Hollywood's Second World War
Hollywoods Zweiter Weltkrieg (original)
For the USA, World War 2 was an all-out war - to mobilize the masses, the US government launched a huge propaganda campaign and cinema, the medium of the masses, was quite simply their most important weapon. Government authorities monitored the production of feature films and the military itself produced documentaries aimed at rallying the American people to support the troops. This film tells the story of four Hollywood directors of European origin, who returned to the "Old World" during the Second World War to make propaganda documentaries for the US Army at the front: William Wyler from Alsace, Frank Capra from Italy, Anatole Litvak from Ukraine and - in post-war Germany - Billy Wilder from Austria.
Starring Volker Schlöndorff, George Stevens Jr., Catherine Wyler, Anatole Litvak, William Wyler, Frank Capra, Billy Wilder, George Stevens
It's a documentary movie, and has a rating of 7.5 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.
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