Movies: War Activities Committee Of The Motion Pictures Industry
- 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...
- 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....
- 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....
- 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 ...
- 1945
That Justice Be Done (1945)
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Newsreel footage from both sides of World War II make a case for convicting Nazi war criminals....
- 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....
- 1944
The Fighting Generation (1944)
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A 1944 propaganda short film produced for the U.S. Treasury Department and intended to boost war bond sales, directed by an uncredited Alfred Hitchcock and starring Jennifer Jones as a nurse's aide. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, from the Ac...
- 1944
A Message of Importance (1944)
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In the final push of World War II, with Germany and Japan on the ropes, Eddie Bracken urges the American people to buy more war bonds....
- 1945
War Comes to America (1945)
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The seventh and final film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight World War II propaganda film series. This entry attempts to describe the factors leading up to America's entry into the Second World War....