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Why We Fight: Prelude to War

6.4 53 mins Documentary   War   1942
War Activities Committee of the Motion Pictures Industry   U.S. War Department  
Director(s): Frank Capra Anatole Litvak

Release Date: 27 Wed, May 1942

Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C. Marshall. It was made to convince American troops of the necessity of combating the Axis Powers during World War II. This film examines the differences between democratic and fascist states.

Casts of Why We Fight: Prelude to War

Walter Huston

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Max Schmeling

as Self - German paratrooper (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

as Self

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