- Network: Smithsonian Channel , Smithsonian
- Series Premiere Date: Dec 4, 2016
Season #: 2, 1
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A Smithsonian Channel documentary sizzling with breaking news broadcasts, pictures and commentaries seldom if ever included in previous documentaries. The result is quite simply spine-tingling, and that tingling grows steadily stronger.
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The program consists of just clips and still images with an occasional caption. No academics in office-chair interviews interpret things for you. No survivors grow weepy while dredging up their decades-old memories. No narration intrudes. The idea is to come closer to putting you in the historical moment, to give you a sense of what people experienced and felt at the time. It works quite well for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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What The Lost Tapes adds, beyond all the terrifying footage, is a plethora of perspectives and insights.