Recommended movie series: Ken Burns: The War (set of 7 movies on WWII and 4 U.S. towns, Netflix Instant)

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It’s very, very well done. It helps me to better understand my parents and their generation. It has a lot of combat footage, much of not shown to the U.S. public during World War II. There are some astounding statistics in this series. (I’ve watched 3 of the 7 segments, each running about 2 hrs.)

It’s gotten a 9.1 out of 10 on IMDB:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0996994/

which is the highest rating I think I’ve ever seen there.

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Movie recommendation: ”Cat Ballou”, listed by AFI in their top 10 Westerns ever (very funny, Lee Marvin got Best Actor Oscar for his 2 roles)

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This is a classic I hadn’t watched until last night, when I watched it on DVD from Netflix, enjoying also the featurette. This movie gave actor Lee Marvin star status.

I’d seen this photo from the movie before. What I didn’t know until I read about the film on IMDB last night is that it’s very unnatural for a horse to cross its legs. The director pressured the horse trainer to make the horse do this, which he did after 1 hour with sugar cubes(!)