PXDCO Reviews (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
Click Here to download full episode The nation’s highest military honor is awarded for heroism in battle, but as Roger Sherman, producer of this new documentary, observes, every Medal of Honor recipient he’s met has denied being a hero. You be the judge. The film traces the medal’s history back to the Civil War and profiles [...]
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
With the election over, the TV schedule returns to some semblance of normal. But expect the networks to break into news programming as events dictate - we do, after all, have a president-elect.AMERICAN PBS takes a look at those who have received one of the nation's highest awards in Medal of Honor, a documentary co-produced by ' Florentine Films.Produced and directed by Roger Sherman,...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
... program premieres tonight on PBS stations.With interviews and vintage images, producer-director Roger Sherman traces the history of the medal from its creation during the Civil War through the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The result renders honors where they are due without glossing over some dark spots in the medal's history: the profligate distribution in the Civil War...
