For Immediate Release
National
memorial joins forces with
filmmakers
The National
Infantry Museum Foundation at Fort Benning, Ga., home of a powerful tribute to
U.S. infantrymen through the ages, and Livingbattlefield, producers of the groundbreaking World
War II film trilogy, The American Road to
Victory, have partnered to further their shared mission of keeping military
history alive.
The museum,
located outside one of the Army's major recruit training facilities, has become
a sponsor of the World War II film trilogy, which has aired more than 1,200
times on PBS affiliates nationwide.
"We knew,
after screening one of the films in our theater on Veterans Day, that we wanted
to be a part of this," said foundation president Ben Williams. "The
films represent a great example of everything we stand for -- real history for
families. "
"This is
such an honor for us", said Heidi Lanni, Livingbattlefield’s CEO and wife
of series director Richard Lanni. "Receiving support from such an
important national institution tells us that our decision to work outside the
box of traditional war documentaries -- to look at war from a foxhole level --
was the right one to make.”
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| Foundation President, Ben Williams & film director | Lanni |
The films, which
will continue to air nationally, take the form of battlefield tours. Shot in real
time, in the exact locations, they are underpinned by powerful veterans'
testimonies, graphics and re-enactments. Presenting the series is colorful
front man, Ellwood von Seibold, one of Europe’s leading battlefield guides and
an honorary officer in the U.S. Army.
Series viewers
get the opportunity to travel along with Ellwood in his 1943 Dodge command car
from the blood-soaked beaches of Normandy, through the killing fields of
Holland, to the freezing forests of the Bulge.
Many veterans featured in the series passed through Fort Benning during WWII.
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Media contacts:
Ben
Williams: bwilliams@nationalinfantryfoundation.org
Marty Callaghan: marty@livingbattlefield.org
Websites:
National
Infantry Museum http://www.nationalinfantrymuseum.com
The
American Road to Victory http://www.livingbattlefield.org
