In 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced that Americans had a “rendezvous with destiny.” The war years turned that prophecy into a reality as America emerged from its traditional isolationism and became an imperialist , interventionist nation–the most powerful nation in the world…
Films of Interest:
God Is My Co-Pilot, A Walk in the Sun, The Story of G.I. Joe and Objective Burma
The Best Years of Our Lives swept the Academy Awards, was the top box office attraction of 1947, and garnered great critical praise. James Agee, for one, wrote that it was “one of the very few American studio made movies that seem to me profoundly pleasing, moving and encouraging.”
In 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced that Americans had a “rendezvous with destiny.” The war years turned that prophecy into a reality as America emerged from its traditional isolationism and became an imperialist , interventionist nation–the most powerful nation in the world…
Films of Interest:
God Is My Co-Pilot, A Walk in the Sun, The Story of G.I. Joe and Objective Burma
The Best Years of Our Lives swept the Academy Awards, was the top box office attraction of 1947, and garnered great critical praise. James Agee, for one, wrote that it was “one of the very few American studio made movies that seem to me profoundly pleasing, moving and encouraging.”