Appointment in Tokyo - DVD

Appointment in Tokyo uses newsreels, staged re-enactments, and captured enemy footage to tell the story of General Douglas MacArthur's struggles in the Pacific Theater during World War II -- from his exile from the Philippines in 1942, to his triumphant return in 1944, to the eventual signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on the USS Missouri on September 1, 1945. Over 1,000 cameramen were employed to document such epochal even