it was something that john huston invented in. e "the battle , he surprised people by leaving it in the movie. realness,n understood roughness, rawness, imperfection could be taken by audiences as a sign of truth. it -- fakedhe fixed it with afaked powerful understanding of what he felt more really looks like. you cannot watch san pietro anymore and take it as truth. i went to the national archives and washed the outtakes -- watched the outtakes. he systematically discarded anything that looked to clean, too perfect, too hollywood. that is a mark of a very smart filmmaker and someone who really understood that war movies were going to have to look different than they had looked until that point. as a document of film making history, i think it is fascinating. a a word document -- as document the links to which the army would go, including stretching the truth, it is an important part of america's war so making history. >> john huston's. or is the award-winning actress angelica huston. daughter isston's the award-winning actress ang

john huston it is the fascinating look at hollywood and rolled for to to document what went on to motivate people. with the brilliant artist to literally went to war. with of a tax law of the of violent with the film the classic documentary about the b-17 and he lost his hearing because of his service. it is a fascinating portrait with a degree of reality of the war. not only a fascinating history but with a significant to inequality of wealth to deal with some of the issues in the role of cooperation but the interesting thing is the contrast. we respected each other immensely. but different temperaments it plays out there a significant contribution not just the intellect but the temperament. to fascinating characters. but they're both fascinating figures >>? you do for a living? why are you writing books about security? >> when the us stock market collapsed my clients were losing money and i want to understand why source started to dig into it and i found financial terrorism for those that connected to the pentagon and the fbi said was a contractor doing research who found a pint of a com

and then after the war, five of these directors, john huston john ford willie weiler frank capper and george stevens had gone to war as documentarians and came home and made different types of films. one of my favorites is a film called "battleground." it was about the battle of the bulge with van johnson, members of the squad died others deserted. it was the reality and the dialogue that changed it. "12 o'clock high." there were a lot of wonderful films that came along and that captured the awful underside of war as well. but "private ryan," which i've always thought should have won the academy award, in that opening sequence captured it. >> you're correct. it should have won the academy award. and as nearly authentic as it is, the first opening scenes the carnage, the higgins boats doors open the onslaught, the fuselage of machine gunfire, in covering wars it would be difficult for any film -- i'm sure you'd agree with me -- to capture the noise of war. >> the noise. even small wars. >> the horror of war. >> they all say the same thing. you couldn't hear anything. and you could hear

directors you could possibly imagine in the history of film, george stevens, jr., william wyler, john huston ford, and frank capra. these men went to war. they not only went to war, it changed their lives and it changed the way that we see movies. >> reporter: five of hollywood's finest directors all at the top of their game. john ford, john huston, william wyler, frank capra, and george stevens. >> these guys were artists, so they wanted to make great movies. they were patriots, so they wanted to serve their country, and just as men, they wanted to tell the truth. >> reporter: filmmaker george stevens, jr. remembers when his father signed up to serve. >> he saw the triumph of the will, the film about nuremberg. and the next day he arranged to go in the army. >> reporter: but it was a discovery that stevens made in his father's archive almost 40 years ago that would change forever how we view d-day and the war in europe. some old rolls of film perfectly preserved. >> went and sat by myself in the screening room and up on the screen came this blue sky, ships, barrage balloons in the sky, and

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john mitchell sabotaged the n.r. more peace talks in order to win the one nine hundred sixty eight elections and an oral history released by the national archives nixon white house aide tom charles huston elaborated on the president's involvement he said over the years as i've studied it i've concluded that there was no doubt that nixon what was would have been directly involved that it's not something that anybody would have undertaken on their own huston created a report under orders from the nixon white house to look into allegations that president lyndon johnson had bugged the nixon campaign and holt's of the bombing of north vietnam all in an effort to fuel peace talks and orchestrate a quote october surprise to help the democratic candidate hubert humphrey win the election report concluded that not only was l.b.j.'s white house guilty of bugging the nixon campaign but then nixon and mitchell played an active role in the railing a peace summit in paris by promising south vietnam better terms if they had heard the peace talks nixon's obstructions sparked president johnson to accuse nixon of treason to republican senator everett dirksen of illinois in this private recording take a l