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Prelude to War (1942)

Name: Prelude to War
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1942
Duration: 40 min
Cast: Adolf Hitler, Paul von Hindenburg, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Chiang Kai-shek, Benito Mussolini

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Prelude to War (1942) is a 41-minute documentary that airs free on Starlite TV's Doc Vault (CH 6) channel. It is in the U.S. public domain. Directed by Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak.

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About Prelude to War (1942)

Prelude to War is the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight film series commissioned by the Office of War Information (OWI) and George C. Marshall.

In an edit added to the film before public release, a comment by US Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, is quoted to create trust with the audience: "the purpose of these films is to give factual information as to the causes, the events leading up to our entry into the war and the principles for which we are fighting." The purpose of the OWI was to use mass communication to appeal to both serving soldiers and later, the American population on the reasons for the war; and so it released Prelude to War to further those goals.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Prelude to War (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Cast includes: Adolf Hitler, Paul von Hindenburg, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Chiang Kai-shek, Benito Mussolini, Hirohito, Herbert Hoover, Haile Selassie I
Country: United States

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Airs on

Doc Vault - CH 6, Documentary TV

Rights & source

Basis: U.S. federal government work - public domain (17 U.S.C. 105)
Evidence: Produced by a US federal government agency (17 U.S.C. 105). Why We Fight #1, US War Department.
License on source: creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
Underlying rights: Why We Fight #1, US War Department.
Source: Internet Archive

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