Educational Media Reviews Online

This production, which is also available on VHS, concerns the half-century long search of Bob Dumas for his brother Roger, both Koren War veterans, and is based on Bob’s book “The Day the Eagle Cried: an epic journey of brotherly love.” Roger was captured by the Chinese on 4 November, 1950 and was one of some 8,000 declared “missing, presumed dead” in 1954. Using newsreel footage as well as talking head interviews with, among others, Senator Bob Smith (NH) and former Representative Bob Dornan (CA), we are presented with the unsettling fact that American POWs were left behind in Korea and that some of them were transferred to Communist China and the Soviet Union. The government has known this for decades, though it has publicly denied it. This is technically a superb production with (on the DVD) a number of nice special features including: scenes not included in the theatrical release, a director’s statement, and classroom resources among others. Sound and picture quality are excellent and the background music skillfully adds to the somber and sober tone of this production.