Why We Fight: Prelude to War (1942)
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
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Directed by: Frank Capra
Overview
The fifth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.
Why We Fight
Review (1)
CinemaSerf (Rated: 7)
For some reason, I always felt that this front of WWII was always the most horrendous, and this two-parter goes some way to poignantly illustrating that. Using a combination of animated maps and plenty of wartime newsreel, it takes us into the heart of the Soviet Union as the encroaching Nazis crush...
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