The line, as I see it, for the war is people. There is conflict between what people know from text books (and a multitude of Tom Hanks films), and what really happened to people in the war.
This TV series is not about telling the facts and figures of the war; this series is about life for the average person in the war. This goes from men serving, mothers, daughters, sons, sisters, brothers. This film is telling the experience, not the event.
This is what the line is. This is how the story will unfold.
The creators must have known what the line was before they created it, because of how they got their information. They got all their footage, stories, and pictures from national archives, but also from people! They put ads in newspapers asking for people's pictures, film, medals, and stories. Then they honed it down to what they wanted to use--what they could use. This film expressed the war from the bottom up, so the creation had to also be from the bottom up. There were not war diaries from generals. There were pictures from families.
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