Finding Murry's "line" in a TV Series

The question remains:
As you watch, ask yourself what was "the line" of this series? What insight -- or insights -- made the show hang together as Burns and Novick researched the show? What were they looking for? (They discuss how they made the series in the trailer. They don't use the word "line," or at least I didn't notice it, but they are clearly ) What were the points of tension they focused on? How did they pursue the line? Please post your thoughts to your blog between now and Wednesday.

The goal of making a trailer is to show in the audience, in the quickest way possible, what to expect within that particular documentary. Burns and Novick broke the trailer up into different subsets so that they could focus on one main idea, give a brief, and then move onto the next. With this series "The War" there was so much information to be covered in a very short amount of time. The biggest obstacle was condensing the information and still having it all run smoothly. I believe that the "line" of this trailer came when one of the director/producers Ken Burns said, "...I see this film as a kind of great merger of a vast public archive...particularly the National archives which has so many of the treasures of what we have done and mesh that with the personal archives..."
I believe that this is the main point throughout the trailer because it all began with looking for the right information to make the film. With the use of the national and personal archives they successfully had hundreds and hundreds of film hours and thousands of pictures. By taking all this information and compiling it into only 14 hours took a lot of time and energy for each person involved, which was in turn the focus of the trailer. When they showed the clip of how they made this series we got a glimpse into the director/producers experience while making this film. The best part about this series is that almost 98% of it is all real video and pictures donated by the people who had first hand experiences during this time. That is the point of the series and that is what I believe most people should focus on. It is not just a movie about that time in history but it is the first hand accounts of many people and their personal experiences during WWII. By presenting this series in a way that is not acted out but instead pieced together but authentic film makes this particular series unique and unlike any other released.