Journalisim meets propaganda. Our parents and grandparents did not have the advantages of modern technology like smart phones, internet, and cyber links, which give this generation instant news the way it is happening, raw, bold, and uncensured. But if you can filter the drumming dialogue and scope the images from the authentic news reel footage, you can get a pulse pounding vision of what it was like to be at the brink of devestation. I think the combination of scripted narative and actual war footage is an art form( yes, propaganda, I know) but you cannot deny the pure picture of the film itself, which shows war at its bare savagery.