The narrator is Peter Coyote who is known for his grate narrator skills. Music by Matt Mariano supports this presentation and does not get in the way of the action or narration. This is a Rick Beyer film.
Unfortunately, this is in a sound bite format. A little teaser form one commenter to the next and back again, instead of letting one person at a time tell the whole tale. The information is fascinating. However, the presentation style is annoying.
I am surprised and pleased at the size and diversity of the interviewees:
Gen. Wesley Clark (ret) former NATO Commander
Pvt. Ed Biow Camouflage Unit
Pvt. Ned Harris Camouflage Unit
Lt. Dick Syracuse Sonic Unit
Roy Eichhorn US Army Historian
Sgt. Victor Dowd Camouflage Unit
Cpl. Jack Masey Camouflage Unit
Cpl. Arthur Shilstone Camouflage Unit
Lt. Gil Seltzer Camouflage Unit
Pvt. Joe Spence Camouflage Unit
Sgt. Jack McGlynn Sonic Unit
Pvt. Harold Flinn Sonic Unit
Cpl. Al Albetecht Sonic Unit
Sgt. Spike Berry Radio Unit
Sgt. Stan Nance Radio Unit
Lt. Bob Conrad Radio Unit
Lt. Bernie Mason Camouflage Unit
Lt. John Jarvie Camouflage Unit
Lt. John Walker Sonic Unit
Pvt. Bill Sayles Camouflage Unit
Watch them design and blow up tanks with air compressors.
See inflatable soldiers (like the co-pilot in the movie "Airplane")
Hear them doing something in the bushes.
Watch as they deceive with radio with over 100 operators.
What, not phony tank tracts?
Even counterfeit commanders.
Sometime this may backfire.
If you saw the movie Patton with George C. Scott, they did a smaller version of this in England. What is interesting is that Patton actually did use the ghost army in September 1944 near Metz.
One plus of this documentary is that they displayed the sketches made by the artists. The other plus was finding out how many became popular artists after the war.
Hopefully, this documentary will be done again without the sound bite format.