| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Victory in the Pacific. Dir. by Austin Hoyt. Prod. by Austin Hoyt and Melissa Martin. Austin Hoyt Productions, 2005. 120 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698; 800-344-3337; <shop@pbs.org>; <http://shop.pbs.org/education/> [Sept. 12, 2005])
Victory in the Pacific is a new PBS documentary that combines both traditional and contemporary interpretations of the last year of the Pacific war. The combination is done in a way that is both encouraging and disappointing.	1
The film focuses on the Okinawa operation, especially the kamikaze assaults on the United States fleet stationed offshore. The filmmakers should be applauded for providing detail on Japanese plans to defend the island, creating a bloody stalemate that would cause the United States to sue for peace negotiations. In particular, this reviewer was intrigued by the idea that the emperor himself hoped that Okinawa would be so bloody as to make the United States rethink its plans to invade the Japanese home islands.	. . .

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