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

Why We Fight: Prelude to War

1942 · 52 minutes · Black & white

[FILM: Why We Fight: Prelude to War, 1942]

The first of seven films Frank Capra — the director of It’s a Wonderful Life — made for the US Army to explain the war to new soldiers. It won the Academy Award for best documentary. It is wartime propaganda, and fascinating as exactly that.

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

COLOUR46 min Report from the Aleutians1943 · John Huston / US Army

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