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Know Your Enemy: Japan
🇯🇵 JapanFrank Capra-directed propaganda film produced at the onset of World War II depicting the United States' new enemy: Japan
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Why We Fight: The Battle of China
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sThe sixth film illustrates Japan's occupation of China, including Madame Chiang Kai-Shek's stirring address before congress, the rape of Naking, the great 2,000 mile migration, and Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers.
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The Fighting Lady
The 1940sPhotographed in Zones of Combat by Men of U.S. Navy — Oscar winner William Wyler directed this 1944 "newsdrama," narrated by Lieut. Robert Taylor, USNR (Bataan), and photographed in zones of combat by the U.S. Navy. The film follows one of the many new aircraft carriers built since Pearl Harbor, known as THE FIGHTING LADY in honor of all American carriers, as it goes into action against the Japanese in the Pacific Ocean in 1943. See the ship and its pilots undergo their baptism of fire, attacking the Japanese base on Marcus Island.
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Tunisian Victory
The 1940sDocumentary made by the U.S. Army Signal Corps after the North African campaign.
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Victory Through Air Power
The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sThis is a unique film in Disney Production's history. This film is essentially a propaganda film selling Major Alexander de Seversky's theories about the practical uses of long range strategic bombing. Using a combination of animation humorously telling about the development of air warfare, the film switches to the Major illustrating his ideas could win the war for the allies.
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Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain
England The 1940sExciting newsreel footage highlights this award-winning documentary of Britain's gallant stand against the encroaching Nazi horde. As the British people fight bravely, Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to begin the London Blitz in the hope of bringing England to her knees.
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The Silent Village
🇨🇿 Czechia The 1940sThe true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.
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My Japan
🇯🇵 JapanAn odd bit of WWII propaganda in which an obviously Caucasian actor, using a fake Japanese accent, talks about the beauty of his homeland and how "his" people are different (and superior) to naive American soldiers. According to the narrator of the film, a US invasion of Japan would not succeed due to the superior fighting power of the Japanese people who, if forced, would retreat from the island and take up refuge in caves on mainland China.
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Why We Fight: Prelude to War
The 1940sThe US government puts the finger on the United Nations. — 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. This film examines the differences between democratic and fascist states.
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Churchill's Island
England The 1940sThe people of Britain resist the German air force and navy with help from North America.
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London Can Take It!
England The 1940sA tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.
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The Lion Has Wings
The 1940sThis early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis.
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The Spanish Earth
🇪🇸 Spain The 1930sA propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War in support of the Republican government against the rebellion by Gen. Francisco Franco's forces who were backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. The film would have been seen by those making it as a documentary.
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Verdun: Visions of History
The 1910sA dramatized re-enactment and documentary of the Battle of Verdun as seen by both French and German soldiers, shot on site of the actual battle.
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Mons
🇫🇷 France The 1910sA reconstruction of the arrival of the British Army in France in August 1914, and of the retreat from Mons.
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Heroes All
The 1910sFilms shot by newsreel companies and army cameramen are featured to tell the story of what it was like for soldiers during World War I.
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The Battle of the Somme
The 1910sA documentary and propaganda film which shows the British Army's preparations for, and the early stages of, the battle of the Somme.
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