During the World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 and immediately after it, in addition to the many private films created to help the war effort, many Allied countries had governmental or semi-governmental agencies commission propaganda and training films for home and foreign consumption. Animated films will be reserved for a future list.

1939

Title	Director	Notes
The Lion Has Wings The Lion Has Wings The Lion Has Wings is a 1939 British, black-and-white, documentary-style, propaganda, war film. The film was directed by Adrian Brunel, Brian Desmond Hurst, Alexander Korda and Michael Powell...	Adrian Brunel Adrian Brunel Adrian Brunel was an English film director and screenwriter. Brunel's directorial career started in the silent era, and reached its peak in the latter half of the 1920s... , Brian Desmond Hurst Brian Desmond Hurst thumb|right|200px|Portrait by [[Allan Warren]]Brian Desmond Hurst was a Belfast-born film director. Responsible for over 30 movies as director, Hurst was Ireland's most prolific movie director during the 20th century.-Early life:Hurst was born Hans Hurst in Ribble Street, East Belfast"". into a... , Michael Powell Michael Powell (director) Michael Latham Powell was a renowned English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger... , Alexander Korda Alexander Korda Sir Alexander Korda was a Hungarian-born British producer and film director. He was a leading figure in the British film industry, the founder of London Films and the owner of British Lion Films, a film distributing company.-Life and career:The elder brother of filmmakers Zoltán Korda and Vincent...  (uncredited)

1940

Title	Director	Notes
The Call for Arms The Call for Arms The Call for Arms is a 1940 British propaganda short film, directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Jean Gillie and René Ray. The film was commissioned by the Ministry of Information and was aimed at women, urging them to sign up for war work....	Brian Desmond Hurst Brian Desmond Hurst thumb|right|200px|Portrait by [[Allan Warren]]Brian Desmond Hurst was a Belfast-born film director. Responsible for over 30 movies as director, Hurst was Ireland's most prolific movie director during the 20th century.-Early life:Hurst was born Hans Hurst in Ribble Street, East Belfast"". into a...
Civilian Front	Mary Field Mary Field Mary Field was an American film actress who primarily appeared in supporting roles.- Early life :She was born in New York City, New York. As a child she never knew her biological parents. During her infancy she was left outside the doors of a church with a note pinned to her saying that her name...
London Can Take It! London Can Take It! London Can Take It! is a short documentary film produced by the GPO Film Unit for the Ministry of Information covering less than eighteen hours of the German blitz on London and its people...	Humphrey Jennings Humphrey Jennings Frank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings was an English documentary filmmaker and one of the founders of the Mass Observation organization...  and Harry Watt Harry Watt (director) Harry Watt was a Scottish documentary and feature film director, who began his career working for John Grierson and Robert Flaherty. His 1959 film The Siege of Pinchgut was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival...
Men of the Lightship	David MacDonald David MacDonald (director) David MacDonald was a British film director, writer and producer. His first major film as director was The Brothers.-Select filmography:*The Last Curtain...
Miss Grant Goes to the Door Miss Grant Goes to the Door Miss Grant Goes to the Door was a short propaganda film made for the British Ministry of Information in 1940. It was directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starred Mary Clare and Martita Hunt as two sisters, Caroline and Edith Grant, who have to deal with two invading Germans who arrive at their cottage...	Brian Desmond Hurst Brian Desmond Hurst thumb|right|200px|Portrait by [[Allan Warren]]Brian Desmond Hurst was a Belfast-born film director. Responsible for over 30 movies as director, Hurst was Ireland's most prolific movie director during the 20th century.-Early life:Hurst was born Hans Hurst in Ribble Street, East Belfast"". into a...
Musical Poster Number One	Len Lye Len Lye Len Lye, born Leonard Charles Huia Lye , was a Christchurch, New Zealand-born artist known primarily for his experimental films and kinetic sculpture. His films are held in archives such as the New Zealand Film Archive, British Film Institute, Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Pacific...
Neighbours Under Fire	Ralph Bond

