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The Screening Room / Why We Fight & the Hollywood directors’ war

With the Marines at Tarawa

1944 · 20 minutes · Colour

[FILM: With the Marines at Tarawa, 1944]

Combat cameramen in colour on a tiny Pacific atoll during one of the bloodiest battles of the war. It won an Academy Award, and its frankness shocked audiences at home.

Streaming from the Internet Archive. See the original item, downloads and licence ↗

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B&W56 min Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer1943 · Frank Capra / US Army

B&W52 min Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain1943 · Frank Capra / US Army

B&W35 min Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia (Part 1)1943 · Frank Capra / US Army

B&W62 min Why We Fight: The Battle of China1944 · Frank Capra / US Army

B&W65 min Why We Fight: War Comes to America1945 · Frank Capra / US Army

B&W82 min December 7th (long version)1943 · John Ford & Gregg Toland / US Navy

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