Downloaded the 1 gig MPEG2-version since the 256 kbit/s MP4 -version didn't work. Somehow this documentary just disappointed. Sure there was some real footage from aircraft flying and anti aircraft fire against jap planes etc. But there was no information about the real battle. Also there was, quite conveniently, no mention that the big American victory was in large part due to luck. Well probably all that was to be expected since the documentary dates from 1942.