The battle for Midway
By: produced & directed by Brian Berger and Peter Schnall ; writer, Donovan Reiff ; a Partisan Pictures/Odyssey Corporation production for National Geographic Television
Contributors: Partisan Pictures; Odyssey Corporation; National Geographic Television; National Geographic Society (U.S.); Warner Home Video (Firm)
Edition: Standard [ver.]
Series: The ultimate National Geographic DVD collection
Publisher: distributed by Warner Home Video
Published: 2000
Place of publication: [Burbank, CA]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 82
Subjects: Midway, Battle of, 1942; World War, 1939-1945; American Naval operations; Underwater exploration; Yorktown (Aircraft carrier : CV-5)
Description: Dr. Robert Ballard leads a team of experts and four World War II veterans to Midway Island where the U.S. and Japan fought one of the fiercest battles of the war. They're in a race against time to find at least one of the downed aircraft carriers including the U.S.S. Yorktown.
Notes: Standard version presented in a format preserving the aspect ratio of its original television exhibition.

Videodisc release of the 1999 production of National Geograhic Television.

Special features include: Bonus program Combat cameramen ; photo gallery ; interactive battle map and time line ; diagram and statistics of U.S. and Japanese battle forces.

Cinematographer, Peter Schnall ; editor, Rob Kuhns ; narrator, Peter Coyote ; music, Michael Whalen.

DVD, Dolby digital English surround 5.1

System requirements: Windows 95 or higher with DVD-ROM drive. Enhanced DVD-ROM features will not work on a Macintosh computer.

Closed-captioned.
Table of contents: title: The lonely outpost; title: Back to Pearl; title: The search begins; title: Steaming for Midway; title: Equipment trouble; title: Waiting for battle; title: The Japanese attack; title: Shot to pieces; title: Finding the Kaga; title: Ambush; title: Japanese disaster; title: Comrades remembered; title: Yorktown is hit; title: The ship is found.