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on May 23 with the nationwide, one-night-only theatrical screening of The Cold Blue, an extraordinary new documentary that makes use of recently discovered battle footage and miraculous film restoration technology. The film is the astounding result of a three-year labor by documentarian Erik Nelson, whose four-decade career includes producing Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man, Discovery Channel's Unsolved History series and numerous World War II documentaries, including Anne Frank's Holocaust. After discovering largely unseen B-17 footage in both American and German archives, Nelson's groundbreaking documentary eventually drew support and contributions from late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch studio, sound design maestro David Hughes (Black Panther, Pirates of the Caribbean series), folk-rock legend Richard Thompson and, most importantly, nine B-17 crewmen, all now in their 90s

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Hogties said:

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Thanks for the HBO Go tip. Watched it last night. Those were beautiful airplanes and brave men. I had no idea that the 8th Air Force lost more men than did the entire Marine Corps in WWII (by a wide margin).

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AEK said:

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My grandfather reported to Tibenham the day of the Kassel Raid. Needless to say it was not the introduction to the unit he had hoped for.

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