Live from 1945

History's heaviest year, reported without knowing the ending.

Every day is the same date in 1945. A wartime radio correspondent reports the fronts and the home front in the clipped cadence of the era — Iwo Jima, a president's death, victory in Europe, a strange new weapon — never knowing the ending the year is racing toward. The hinge year of the American century, carried one day at a time. No setup required.