From The Front To The Films: A World War II Podcast

Author Daniel Allen Butler Joins our Podcast to talk about his book "Field Marshal: The Life and Death of Erwin Rommel"

Emmy Award-Winning Actor Kyle Chandler Joins Us (Friday Night Lights, Bloodline, Game Night, Zero Dark Thirty, Argo, Catch 22), along with his wife, Kathryn and Army veteran Jeff Wells, to talk WWII, their new foundation helping veterans, Bill Belichick and of course, Friday Night Lights!

NY Times Best Selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Atkinson joins us to talk about D-Day and his incredible WWII Liberation Trilogy of work, An Army at Dawn, The Day of Battle and The Guns at Last Light.

Captain Dale Dye played Colonel Robert Sink in HBO's Band of Brothers and has also been seen in Saving Private Ryan, Platoon, and many other television shows and movies. Dale and his wife Julia also run Warriors Inc, where Dale trains actors for their roles in some of the world's biggest war films. It's been an amazing ride for this decorated veteran of Vietnam.

This episode of From the Front to the Films Zoom Podcast focuses on the 20th anniversary of the World War II film U571. The cast reunion featured U571 director Jonathan Mostow and actors Will Estes, Erik Palladino, Derk Cheetwood and Tom Guiry.

Actor David McCallum of The Great Escape, Colditz, Man from U.N.CL.E. and NCIS joins us.

Jon Seda portrayed "John Basilone" in HBO's series "The Pacific"

Podcast interview with Erik Jendresen, Supervising Producer for all 10 episodes of Band of Brothers, as well as Lead Writer and Co-Creator. 

Marcus Brotherton is a New York Times Best-Selling author who has written extensively about World War II. Several of his books have focused on the famous "Band of Brothers", as well as the war in the Pacific. Marcus recently collaborated with Gary Sinise on his book "Grateful American."

Peter Lion is the author of two books which chronicle two of the least-known stories of World War II that highlight not only the courage of soldiers but the compassion and humanity that can occur during times of intense combat.

D-Day as it happened with radio broadcasts, interviews and the sounds of one of the world's most epic moments. From the paratroopers to the infantry on Omaha and Utah Beach, these men were there and became part of history.

They were the first to land on Omaha Beach on D-Day and their stories are just as horrific as you would expect. They fought with the 29th Infantry Division and the First Infantry Division and lived to share their experiences so that history would not forget.  

Interview with author Nicholas Evan Sarantakes who wrote an incredible book about the making if the iconic film "Patton." "Making Patton" chronicles to almost two-decades-long effort to bring the movie to the silver screen. Did you know that George C. Scott was not the first choice to play General George Patton? or that the film was shot in Spain or that Omara Bradley and Patton were not as close...

Richard "Dick" Cole recently passed away. Dick was the last of World War II's famous Doolittle Raiders, the 80 flyers, aboard 16 B-25s, that left the USS Hornet on April 18, 1942, to drop bombs over Japan. The mission was payback for Pearl Harbor and a huge morale boost to an American public that had known nothing but defeat and loss prior to the Doolittle mission. It is with sadness that we say g...

Famous George C. Scott Opening Speech from the movie "Patton" (1972). Patton won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Scott won Best Actor for his portrayal of General Patton but declined to accept the award due to his lingering issues with the Oscar "process" in previous years.

Tim Gray interviews Auschwitz and Holocaust survivor Israel Arbeiter regarding his incredible story during some of the darkest days on World War II. An absolutely amazing story of resilience and courage.

President Ronald Reagan's Famous Normandy Speech: The Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion, D-Day 6/6/84. This famous speech was made at Pointe-du-Hoc in Normandy and focuses on the efforts of the 2nd Ranger Battalion to climb the 100-foot cliffs and take our 6 cannons that were supposed to be located on the Pointe.   NOTE: Speech begins about 16 seconds into the au...

A short segment where we hear from two B-17 crewmen about their experiences over Europe in World War II. Narrated by Dan Aykroyd.

Somebody hat to direct all that boat traffic on D-Day! The job fell to those aboard the Primary Control Ships, who had a huge job to do while under constant fire on June 6, 1944.

The NFL's only 6-time Super Bowl-winning head coach, The New England Patriots Bill Belichick, who grew up in Annapolis, Maryland, the home of the United States Naval Academy and whose own father served in World War II, gives his thoughts on the legacy of Pearl Harbor.

Follow 5 D-Day Veterans as they visit with Students in Normandy, France. The veterans are welcomed to local schools, near the locations in which they landed on June 6, 1944, and talk about their experiences. Narrated by Peter Kessler.