It feels downright unpatriotic to criticize Until They Are Home, a well-meaning but pedestrian documentary that deals with gut-wrenching subject matter. Steven C. Barber’s film concerns the stirring mission of the Joint Pow/Mia Accounting Command—Jpac for short—to retrieve the bodies of hundreds of American servicemen killed in the Battle of Tarawa in 1943, representing one of the bloodiest skirmishes of World War II. Video: Jon Hamm, Kelsey Grammer's Pre-Hollywood Jobs Were All About 'Asses and Elbows' More than 1,000 soldiers were killed in the struggle, which happened so quickly that they were buried in mass graves
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- 8/30/2012
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Title: Until They Are Home Directors: Steven Barber and Matthew Hausle Narrated in stentorian tones by Kelsey Grammer, documentary “Until They Are Home” shines a light on the extraordinary dedication of the Joint Pow/Mia Accounting Command, a military subset that works to locate and identify the bodies of American service members spanning various conflicts – and specifically their search for the missing remains of U.S. Marines killed in the Battle of Tarawa in November 1943 during World War II. Earnest and well-meaning but a bit sludgy and unfocused, this flag-wrapped documentary offering should find a home on PBS or elsewhere as part of future Memorial Day small screen programming. The attack on the [ Read More ]...
- 8/17/2012
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
Award-winning filmmaker Steven C. Barber ("Return To Tarawa") has a new documentary making its debut this Memorial Day. "Until They Are Home" focuses on the search for the remains of U.S. Marines who were killed in the World War II Battle of Tarawa, and it features a major co-sign: Kelsey Grammer narrates.
The film is a sequel to "Return to Tarawa: The Leon Cooper Story," which was narrated by Ed Harris. That documentary centered on Cooper, who at 93 is one of the last remaining survivors of the battle. Tarawa was a fortified Japanese compound in the Pacific (currently part of the Republic of Kiribati). During "Return," Cooper and the film crew discovered that the island is still littered with live ammunition.
"Until They Are Home," naturally, focuses on what comes next. In 2010, the Joint Pow/Mia Accounting Command (Jpac) team went back to Tarawa to recover the remains of Marines and bring them home.
The film is a sequel to "Return to Tarawa: The Leon Cooper Story," which was narrated by Ed Harris. That documentary centered on Cooper, who at 93 is one of the last remaining survivors of the battle. Tarawa was a fortified Japanese compound in the Pacific (currently part of the Republic of Kiribati). During "Return," Cooper and the film crew discovered that the island is still littered with live ammunition.
"Until They Are Home," naturally, focuses on what comes next. In 2010, the Joint Pow/Mia Accounting Command (Jpac) team went back to Tarawa to recover the remains of Marines and bring them home.
- 5/25/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
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