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True whispers : the story of the Navajo code talkers

DVD

2007

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Title:	True whispers : the story of the Navajo code talkers / produced by Valhalla Motion Pictures in association with the Independent Television Service ; produced by Gale Anne Hurd, Valerie Red-Horse ; written and directed by Valerie Red-Horse.
Call Number:	940.5 T DVD
Publisher, Date:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, [2007] ©2007
Description:	1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. digital optical NTSC video file DVD video
Summary:	Explores from the Native point of view the complex story of the role that the Native American code talkers and the Navajo language played in secret communications during World War II. No cryptography system proved as effective during the war as did the use of Navajo code talkers using their tribal language to transmit military communiques. Countless American lives were saved because of the service of these brave young Native American Marines.
Target Audience Note:	Not rated.
Subjects:	United States. Marine Corps -- Participation, Indian. World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography. World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Indigenous. Navajo code talkers. Navajo language. Navajo. Closed caption DVDs.
Genre:	Documentary television programs. Television programs for the hearing impaired.
Other Author:	Hurd, Gale Anne. Red-Horse, Valerie. Macy, William H., 1950- Valhalla Motion Pictures. Independent Television Service. PBS Home Video.
Notes:	Originally produced 2002. Edited by Bryce Button with Jamie Wallace ; director of photography, Bill Sheehy ; music, Peter Wyoming Bender, Aaron White, Ramilla Cody. Narrator: William H. Macy. DVD, full screen; stereo., NTSC. Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
ISBN:	9780793693894 0793693896

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