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War

How to Bridge a Gorge

January 2, 1942

An instructional video that teaches, through stop-motion animation, how to build a bridge over a gorge that can hold heavy military equipment. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.

USS VD: Ship of Shame

USS VD: Ship of Shame

January 2, 1942

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. Actual victims of such sexually transmitted diseases as syphilis and gonorrhoea are shown, along with the physical deterioration that accompanies those diseases.

Remember Pearl Harbor

Remember Pearl Harbor

January 2, 1942

A man tries to redeem himself after ducking out on his comrades before the fatal attack.

The Frontshow

January 2, 1942

The Front Show is a series of World War II era German military training films shown to German soldiers before being shipped off to the Eastern Front. They were directed by the veteran propagandist Fritz Hippler, best known for Der Ewige Jude.

Malaya War Record: A Record of the Onward March

January 1, 1942

Assembled from Japanese war news footage and confiscated British newsreels, this propagandistic feature-length documentary film records the Japanese military operations against the British on the Malayan Peninsula and Singapore from December 1941 through February 1942, culminating in the British surrender of Singapore to the Japanese. It is the first of a two-part series titled “Malayan War Record” (Mare Senki; マレー戦記).

Fearless Patriot

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A group of people from Japan who will carry out espionage and sabotage operations have been landed on our border. They got lost in the air and came to the old herdsman, ransacked his house, robbed his belongings, and forced him to show them the way. The old man took the money and told his grandson Sengeee to go to the headquarters of the detachment and immediately report this incident, and he took them with him and led the way for his soldiers. When the enemy left, Sengee was imprisoned in the house, but the old man Shagdar was saved when the boy sneaked out of the house and delivered the news to the detachment headquarters.

The Blitzed Cities of Bristol and Bath

The Blitzed Cities of Bristol and Bath

January 1, 1942

Vivid colour footage of the wartime devastation wreaked on Bristol and Bath - and the barely affected village of Chew Magna.

Od pobudki do capstrzyku

January 1, 1942

Son of Tajikistan

January 1, 1942

The film tells about the front-line friendship between the sons of two people- Gafiz and Ivan.

The Cavalry

The Cavalry

January 1, 1942

The events of Tanker Jargal and Cavalryman Tsend show that every citizen must fight against a foreign enemy for the independence of his country. Tseren, a man who mischievously misleads the letters sent by the two to their beloved ladies, expresses the evil plot of the enemy.

Швейк готовится к бою

Швейк готовится к бою

January 1, 1942

From the Tatras to the Sea of Azov

January 1, 1942

A propaganda film about the struggle of the Slovak army on the eastern front in 1941 and 1942.

Young Partisans

Young Partisans

January 1, 1942

This is a two-in-one flashback film in which the flashback ends up teaching a group of kids a heroic lesson that they take to heart when war comes to their doorstep.

Sovgat

January 1, 1942

Bakhtiyar

Bakhtiyar

January 1, 1942

The short film is about the heroism of Azeri soldier.

Guard Along the Drina

Guard Along the Drina

January 1, 1942

A compilation of week journals made for Nazi-puppet regime in Croatia during WW II which show the warfare of Ustasha forces against Yugoslav partisans and Chetniks in eastern Bosnia.

For You at the Front!

For You at the Front!

January 1, 1942

From the start, Vertov made himself known as an irreconcilable enemy of “acted films,” which he regarded as a violation of truth. At the peak of World War II, however, such lofty artistic principles proved impractical. Vertov’s poetic and patriotic For You, Front! is a fiction film with a script and two actors. In a letter to her fiancé, a soldier on the front, Saule asks if there is anything he needs from “our beloved Kazakhstan.” Yes there is, he replies: lead, which can be used to make bullets to kill the enemies of “our beloved country.”

Kill or be Killed

Kill or be Killed

January 1, 1942

A fictional enactment of the deadly contest between a British soldier and a German sniper hiding in a tree. Kill or Be Killed differs from most army instructional films because of its powerful dramatization.

The Murderers Are Coming

The Murderers Are Coming

January 1, 1942

Brecht's play Fear and Misery of the Third Reich consists of a series of playlets, portraying National Socialist Germany of the 1930s as a land of poverty, violence, fear and pretence. Nazi antisemitism is depicted in several of the sketches, including "the Physicist", "Judicial Process", and "the Jewish Wife".

5 for 4

January 1, 1942

This animated short by Norman McLaren serves as a wartime savings campaign. Symbolic figures, drawn directly on 35mm film stock, move and dance against a simple painted background. The score is "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie," by Albert Ammons.