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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. …

"War on Wheels" is described as a confidential industrial film bulletin from Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson to the those involved in the production of tanks. "Directed principally to the men and women of automotive industries to show them the…

The twelfth issue of a series of compilation films from the U.S. War Office includes four shorts. Weapon of War from the Army Pictorial Services Signal Corps’ First Motion Picture Unit: uses animation featuring the voice talents of Mel Blanc to…

This 1945 film intended for U.S. civilian audiences uses violent battlefield footage from the fall of 1944 to shame people back home who considered the war over and were returning to a pre-war lifestyle. Scenes show the liberation of Ardennes, France…

This film focuses on the many aspects of the wartime production and supply dissemination "chain", from creating goods to navigating the dangerous delivery of shipments. "A Nazi submarine 'wolf pack' racing to intercept a convoy carrying urgently…

The true story of the massacre of Lidice, a small Czech village, by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales. The film brings home the horrors of the German massacred by relocating it to a tradtional mining village in the British isles. The…