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Why we fight. Disc 1, Prelude to war & the Nazis strike / producer, Frank Capra ; directors, Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak ; screenplay, Anatole Litvak, Anthony Veiler, Robert Heller.
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Collector series (GoodTimes Home Video (Firm))
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Causes.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Europe.
- World War, 1939-1945--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Japan.
- World War, 1939-1945--Italy.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns.
- World War, 1939-1945--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Motion pictures and the war.
- War and motion pictures.
- World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda.
- Propaganda.
- Motion pictures in propaganda.
- United States--History--1933-1945.
- United States.
- History.
- Motion pictures in propaganda--United States.
- Propaganda, American.
- Genre:
- War films.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Title on container and disc surface: World war II : why we fight
- Frank Capra's World War II
- Place of Publication:
- New York : GoodTimes Home Video Corp., 2000.
- System Details:
- DVD; Dolby digital mono; all regions; NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- all regions
- Summary:
- Parts one and two of a propaganda series of seven information films shown to the American G.I. in the 1940's. Originally produced by the United States government for the Morale Services Division which documents the causes and events leading up to World War II and exhorts Americans to support the war effort. Prelude to war: Recounts the Japanese incursion into Manchuria, the Italian conquest of Ethiopia, and the beginnings of the Nazi takeover in Eastern Europe. The Nazis strike: Documents the relentless advance of Germany's military machine, as Hitler's armies terrorize their victims with blitzkrieg tactics and spread through the Rhineland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland.
- Participant:
- Narrators: Walter Huston, Anthony Veiler.
- Credits:
- Editor, William Hornbeck ; music, Dimitri Tiomkin, Army Air Force Orchestra.
- Notes:
- Standard screen (1.33:1 aspect ratio).
- Contains:
- Prelude to war
- Nazis strike
- ISBN:
- 0766204952
- 0766204944
- OCLC:
- 49500418
- Publisher Number:
- 018713811134
- 018713830166 (set)
- 05-81110 GoodTimes Home Video
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