DISC 1
The Burning Ballet. Running time 80 minutes/ Slide show of 100 USN Fire photos from July 29, 1967
DISC 2
USN Training film "Trial By Fire," USN 20 minutes/The Construction of the USS Forrestal CVA-59 USN 1956, 21 minutes/Unedited Plat Camera Footage from July 29, 1967, 40 minutes/4 Universal Newsreel Shorts on The Forrestal
DISC 3
The Soundtrack CD
Features all the songs from the film.
USS Forrestal Theme, Worried Medley, Going Home on the Givin' In Train, No Time For Love, Kingsport Town, Bone's Retreat, Flightdeck, Roll On Buddy, Blow Boys Blow, Body Count, Old Joe Clark, The Wind That Shook the Barley, He Was A Friend of Mine, Brownshoe Sailor, I'm Going Home On the Morning Train
A Biographica Film ©2008
Producer and Director JEREL JONES
Assistant Producer and Editor CARL GUSTAFSON
Original Music Produced by DAVE VERGAUWEN
Additional music selections provided by THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS |
This 40th Anniversary set relives one of wartime's most horrific stories of sacrifice, heroism, and daring: the 13 hours on July 29, 1967 that plunged 5,000 men aboard the super aircraft carrier USS Forrestal into a fiery hell. Using intimate personal accounts never before made public, Biographica reveals how these young men's lives were forged that day in a crucible of exploding bombs, flaming jet fuel, and amazing sacrifice that claimed 134 sailors. More than a stirring meditation on how ordinary men summon heroic strength, The Burning Ballet takes you to the edge of the catastrophe as you peer into the maw of this man-made hell.