The War File: Pearl Harbor

As an episode of the war-themed television documentary program Battlefield, War File: Battlefield - Pearl Harbor hearkens back to the fateful day of December 7, 1941 - and the morning on which the Japanese caught the American people off-guard by staging the single most brutal assault against U.S. civilians prior to September 11th. The program then recounts how America - in the process - found itself inexorably pulled away from its longstanding policy of isolationism and into a firestorm of tumult that helped the country extinguish the encroaching threats of fascism and imperialism. This documentary profiles the global leaders responsible for the initial attack and America's series of counter-assaults, charts the military strategies inherent in the Pearl Harbor itself and discusses the seldom-mentioned fact that Pearl Harbor did scarcely any damage to U.S. aircraft carriers - while ironically dealing a fatal blow, in the long run, to the Axis Powers.