“The production uses a combination of dramatic narration, historic and modern images, motion graphics, reenactment footage, and music to share the mesmerizing stories.”
MORE THAN 200 years of military history — from the French Indian War to the Battle of Iwo Jima — is coming to life on YouTube with the release of the American Battlefield Trust documentary America’s Wars 1754-1945.
Produced by the battlefield preservation not-for-profit and Wide Awake Films, the hour-long presentation features stunning animated maps covering more than a dozen U.S. conflicts spanning the colonial period right up to the end of the Second World War. The War of Independence, the War of 1812, the U.S. Civil War and the two World Wars are just some of the events featured in the film.
“America’s narrative is about more than statesmen and founding documents; our story was written by millions of citizen soldiers on nearly 250 years’ worth of battlefields,” said Trust president David Duncan. “We are proud to present this comprehensive overview in a compelling and accessible format.”
The production, which premiered on Sept. 4, uses a combination of dramatic narration, historic and modern images, motion graphics, reenactment footage, and music to share the mesmerizing stories of more than a dozen individual conflicts, including the Revolutionary War, Indian Wars, Mexican-American War, Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I and World War II.
The America’s Wars 1754-1945 Animated Map joins the Trust’s broader series of about two dozen more focused animated map videos, which have collectively been viewed more than 20 million times. The Animated Maps collection brings alive individual battles or campaigns from the American Civil War, Revolutionary War and War of 1812 to life, complete with troop movement animations, narratives, video, and more.
“The America’s Wars 1754-1945 Animated Map is by far our most ambitious installment of the series,” said the Trust’s chief historian Garry Adelman.
America’s Wars 1754-1945 Animated Map is available free of charge. The full production is organized into chapters for individual conflicts to assist those who may prefer to utilize selected segments.
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