14 anniversary, will also air on the Discovery Channel on Labor Day weekend, which is closer to the Sep. But more than that, it is a film about loss and sacrifice, which you hear in the voices of the two dozen former soldiers, ranging in age from their early 90s to 101, who tell the story.It’s hard to say that any WWII film can feel fresh after decades of documentation, but “Apocalypse ’45” finds a way to trade in the typical war-doc toolkit for something more personal and more striking.Also Read: Is 'Greyhound' Based on a True Story?The film, which is being released in some theaters (and virtual theaters) on the Aug. 14, 1945, exactly 75 years before the release of “Apocalypse ’45,” Erik Nelson’s examination of the war in the Pacific in the words and film footage of the men who were there.But as that foreboding title suggests, you wouldn’t use a word like “celebrated” to refer to “Apocalypse ’45.” The documentary is a tribute to the men who fought, but it’s also an elegy for those who were lost, and it doesn’t evade questions about the reverberations that linger from the use of the two atomic bombs that helped end the war.In some ways, it is a film about victory, illustrated with vivid, restored footage that was shot during the war but has largely sat unseen in the National Archives since then. The United States celebrated the end of World War II with Victory in Japan Day on Aug.
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