D-Day:
The Price of Freedom will air this summer on 116 APT
stations around the country
The
emotional documentary follows five American veterans
back to Normandy sixty-two years after D-Day. Now
in their 80's, the aging veterans find peace in knowing
their actions on June 6, 1944 have not been forgotten
by the French people. Other documentary film projects
featuring World War II veterans are also being planned.
PROVIDENCE, RI-- D-Day: The Price of Freedom,
a film co-produced by Tim Gray Media and Ocean State
Video, has been picked up by 116 American Public Television
stations for airing in the summer of 2007 and could
be broadcast on some of the nation's top PBS affiliates.
The
one-hour documentary film is scheduled for a May national
release on APT.
D-Day:
The Price of Freedom, has received very
positive reviews from around the country. The documentary
was written and produced by Tim Gray and filmed and
edited by Emmy award winning videographer Jim Karpeichik
(Ocean State Video). In Price of Freedom, five
American D-Day veterans returned to Normandy to talk
about their individual assignments in Operation Overlord,
the Normandy invasion of June 6, 1944.
The
documentary film has aired in New England on an NBC
television affiliate and RIPBS (WSBE). The film has
also been featured on several national independent
film websites.
D-Day:
The Price of Freedom has also been accepted into
the research archives of the National WWII and D-Day
Museum in New Orleans, LA. Bank of America is the
title sponsor of the D-Day project.
Fading
into history
Over
1,500 World War II veterans are passing away each
day in the United States. The goal of the films produced
by Tim Gray Media is to make sure the veterans' stories
are preserved for generations to come.
In
our documentaries, veterans agree to return to the
very places where they fought as young soldiers. For
many, the return provides some closure to events in
their life that were both horrific and heroic. It
also gives the soldiers a chance to kneel in front
of a White Cross or Star of David in the Normandy
American Cemetery and visit with a best buddy who
never made it home from the war.
It
is at these emotional times that veterans of WWII
recall most vividly their own experiences in battle;
the sights, the sounds and the smell of war. Without
capturing these scenes now, we risk losing them forever.
World War II was the defining event of the 20th Century
and we still feel its impact today.