1941

Title	Director	Notes
An Airman's Letter to His Mother An Airman's Letter to His Mother An Airman's Letter to His Mother is a documentary-style British propaganda short based on an actual letter from a British bomber pilot to his mother published in The Times in June 1940, which subsequently was published as a pamphlet and received wide distribution in the U.K.-Plot:A Royal Air Force...	Michael Powell Michael Powell (director) Michael Latham Powell was a renowned English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger...
ATS		A film about the Auxiliary Territorial Service, a women's formation
The Battle of London The Battle of London The Battle of London is a 15 minute British propaganda film made in 1941. It chronicles the impact on the capital city of the winter bombing campaign from 7 September 1940 to 10 May 1941 which German historians consider to be the second phase of the Battle of Britain and which both contemporary...	Jack Kemp
Christmas Under Fire Christmas Under Fire Christmas Under Fire is a 1941 short documentary film directed by Harry Watt. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. The film, narrated by Quentin Reynolds, tells of how the British people celebrated Christmas in hiding during the German attack on Britain in 1940, in the...	Charles Hasse and Harry Watt Harry Watt (director) Harry Watt was a Scottish documentary and feature film director, who began his career working for John Grierson and Robert Flaherty. His 1959 film The Siege of Pinchgut was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival...	Nominated for Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.-1940s:*1941...
Fighting Fields	Stanley Russell Stanley Russell Stanley Ivan Russell OBE Mayor of Nelson, New Zealand from 1956 to 1962. Director of G P Russell and Son, Chair of the YMCA. Labour Party supporter....
Food for Freedom
Green Girdle	Ralph Keene
The Heart of Britain	Humphrey Jennings Humphrey Jennings Frank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings was an English documentary filmmaker and one of the founders of the Mass Observation organization...
How to Dig
How to File
Merchant Seamen
Plastic Surgery in Wartime
Queen's Messengers
Shunter Black's Night Off
Target for Tonight Target for Tonight Target for Tonight is a 1941 British documentary film billed as being filmed by and acted by the Royal Air Force, all while under fire. It was directed by Harry Watt. The film revolves for the most part around one crew in a single Wellington aircraft...
Words for Battle Words for Battle Words for Battle is a British propaganda film produced by the Ministry of Information's Crown Film Unit in 1941. It was written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, and originally had the title In England Now...	Humphrey Jennings Humphrey Jennings Frank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings was an English documentary filmmaker and one of the founders of the Mass Observation organization...

1942

Title	Director	Notes
After Mein Kampf
Alice in Switzerland
Battle Is Our Business
Border Weave
Coastal Command Coastal Command (film) Coastal Command is a 1942 British film made by the Crown Film Unit for the Ministry of Information. The movie, distributed by RKO, dramatised the work of RAF Coastal Command. It was made under the supervision of Ian Dalrymple, with the full cooperation of the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy...	J. B. Holmes J. B. Holmes John Bradley "J.B." Holmes is an American professional golfer.-Early life:Holmes was born in Campbellsville, the seat of Taylor County, in central Kentucky. Holmes began to play on the varsity golf team at Taylor County High School in Campbellsville when he was in the third grade. He suffered a...
Dover
Greek Testament
Listen to Britain	Humphrey Jennings Humphrey Jennings Frank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings was an English documentary filmmaker and one of the founders of the Mass Observation organization...	Nominated for Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.-1940s:*1941...
Making a Compost Heap
Malta G.C.
Men of Tomorrow
Message from Canterbury
The Next of Kin The Next of Kin The Next of Kin, also known as Next of Kin, is a 1942 World War II propaganda film produced by Ealing Studios.The film was originally commissioned by the British War Office as a training film to promote the government propaganda message that "Careless talk costs lives"... (aka Next of Kin)	Thorold Dickinson Thorold Dickinson Thorold Barron Dickinson was a British film director, screenwriter, producer, and Britains's first university Professor of Film.-Early life and career:...	Originally a British War Office services training film by Ealing Studios based on the wartime security axiom that "Loose lips sink ships" / "Careless talk cost lives", it was also distributed commercially as its propaganda was of general strategic importance thus applicable to all citizens.
Night Shift
Trinity House Trinity House The Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond is the official General Lighthouse Authority for England, Wales and other British territorial waters...
Twenty-One Miles		Nominated for Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.-1940s:*1941...
Went the Day Well? Went the Day Well? "Went the Day Well?" is a British war film produced by Ealing Studios in 1942 as unofficial propaganda. It tells of how an English village is taken over by German paratroopers . Made during the war, it reflects the greatest potential nightmares of many Britons of the time, although the threat of...	Alberto Cavalcanti Alberto Cavalcanti Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti was a Brazilian-born film director and producer.-Early life:Cavalcanti was born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of a prominent mathematician. He was a precociously intelligent child, and by the age of 15 was studying law at university. Following an argument with a...

