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Prelude to War

Episode number 1 of Series “Why we fight”. First in a series of documentaries made to acquaint soldiers with the causes and events leading up to the U.S.A.’s entry into World War II. This episode concentrates on the threat posed by the rise of German/Italian fascism and Japanese imperialism to world freedom. Narrated by John Huston. Suitable for middle and upper secondary levels.

Credits

Directed by
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Written by
Albert Maltz, Anthony Veiller
Cast
Adolf Hitler, Paul von Hindenburg, Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Benito Mussolini, Haile Selassie I, Heinrich Himmler, Hirohito, Joseph Goebbels, Robert Ley, Hermann Göring, Alfred Rosenberg, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Richard Walther Darré, Otto Dietrich, Fritz Reinhardt, Hans Frank …
Produced by
Frank Capra
Cinematography
Robert J. Flaherty
Music
Cyril J. Mockridge, Alfred Newman, Leigh Harline, Arthur Lange, David Raksin, Hugo Friedhofer
Edited by
William Hornbeck

Copyright

Copyright status (Wikidata): public domain

More in Why We Fight Series

  1. Prelude to War 1942
  2. Battle of Britain 1943
  3. Desert Victory 1943
  4. Divide and Conquer 1943
  5. Divide and conquer. 1943
  6. The Nazis Strike 1943
  7. Battle of China 1944
  8. NORMANDY INVASION 1944
  9. The Battle of China 1944
  10. The Battle of Russia 1944
  11. War Comes to America 1945
  12. War Comes to America 1945
  13. The Stilwell Road 1949
  14. The Nazi Strike 1979

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Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title
  2. Wikidata · Q1144659 ↗ — copyright
  3. 16mm Filmography editors — year, creator, length, format, color, sound, country, genre, description, credits, catalog record, video

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