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6 unusual facts about Why we Fight


Confessions of a Nazi Spy

Scenes from Confessions of a Nazi Spy are shown in War Comes to America, the last of the Why We Fight propaganda film series.

Free World

One of the earliest uses of the term Free World as a politically significant term occurs in Frank Capra's World War II propaganda film series Why We Fight.

Halford Mackinder

The German interpretation of the Heartland Theory is referred to explicitly (without mentioning the connection to Mackinder) in The Nazis Strike, the second of Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" series of American World War II propaganda films.

Lowell Mellett

Lowell Mellett (1886 - 1960) was a journalist best known for supervising the series Why We Fight during World War 2.

FDR, in appointing Mellet to head the BMP, wrote “The American motion picture is one of the most effective mediums in informing and entertaining our citizens. The motion picture must remain free in so far as national security will permit. I want no censorship of the motion picture.” The BMP's most successful project was Why We Fight.

Tanaka Giichi

The plan was presented as fact in the wartime propaganda movies Why We Fight, which also claimed that plan envisaged the conquest of America after East Asia.


Spark and Burn

For example why he was on a World War II sub ("Why We Fight"), and his earlier memories of the Scooby gang whilst he spied on them in "Reptile Boy".

The 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.

The Battle of Russia

The Battle of Russia is the fifth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, and the longest film of the series.

Vat 69

In episode 9, "Why we Fight", he is seen taking several drinks from a bottle of Vat 69 and enlisting the company clerk to help him find more.

War Comes to America

War Comes to America is the seventh and final film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight World War II propaganda film series.


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