Opening credits: The forties.

Produced by ABC Video Enterprises, Inc. Presented by Video Collectibles Corp.

Date on program, c1980. Package design, c1990.

Videocassette version of a motion picture.

Executive producer, Jack Healy ; editor, Tom D'Onofrio.

Narrator, Larry [i.e. Lary] Lewman.

Uses archival photographs, sound recordings and film footage to explore world events, sports, life-styles, and achievements during 1940-1949. America mobilized for total war, bringing the fateful dawn of the atomic age. It was the decade of G.I. Joe, victory gardens, gas rationing, zoot suits and penny loafers. Includes discussion of the global conflict of World War II; the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the U.S. declaration of war; rations and shortages; the fight of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin to conquer Nazism; the Nazi concentration camps; Japanese-American internment camps; the death of FDR; Harry Truman; Hiroshima; radio; Hank Greenberg; Mao and Communism in China; Russia's bomb and America's bomb shelters; and the postwar spending spree in the U.S.

VHS format. Hi-fi mono.