The Pacific is a ten part movie which is based on the events of the U.S Marine corps operations in the Pacific Ocean during World War Two, involving many of their conflicts with the Japanese military forces. The film was produced by Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzmanin association with HBO Films, Playtone, Dreamworks, and Seven Network.

Much of the films content is presented as a conventional War film with little to comment on in terms of post-modernity. There are however several significant factors in which I believe the film can be seen as postmodern.
Firstly the form of the film can be taken in to account. The Pacific is a ten part film which is being aired on sky movies premiere. This can be considered unusual considering stereotypically films nowadays are premiered on the big screen and are shown for a period of time before being brought out on DVD and then eventually getting a television premiere which normally comes last in the case of The Pacific it seems that This process has been thrown out of the window as it has gone straight to TV for several reasons the main one being you don’t really want to have to sit through eight hours of film in a cinema.

Most films nowadays average at about 2 hours in total playing time. By the end of the series The Pacific will have accumulated a run time of nearly eight and ah half hours this shows a cross over between media forms as The Pacific can be considered a film as well as a television series.
Another factor which could be considered post modern is that the start of every episode there are interviews with real marines which actually served in the war, the purpose of this is to give an overview about what the episode is going to be about intending to create an impression about how accurate the production is. During this opening sequence we also see actual archive footage from the marines operations during World War 2. Cross over between film and documentary?