True whispers [videorecording] : the story of the Navajo code talkers / produced by Gale Anne Hurd ; written, produced and directed by Valerie Red-Horse ; produced by Valhalla Motion Pictures in association with the Independent Television Service.

0793693896
9780793693894

[S.l.] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, c2007.

English

Closed-captioned.

1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

D810 .C88 T78 2007

TWSN601 PBS Home Video

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.

Originally produced 2002.
Narrator: William H. Macy.

Edited by Bryce Button with Jamie Wallace; director of photography, Bill Sheehy; music, Peter Wyoming Bender, Aaron White, Ramilla Cody.

DVD, NTSC, full screen version, stereo.

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