Why We Fight
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Why We Fight is a series of seven propaganda films produced by the US Department of War from 1942 to 1945, during World War II. It was originally written for American soldiers to make them support the
Intertitle for the seven-film series
Prelude to War depicts the Nazi propaganda machine.
Frank Capra cutting film in 1943
Frank Capra receiving the Distinguished Service Medal from U.S. Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall, 1945
Frank Capra
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Frank Russell Capra was an Italian-born American film director, producer, and screenwriter who was the creative force behind several major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Italy and
Why We Fight
…the United States' involvement in the war, but US President Franklin Roosevelt ordered distribution for public viewing. Academy Award-winning filmmaker Frank Capra, daunted but impressed and challenged by Leni Riefenstahl's 1935 propaganda film Triumph of the Will, worked in direct response. The series faced various…
Capra, c. 1930s
The Younger Generation (1929)
Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night (1934)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)