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Winning Your Wings
Starring Jimmy Stewart, this recruitment film shows jobs, training and education provided to men between the ages of 18 and 26 who enlist in the U.S. Air Force. Details the various duties involved among the tiers of cadets, lieutenants and captains.…
Women at War
Explores the role of women in the war effort. Shows British women caring for evacuee children, working in the land army, as ambulance drivers and auto mechanics, in defense factories, ferrying planes for the R.A.F., and operating rest centers.
Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike
The second film in Frank Capra’s "Why We Fight" series. Documents the relentless advance of Germany's military machine, as Hitler's armies attack with blitzkrieg tactics and spread through the Rhineland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. …
Price of Freedom
This film "outlines the role that industry is playing in our war effort. Production of munitions and the operation of the payroll withdrawal plan for War Bonds are among the subjects treated." ("Free Film Reviews", Movie Makers, January, 1943, 34.)…
The World at War
The U.S. war film "The World at War" is curated from newsreels and "enemy films" in custody of the U.S and includes narration and intertitles contextualizing the history of how WWII developed. "This feature length picture produced by the Office of…
The United States Coast Guard Song: Semper Paratus ; The Army Air Corps Song
This reel contains one excerpt each from the films U.S. News Review #3 and U.S. News Review #5. The Coast Guard song comes from #3. It depicts a new recruit in the Coast Guard undergoing training including tying knots, medical safety, rowing, and…
Salvage
Donald Nelson, head of the War Production Board, discusses the need for every American man, woman, and child to save and salvage metals, fats, and rubber. Nelson argues that the total way being waged against the Axis nations demands all Americans…
Report from Russia
A film intended to show U.S. audiences the lives of their allied civilian counterparts in Russia. Shows the defense of Moscow during air raids, Soviet war bond drives, agricultural and industrial productivity. Emphasizes the role of women in the…
U.S. News Review: Issue No. 2
Newsreel consisting of five short subjects. "Survey Finds Much Travel Unnecessary": narration states "You can help win the war by staying home," explaining that civilian travel contributes to delays and overburdening of rail and bus lines essential…
The Thousand Days
"The Thousand Days" was the first Canadian-produced film to be given distribution through the U.S. Office of War Information during WWII (Showmen's Trade Review, 1943, 30). The film is a dramatic chronological review of WWII which portrays the…