DVD
Divide and conquer & The Battle of Britain
Performers
Narrator, Walter Huston.
Publication Information
New York : GoodTimes Home Video Corp., c2000.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (ca. 109 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
The second two installments in Frank Capra's Why we fight series, these documentaries were made during World War II, using actual newsreel footage. Divide and conquer recounts the successive defeats of Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, and France by the seemingly invincible German army, as seen in dramatic footage from both sides of the battle. The Battle of Britain uses exclusive Army footage and captured Nazi film portray the indomitable spirit of the heroic Londoners during the blitz by the Luftwaffe, and to outline Hitler's six-point plan to annihilate England.
Notes
Originally produced as documentaries in 1943.
Contents
- Divide and conquer (54 min.)
- The Battle of Britain (52 min.).
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns.
- World War, 1939-1945 > Europe.
- World War, 1939-1945 > Germany.
- Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940.
- World War, 1939-1945 > Motion pictures and the war.
- World War, 1939-1945 > Propaganda.
- Motion pictures in propaganda > United States.
- Propaganda, American.
- United States > History > 1933-1945.