Film · 1943

Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer

Name: Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
Director: Frank Capra
Genre: Documentary, War
Released: 1943-01-02

57 min · Directed by Frank Capra

Documentary War

7.018
ratings

The third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conquest of Western Europe in 1940.

Cast

Knox Manning

Narrator

Murray Alper

Bit Role

G

General Bergeret

Self - in Railway Carriage with Huntziger (archive footage)

Monte Blue

Bit Role

K

Karl Brandt

Self (with jubilant Hitler, to his right) (archive footage)

M

Maurice Brierre

Bit Role

Winston Churchill

Self - with de Gaulle and Giraud (archive footage)

Ann Codee

Bit Role

Richard Walther Darré

Self - Speech (archive footage)

Charles de Gaulle

Self - with Churchill and FDR (archive footage)

Walter Huston

Narrator

Crew

Director: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Producer: Gordon Hollingshead, Frank Capra
Writer: Roger Q. Denny, Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein
Editor: William Hornbeck, Doug Gould
Cinematography: Arthur L. Todd
Composer: William Lava

Details

Studios: War Activities Committee of the Motion Pictures Industry, U.S. War Department
Countries: United States of America
Languages: English
Release: January 2, 1943

Themes

world war ii

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