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.
Jascha Hannover
Director, Writer
Volker Schlöndorff
Self
George Stevens Jr.
Self
Catherine Wyler
Self
Anatole Litvak
Self (archive footage)
William Wyler
Self (archive footage)
Frank Capra
Self (archive footage)
Billy Wilder
Self (archive footage)
George Stevens
Self (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin
Adenoid Hynkel (archive footage)
Padomju stāsts73%
The Battle of San Pietro61%
They Shall Not Grow Old77%
Five Came Back79%
2000 Meters to Andriivka79%
WWII From Space74%
The Age of Stupid65%
The Bloody Hundredth71%
The Making of Star Wars70%
Why We Fight: Prelude to War65%
Korengal66%
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound69%
20 Days in Mariupol81%
The Atomic Cafe73%
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside77%
Last Days in Vietnam73%
Let There Be Light73%
Hitler - Eine Karriere74%
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing70%
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company73%
