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starring: Gary Sinise, Diana Scarwid, Richard Dysart, Colm Feore, James Gammondirected by: Frank Pierson
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303908762
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6303908764
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Release Date: January 13, 1998
Running Time: 135 minutes
Sales Rank: 7108
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 09, 1995
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Gary Sinise is 'Give 'em Hell' Harry, a simple man of the people who became one of America's greatest presidents. Through victory in the second World War and the beginning of the Cold War, through the birth of the United Nations and his decision to drop the first atomic bomb, Harry Truman lived by the premise that 'the buck stops here.'
Amazon.com:
Harry S. Truman had a hard row to hoe as the 33rd president and he never enjoyed popularity while in office. Think about what occurred on Truman's watch: the bombing of Hiroshima, a nationwide railroad strike, the rise of the Southern States' Rights Party, integration of the armed forces, the ascendancy of McCarthyism, the early cold war, and finally the Korean Conflict and Truman's decision to fire General MacArthur. Few American presidents have been faced with more difficult and dangerous times than Truman. It wasn't until some 50 years later that Harry Truman, a farmer from Missouri, got his due appreciation in the history books. Truman follows the man from his beginnings as an artillery officer in WWI through his connections with Missouri's Pendergast political machine and onward to Washington. The always-excellent Gary Sinise is a perfect fit for the Truman character, having obviously studied the President's plainspoken Missouri twang and ramrod-straight bearing at great length. Diana Scarwid is also very good as Truman's long-suffering wife Bess; the film studies the relationship between the two in some depth, and also sheds light on the men who surrounded Truman in Washington. Truman's chief failing is that in its effort to detail 40 years of the man's life, certain historical events are given short shrift in order to fit them all in. Nonetheless, Sinise inhabits the character well; the scene where the President ruminates on dining alone in the White House (while Bess is back in Missouri) is a great, understated comment on the loneliness, isolation, and stress of the job. --Jerry Renshaw
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Interesting
I'm not worried about actors and directors. I want to know something new when I view a movie like this, and this was an eye opener!! It is a must see for all of us boys and girls who were raised in homes of FDR haters. Guess there aren't many left today. Not that it is about FDR, but it will open your eyes about Truman, who he was, and his wisdom which most under-estimated. You know a little old haberdasher.
Rating:  - Humble man who did great things!
This is the story of a humble man who, not of his own choosing, stubbernly was called upon to make one of the most serious decisions of any man: Drop the first nuclear weapons devised by man to save lives. The portrayal by Gary Sinse and others was excellent and noteworthy to see it again, and again!
Rating: - Fine Bio-pic
Other productions that have portrayed Harry Truman have presented him as a caricature. Such as the blustering image of him in the feature film "MacArthur" and the one man stage show "Give 'em hell, Harry" This fine tv film projects an air of dignity to a brave and determined man who was probably one of our greatest presidents.
Rating:  - A good, but incomplete portrait
Let me begin by saying that the acting is first class, and the film does a good job of capturing the basic spirit of Harry S. Truman. However, the filmaker makes a conscious decision not to examine any of the man's lesser qualities or any of his poor political decisisions. I wouldn't say it's propaganda or revisionist, but we are left with the film maker's view of Truman through rose colored glasses. (editorially, I add that a similar positively spinned view of our current pres would never fly past ... Read More
Rating: - Truman This is a Good DVD I took one star off for having no extra's
Truman was a good DVD. It does not go into detail about his personal life much beyond the surface in much of his early life. This story does show in pretty good detail those forces that shaped his life and how they would play out later in life when he was catipulted into the Presidency of the United States by Roosevelt's untimely death.
Truman was thrust into the presidency during the ebbing throws of world war. Even as the War World was ending and this Nations Manhattan Project ... Read More
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