Bob Hope is mostly associated with comedy, but this documentary shows off the more serious side of Hope’s personality. As narrator, he takes us from the end of the 1930’s, and the conclusion of the Great Depression, to the end of World War II, and through the years of peace and normalcy that followed. There’s a certain wistful sadness in this glimpse of then-recent American history, as we see images of thousands of soldiers and sailors coming home on the decks of aircraft carriers, and then the scenes of parents watching their children sailing off to serve in Korea a few years later.