Documentary Review: 'American Experience: Battle of the Bulge: The Deadliest Battle of World War II'
American Experience - "Battle of the Bulge: The Deadliest B attle of World War II" Written by: Thomas Lennon and Mark Zwonitzer Directed by: Thomas Lennon Narrated by: David McCullough Date of Original Release: November 9, 1994 On November 9, 1994, over 300 member stations of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) aired Battle of the Bulge: The Deadliest Battle of World War II, a 90-minute long episode of WGBH Boston's American Experience documentary series. Written by Thomas Lennon and Mark Zwonitzer and directed by Lennon, it is a briskly-paced overview of the Ardennes Counter-Offensive, the biggest land battle of the Western Front in World War II and, as Charles B. MacDonald has dubbed it, the greatest single engagement in the history of the U.S. Army. Planned personally by Adolf Hitler in the late summer and early fall of 1944, the Ardennes Counter-Offensive - code-named by the Germans as Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein ("Operation Watch on the Rhine...