Frank Capra's WWII: Why We Fight - The Complete Series
The Complete Series
This includes all seven documentaries made during World War II, using actual newsreel footage, by three Oscar winners: producer-director Frank Capra (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take It With You) of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, composer Dimitri Tiomkin (High Noon, The High and the Mighty, The Old Man and the Sea) and actor-narrator Walter Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre).
Includes:
Prelude To War/The Nazis Strike
Divide And Conquer/The Battle Of Britain
The Battle Of Russia
The Battle Of China/War Comes To America
Member Reviews
Worth watching. - heatherc
This is definitely an interesting series. You get a real feel for the propaganda that was being turned out during the second world war. Given the information we get these days about the Iraq war (and the lack of information about the genocide in Darfur), it makes for a good study on the power of media on public opinion.
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Worth watching. - heatherc
This is definitely an interesting series. You get a real feel for the propaganda that was being turned out during the second world war. Given the information we get these days about the Iraq war (and the lack of information about the genocide in Darfur), it ...