Movies: U S War Department
- 1943
December 7th (1943)
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"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to beat back the Japanese reinforcements....
- 1943
Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain (1943)
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The fourth of Frank Capra's Why We Fight series of seven propaganda films, which made the case for fighting and winning the Second World War. It was released in 1943 and concentrated on the German bombardment of the United Kingdom in anticipation of ...
- 1943
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia (1943)
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The fifth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War....
- 1942
Prelude to War (1942)
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Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C. Marshall. It was made to convince American troops of the necessity of combating the Axis Powers during World War II. Th...
- 1943
Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike (1943)
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The second film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series. It introduces Germany as a nation whose aggressive ambitions began in 1863 with Otto von Bismarck and the Nazis as its latest incarnation....
- 1944
Why We Fight: The Battle of China (1944)
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The sixth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series illustrates Japan's occupation of China, including Madame Chiang Kai-Shek's stirring address before congress, the rape of Nanking, the great 2,000 mile migration, and Claire Chennaul...
- 1943
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer (1943)
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The third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conquest of Western Europe in 1940....
- 1945
Know Your Enemy: Japan (1945)
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Frank Capra-directed propaganda film produced during World War II depicting the United States' new enemy: Japan....
- 1946
Seeds of Destiny (1946)
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Oscar winning postwar propaganda film in support of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Strident but poignant, focusing on children. The film surveys the Nazi/Japanese atrocities, post-war devastation and the early relief eff...
- 1919
The End of the Road (1919)
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Childhood friends Mary Lee and Vera receive two different versions of the 'birds and the bees' from their mothers. Mary Lee gets the facts, while Vera gets a prudish fairytale version. Their lives separate after graduation, Mary Lee becomes a nurse w...
- 1944
It's Your War Too (1944)
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Documentary short film detailing the history of the American Women's Army Corps, the WACS. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, Academy War Film Collection, in 2009....
- 1944
Movies at War (1944)
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Government documentary short explaining the usage and distribution of feature films donated by the motion picture industry for viewing by American troops....
- 1945
Operation Titanic (1945)
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Operation Titanic (code name Frantic - 1944) in WWII. Western Allies planes on bombing missions (raids) over Germany shuttle between their bases in England resp. Italy and bases in Russia....