First-Time Viewing

Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain

Release Date:October 10, 1943

Running Time:53 min

Genres:Documentary, War

Directors

Frank Capra Anthony Veiller Anatole Litvak

Cast

Walter Huston Frieda Inescort John B. Hughes

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

The fourth of Frank Capra's Why We Fight series of seven propaganda films, which made the case for fighting and winning the Second World War. It was released in 1943 and concentrated on the German bombardment of the United Kingdom in anticipation of Operation Sea Lion, the planned German invasion.

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