True whispers
Subtitle: the story of the Navajo code talkers
By: produced by Valhalla Motion Pictures in association with the Independent Television Service ; produced by Gale Anne Hurd, Valerie Red-Horse ; written and directed by Valerie Red-Horse
Contributors: Macy, William H., 1950-; Valhalla Motion Pictures; Independent Television Service; PBS Home Video
Publisher: Distributed by PBS Home Video
Published: 2007
Place of publication: [S.l.]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9780793693894
Subjects: Indian Participation; World War, 1939-1945; Cryptography; Navajo code talkers; Navajo language; Navajo Indians; United States. Marine Corps; United States
Description: Explores from the Native point of view the complex story of the role that the Native American code talkers and the Navajo language played in secret communications during World War II. No cryptography system proved as effective during the war as did the use of Navajo code talkers using their tribal language to transmit military communiques. Countless American lives were saved because of the service of these brave young Native American Marines.
Notes: Originally produced 2002.

Edited by Bryce Button with Jamie Wallace ; director of photography, Bill Sheehy ; music, Peter Wyoming Bender, Aaron White, Ramilla Cody.

Narrator: William H. Macy.

Not rated.

DVD, full screen; stereo., NTSC.

Closed-captioned.