Once an Eagle (1976)

Directed by

E.W. Swackhamer

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 7 episodes

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The miniseries follows two soldiers through three decades of military service from World War I to after World War II. It shows their personal and professional struggles as their careers take different paths.

sprawlingseriousreflectiveintimatebittersweetmeasuredcharacter-driven

What happens

Once An Eagle is a 1976 nine-hour American television miniseries directed by Richard Michaels and E.W. Swackhamer. The picture was written by Peter S. Fischer and based on the 1968 Anton Myrer novel of the same name. The first and last installments of the seven-part series were each two-hour broadcasts, while the interim episodes were 60 minutes. The mini-series concerns the thirty year careers of two military men, from the outbreak of World War I to the aftermath of World War II. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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