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War Comes to America

  • 1945
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 10m
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War Comes to America (1945)
DocumentaryWar

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.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.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.

  • Directors
    • Frank Capra
    • Anatole Litvak
  • Writers
    • Julius J. Epstein
    • Adolf Hitler
    • Anatole Litvak
  • Stars
    • Dean Acheson
    • General Bergeret
    • Adolf A. Berle
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    • IMDb RATING
    6.8/10
    912
    YOUR RATING
    • Directors
      • Frank Capra
      • Anatole Litvak
    • Writers
      • Julius J. Epstein
      • Adolf Hitler
      • Anatole Litvak
    • Stars
      • Dean Acheson
      • General Bergeret
      • Adolf A. Berle
    • 11User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win total

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    Dean Acheson
    Dean Acheson
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    General Bergeret
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Adolf A. Berle
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (as A.A. Berle)
    Arno Breker
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Neville Chamberlain
    Neville Chamberlain
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Winston Churchill
    Winston Churchill
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Galeazzo Ciano
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (as Galleazzo Ciano)
    Édouard Daladier
    Édouard Daladier
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Charles Edison
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Francisco Franco
    Francisco Franco
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Joseph Goebbels
    Joseph Goebbels
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (as Josef Goebbels)
    Hermann Göring
    Hermann Göring
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Rudolf Hess
    Rudolf Hess
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Heinrich Himmler
    Heinrich Himmler
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Hirohito
    Hirohito
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Adolf Hitler
    Adolf Hitler
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Cordell Hull
    Cordell Hull
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Charles Huntziger
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • Directors
      • Frank Capra
      • Anatole Litvak
    • Writers
      • Julius J. Epstein
      • Adolf Hitler
      • Anatole Litvak
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    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Quotes
      • [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.
    • Connections
      Edited from The Negro Soldier (1944)
    • Soundtracks
      Rhapsody in Blue
      (uncredited)
      Music by George Gershwin
      Played during the Modern America montage

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    Details

    • Release date
      • June 14, 1945 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Why We Fight, 7
    • Production company
      • U.S. Army Pictorial Services
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    Tech specs

    • Runtime
      • 1h 10m(70 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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