WW II - Why We Fight - The Complete Series

This includes all seven documentaries made during World War II, using actual newsreel footage, by three OSCAR winners: produced-director Frank Capra (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can´t Take It With You) of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, composer Dimitri Tiomkin (High Noon, The High and the Mighty, The Old Man and the Sea) and actor-narrator Walter Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre).

PRELUDE TO WAR/THE NAZIS STRIKE.
The first two films in the series recount the Japanese incursion into Manchuria and the Italian conquest of Ethopia as Hitler´s armies spread like a cancer through the Rhineland, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland.

DIVIDE AND COUNQUER/THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN.
In documentary footage, Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium and France all fall to the seemingly invincible German army while, with their indomitable spirit, heroic Londoners endure a six-week blitz by the Luftwaffe.

THE BATTLE OF RUSSIA.
Nominated for an ACADEMY AWARD as Best Documentary, the fifth film in the series celebrates the spirit of the long-suffering Soviet people as they heroically repulse the Nazi invasion threatening their homeland.

THE BATTLE OF CHINA/WAR COMES TO AMERICA.
Japan´s occupation of China is shown, including the rape of Nanking, the great 2,000-mile migration, and the Flying Tigers, while in America, opinion gradually shifts from isolationism to support for entering the war.