War Comes to America (1945)
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- 1h 10min
- Documentary, War
- 14 Jun 1945 (USA)
- Movie
Part VII of the "Why We Fight" series of wartime documentaries. This entry attempts to describe the factors leading up to America's entry into the Second World War.
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Dean Acheson | ... |
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General Bergeret | ... |
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Adolf A. Berle | ... |
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Arno Breker | ... |
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| Neville Chamberlain | ... |
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| Winston Churchill | ... |
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Galeazzo Ciano | ... |
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| Édouard Daladier | ... |
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Charles Edison | ... |
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| Francisco Franco | ... |
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| Joseph Goebbels | ... |
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| Hermann Göring | ... |
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| Rudolf Hess | ... |
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| Heinrich Himmler | ... |
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| Hirohito | ... |
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| Adolf Hitler | ... |
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| Cordell Hull | ... |
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Charles Huntziger | ... |
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| Walter Huston | ... |
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| Hiram Johnson | ... |
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| Wilhelm Keitel | ... |
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| Fritz Kuhn | ... |
Self (American Nazi leader, watches as heckler beaten) (archiveFootage)
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Saburo Kurusu | ... |
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Admiral Le Luc | ... |
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| Charles A. Lindbergh | ... |
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Viktor Lutze | ... |
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Andrew J. May | ... |
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| Edward R. Murrow | ... |
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| Benito Mussolini | ... |
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| Lloyd Nolan | ... |
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| Kichisaburo Nomura | ... |
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Léon Noël | ... |
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Gerald P. Nye | ... |
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Erich Raeder | ... |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... |
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| Haile Selassie | ... |
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| Albert Speer | ... |
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| Henry L. Stimson | ... |
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Elbert D. Thomas | ... |
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| Hideki Tôjô | ... |
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Paul von Hindenburg | ... |
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| Joachim von Ribbentrop | ... |
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| Wendell Willkie | ... |
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Directed by
| Frank Capra | ... | (uncredited) |
| Anatole Litvak | ... | (uncredited) |
Written by
| Julius J. Epstein | ... | () |
| Philip G. Epstein | ... | () |
| Adolf Hitler | ... | (book "Mein Kampf") |
| Emma Lazarus | ... | (poem "The New Colossus") (uncredited) |
| Anatole Litvak | ... | () |
| Anthony Veiller | ... | () |
Produced by
| Frank Capra | ... | producer |
Music by
| Dimitri Tiomkin | ... | (uncredited) |
Editing by
| William Hornbeck | ||
Music Department
| Hugo Friedhofer | ... | composer: stock music (uncredited) |
| Paul Marquardt | ... | orchestrator (uncredited) |
| Alfred Newman | ... | composer: stock music (uncredited) |
| Joseph Nussbaum | ... | orchestrator (uncredited) |
Production Companies
Distributors
- War Activities Committee of the Motion Pictures Industry (1945) (United States) (theatrical)
- RKO Radio Pictures (1945) (United States) (theatrical)
- Reel Media International (2004) (World-wide) (VHS)
- Reel Media International (2007) (World-wide)
- Alpha Video Distributors (United States) (DVD)
- Penteo Films S.L. (2018) (Spain) (restored)
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Storyline
| Plot Summary |
In this final installment of the "Why We Fight" propaganda series, the subject focuses on the United States of America. We learn of its good qualities and the things worth fighting for. With that established, we learn of the history of the United States' population shifting opinion towards siding with the Allies against the Axis until the attack on Pearl Harbour which brought America into full scale involvement in the war.
Written by Kenneth Chisholm |
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Did You Know?
| Trivia | In the year 2000, the United States Library of Congress mandated that this film (and the other six documentaries in the 'Why We Fight' series)were "culturally significant" and selected them for preservation in the National Film Registry. See more » |
| Goofs | Twice there appears an animated clip showing about a dozen fully-equipped US troops in gray silhouette marching briskly left to right over a background graphic; however, a close look shows the "soldiers" actually wearing narrow-brimmed office-worker-style civilian hats rather than army helmets. See more » |
| Movie Connections | Edited from The Negro Soldier (1944). See more » |
| Soundtracks | Rhapsody in Blue See more » |
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[the film explains the dire consequences for the United States of an Axis victory in Eurasia]
Narrator: German conquest of Europe and Africa would bring all their raw materials, plus their entire industrial development, under one control. Of the two billion people in the world, the Nazis would rule roughly one quarter, the 500 million people of Europe and Africa, forced into slavery to labor for Germany. German conquest of Russia would add the vast raw materials and the production facilities of another of the world's industrial areas, and of the world's people, another 200 million would be added to the Nazi labor pile. Japanese conquest of the Orient would pour into their factory the almost unlimited resources of that area, and of the peoples of the earth, a thousand million would come under their rule, slaves for their industrial machine. We in North and South America would be left with the raw materials of three-tenths of the earth's surface, against the Axis with the resources of seven-tenths. We would have one industrial region against their three industrial regions. We would have one-eighth of the world's population against their seven-eighths. If we, together with the other nations of North and South America, could mobilize 30 million fully equipped men, the Axis could mobilize 200 million. Thus, an Axis victory in Europe and Asia would leave us alone and virtually surrounded, facing enemies ten times stronger than ourselves. See more » |