A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

©2010 A&E Television Networks. Content © 1999 Lou Reda Productions and A&E Television Networks In 1999, months before the 50th Anniversary of the start of the Korean War, The History Channel (now History) aired The Korean War: Fire and Ice, a four-part television series about a conflict most Americans have chosen to forget: the 1950-1953 struggle between the U.S.-led United Nations Command and the Soviet-supported North Korean/Chinese alliance for control of that divided Asian nation. Produced by Lou Reda and written by Rod Paschall, The Korean War: Fire and Ice mixes archival footage (both color and black-and-white) from the archives of several nations and 1990s interviews with historians, former diplomats, and U.S. Korean War veterans. Though much of the archival footage is combat footage, there are also shots of non-battle events, such as Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's 1949 meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung, the deliberations at the UN Headquarters in N...

© 2006 A&E Home Video  In 2006, back when A&E Networks'  History was still called The History Channel and occasionally broke from its increasingly lowbrow programming to air actual historically-derived content, it presented The Revolution , a 13-part documentary about the 26-year-long effort of the 13 American colonies to achieve independence from Great Britain and the birth of a new nation in the Western Hemisphere. Written by the miniseries' primary director, Alexander Emmert and Stephen Stept, The Revolution uses a blend of live-action re-enactments, illustrations, and documents from the period, animated battle maps, talking-head commentary by historians and military experts, and dramatic voice-overs to tell the complex and fascinating story of the creation of the United States. Co-directed by Emmert with executive producer and co-writer Peter Schnall (who also did many of the production-related tasks), The Revolution (also known as The American Revolution ) c...