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The Great Dictator

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

1940

Main Street Today

This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional work

1944

Seeds of Destiny

Oscar winning postwar propaganda film in support of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Strident but poignant, focusing on ch

1946

6 Little Jungle Boys

A short animated War Office commissioned health education film, showing the fate of each of the 6 jungle soldiers.

1945

Beyond the Line of Duty

This short film in support of the war effort focuses on the training and missions of Army Air Corps Captain Hewitt T. Wheless just after the U.S. entr

1942

Girls in My Hometown

Girls in my Hometown, released in 1991, is a melodrama dealing with individualism and sacrifice. A young girl has a friend who has just come back from

1991

The Fighting Generation

A 1944 propaganda short film produced for the U.S. Treasury Department and intended to boost war bond sales, directed by an uncredited Alfred Hitchcoc

1944

The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith

Tom Smith, an American pilot, is shot down and captured by the Japanese. While imprisoned and awaiting execution, he recalls his life at home in the U

1943

Inflation

The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.

1942

USS VD: Ship of Shame

This film was made by the U.S. government during World War II to show its young servicemen the results of "fooling around" with "loose women" overseas

1942

My Führer

Hitler no longer believes in himself, and can barely see himself as an equal to even his sheep dog. But to seize the helm of the war he would have to

2007

Death Mills

Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies fo

1945

Full Metal Jacket

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the

1987

The Silent Village

The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.

1943

Kyouryoku Boukuusen

Woodland animal citizens learn how to extinguish different types of incendiary bombs and help fight back against an enemy air force of wolves.

1942

Katyn

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish ar

2007

Sergeant York

Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep rel

1941

Song of Victory

A vulture, a gorilla and a hyena (“with no small resemblances to actual dictators”) bully the woodland animals, who eventually fight back, using the l

1942

Scrap Happy Daffy

During World War Two, Daffy Duck owns a junkyard which collects scrap metal to use in building weapons to continue the Allied fight against the Axis p

1943

Nuclear Savage: The Islands of Secret Project 4.1

A shocking political exposé, and an intimate ethnographic portrait of Pacific Islanders struggling for survival, dignity, and justice after decades of

2011