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Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain is a american film of genre War directed by Frank Capra released in USA on 10 october 1943 with Anthony Veiller
Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain (1943)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 10 october 1943
Length 54minutes
OriginUSA
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about technology, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Rating70%
For the 1969 film, see Battle of Britain (film). For the World War II battle, see Battle of Britain.
The Battle of Britain was the fourth of Frank Capra's Why We Fight series of seven propaganda films, which made the case for fighting and winning the Second World War. It was released in 1943 and concentrated on the German bombardment of the United Kingdom in anticipation of Operation Sea Lion, the planned Nazi invasion of Great Britain.
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The narrator describes the fall of France, leaving Britain almost defenceless. British forces are vastly outnumbered, but the British people are calm. The narrator explains that this is because in a democracy the people as a whole are involved in the decision to fight. Hitler's masterplan to subjugate Britain is described. Hitler begins by attacking convoys and ports, but fails to destroy them. The RAF are outnumbered "6 - 8 - 10 to one", but knock out far more planes than the Germans do. Bailed out British pilots are also able to return to the air, but German pilots are lost. Unlike the Dutch and Polish airforce Britain does not "make the mistake of bunching its planes on the runways".Actors
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