World War II Films

- Salute to the Navy!
- United States Navy; Warships--United States; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American;
- Asserts that two years after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. has the world's greatest navy. Features many of the navy's ships and other equipment, including destroyers for convoy and battle, cruisers, the "battlewagon," P.T. boats (motor torpedo boats),...
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- Fleet That Came to Stay, The
- United States; Navy--History--World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Ryukyu--Okinawa Island; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Japan--Okinawa Island
- Explains the invasion of Okinawa from the U.S. Navy point of view and illustrates the operation by scenes of the combat. Silent film with English intertitles.
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- We Said We'd Come Back
- United States. Navy--History--World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American
- Portrays the power of the U.S. Navy during World War II.
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- Voyage to Recovery
- United States. Navy; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945--Finance
- Wounded Americans, back from battlefields and task forces all over the world, gave rise to the Navy's most important postwar mission--get them well and send them home.
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- U.S. Marines capture Iwo Jima!
- Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945
- Footage of the Battle for Iwo Jima and the heavily-defended Mt. Suribachi as filmed by U.S. Navy and Marine Corps cameramen. World War II documentary footage showing General Douglas MacArthur and Allied troops making a surprise landing at Luzon in...
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- D-Day Minus One
- United States. Army--Airborne troops; United States. Army. Airborne Division, 82nd; United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st; United States. Navy; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front
- A record of the operations of the U.S. 82nd and 1O1st Airborne Divisions in the 1944 invasion of France, and of paratroops, gliders, and troop carriers landing in France a day prior to the main invasion.
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- News Parade of the Year 1945
- Newsreels; World War, 1939-1945
- A Showcase of news events for the year 1945. Segments include: NOW IT CAN BE SEEN! BRITISH BATTLESHIP BOMBED!, HITLER'S V2 BOMB! Exposed by Allies, MILLIONS MOURN ROOSEVELT: Harry S. Truman Succeeds to U.S. Presidency, FINAL BATTLE IN EUROPE!,...
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- Peace comes to America
- World War, 1939-1945--Peace; World War, 1939-1945--Influence; Peace; World War, 1939-1945--United States--Influence; Patriotism--United States
- Asserts that although World War II is over, Americans still have responsibility for their government and veterans of the war.
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- Photography Fights
- Photography, Military; Aerial photography
- How photography helped win World War II. Shows photographic crews taking and examining pictures in search of enemy emplacements and evidence of enemy movements.
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- My Japan
- World War, 1939-1945--Japan
- A direct challenge to the American war effort against Japan, given by a Caucasian narrator made to look, and attempting to speak, like a stereotypical Japanese citizen. Japanese film footage is used, interspersing scenes of the beauty of Japan's...
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- Voice of Truth
- World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda; Propaganda, Japanese
- A Tokyo Rose broadcast and its effect on fighting men in the Pacific.
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- Fury in the Pacific
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Palau
- A photographic record of the invasion of the Palau Islands in 1944.
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- Our Enemy -- The Japanese
- World War, 1939-1945--Japan; Japan--Social life and customs; Japan--Religion; Imperialism
- Depicts the militaristic Japanese ready to die for the Emperor and world conquest.
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- 957th Day, The
- World War, 1939-1945--Pacific Ocean; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American
- Shows the Pacific Fifth Fleet engaged in combat action on the 957th day of World War II.
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- Freedom Comes High
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
- A man on a destroyer in the Pacific is forced to make a decision which results in the loss of his ship and crew.
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- It Can't Last
- World War, 1939-1945--Drama; Short films.
- While a middle-aged gentleman in the lovely little town of Old Lyme, Connecticut is thinking of postwar luxuries, a boy from the town is dying in the Pacific.
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- Secrets
- World War, 1939-1945--Science;
- Shows the cost of keeping up with science and the value of scientific preparedness.
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- Yanks battle for Okinawa!
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Japan--Okinawa Island;
- World War II documentary footage showing the American battle to take Okinawa from the Japanese. Also shows the bombing of the U.S.S. Franklin off the coast of Japan as filmed by U.S. Navy combat cameramen. Depicts the epic battle of the crew as...
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