A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin (USA)

(40 min; 2005; English)
Director: Eric Simonson 

Recipient of the Oscar Award for Best Documentary, Short Subjects, Academy Awards, 2006

On the evening of VE Day, May 8, 1945, Norman Corwin, known as the ''poet laureate of radio drama,'' presented a radio programme that galvanized and electrified the nation. The broadcast, ''On a Note of Triumph,'' was a moment that would mark the end of a long national struggle, and, in another sense, set a new standard for the art of radio drama. Featuring interviews with Robert Altman, Norman Lear, Studs Terkel and Walter Cronkite, A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin examines the greatest radio presentation in the history of the medium and shows how it remains eerily prescient in light of current events.