1943

Title	Director	Notes
Before the Raid	Jirí Weiss
Butterfly Bombs	Louise Birt
Cameramen at War
Close Quarters	Jack Lee Jack Lee (film director) Jack Lee was a film director, writer, editor and producer.Wilfred John Raymond Lee was born in the village of Slad near Stroud in Gloucestershire...
Desert Victory Desert Victory Desert Victory is a 1943 film produced by the British Ministry of Information, documenting the Allies' North African campaign against Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and the Afrika Korps. This documentary traces the struggle between General Erwin Rommel and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, from the...		Nominated for Academy Award for Documentary Feature Academy Award for Documentary Feature The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is among the most prestigious awards for documentary films.- Winners and nominees:Following the Academy's practice, films are listed below by the award year...
Development of the English Town	Mary Field Mary Field Mary Field was an American film actress who primarily appeared in supporting roles.- Early life :She was born in New York City, New York. As a child she never knew her biological parents. During her infancy she was left outside the doors of a church with a note pinned to her saying that her name...
Fires Were Started Fires Were Started Fires Were Started is a British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, filmed in documentary style showing the lives of firefighters through the Blitz in World War II...	Humphrey Jennings Humphrey Jennings Frank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings was an English documentary filmmaker and one of the founders of the Mass Observation organization...
Glorious Colours	Alfred Travers Alfred Travers -Selected filmography:* Men of Tomorrow * Glorious Colours * Meet the Navy * The Strangers Came * Solution by Phone * Don Giovanni * The Primitives * One for the Pot...
It's Just the Way It Is	Leslie Fenton Leslie Fenton Leslie Fenton was an English-born American actor and film director. He appeared in 62 films between 1923 and 1945....
Lift Your Heads	Michael Hankinson
The People's Land	Ralph Keene
Scottish Mazurka
The Silent Village The Silent Village The Silent Village is a 1943 British propaganda short film in the form of a drama documentary, made by the Crown Film Unit and directed by Humphrey Jennings...	Humphrey Jennings Humphrey Jennings Frank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings was an English documentary filmmaker and one of the founders of the Mass Observation organization...	The Nazi massacre at Lidice Lidice Lidice is a village in the Czech Republic just northwest of Prague. It is built on the site of a previous village of the same name which, as part of the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, was on orders from Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, completely destroyed by German forces in reprisal...  recreated in a Welsh village
Target for Today Target for Today Target for Today is a film containing United States Army Air Force combat footage of B-17 and B-24 bombers and named for the phrase used at briefings before air raids. The October 1944 footage was filmed during Eighth Air Force attacks on Nazi Germany industrial targets in Anklam, Marienburg , and...	William Keighley William Keighley William Jackson Keighley was an American stage actor and Hollywood film director....
Waterlight	Alberto Cavalcanti Alberto Cavalcanti Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti was a Brazilian-born film director and producer.-Early life:Cavalcanti was born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of a prominent mathematician. He was a precociously intelligent child, and by the age of 15 was studying law at university. Following an argument with a...
The Volunteer The Volunteer The Volunteer is a short black-and-white British film by the filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger for the U.K. Ministry of Information. Made during World War II as recruitment propaganda for the Fleet Air Arm, volunteer numbers rose after its release.The films features actor Ralph...	Michael Powell Michael Powell (director) Michael Latham Powell was a renowned English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger...  and Emeric Pressburger Emeric Pressburger Emeric Pressburger was a Hungarian-British screenwriter, film director, and producer. He is best known for his series of film collaborations with Michael Powell, in a multiple-award-winning partnership known as The Archers and produced a series of classic British films, notably 49th Parallel , The...

1944

Title	Director	Notes
Aventure malgache Aventure Malgache Aventure malgache is a short British propaganda film in French directed by Alfred Hitchcock for the British Ministry of Information. The title means Malagasy Adventure in English....	Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...
Children of the City
Clean Milk
Debris Clearance
The Great Circle
Jungle Patrol
Liberation of Rome
Men of Rochdale
New Builders
North East Corner
Out of Chaos
Road to Russia
Sailors Do Care
Soil Erosion
Towards the Offensive
Tunisian Victory Tunisian Victory Tunisian Victory is a 1944 Anglo-American propaganda film about the victories in the North Africa Campaign.The film follows both armies from the planning of Operation Torch / Operation Acrobat to the liberation of Tunis...	Frank Capra Frank Capra Frank Russell Capra was a Sicilian-born American film director. He emigrated to the U.S. when he was six, and eventually became a creative force behind major award-winning films during the 1930s and 1940s...	Co-production with US
V-1: The Robot Bomb
V. 1
Western Approaches Western Approaches The Western Approaches is a rectangular area of the Atlantic ocean lying on the western coast of Great Britain. The rectangle is higher than it is wide, the north and south boundaries defined by the north and south ends of the British Isles, the eastern boundary lying on the western coast, and the...
Willing Hands

1945

Title	Director	Notes
Burma Victory	Roy Boulting
A Diary for Timothy A Diary for Timothy A Diary for Timothy is a British documentary film directed by Humphrey Jennings. It was produced by Basil Wright for the Crown Film Unit....	Humphrey Jennings Humphrey Jennings Frank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings was an English documentary filmmaker and one of the founders of the Mass Observation organization...
Farm Work
Homes for the People
Song of the People
Steam Steam Steam is the technical term for water vapor, the gaseous phase of water, which is formed when water boils. In common language it is often used to refer to the visible mist of water droplets formed as this water vapor condenses in the presence of cooler air...
The Ten Year Plan
This Was Japan
The True Glory The True Glory The True Glory was a 1945 co-production of the US Office of War Information and the British Ministry of Information, documenting the victory on the Western Front, from Normandy to the collapse of the Third Reich. Although many individuals contributed to the film, British director Carol Reed is...	Carol Reed Carol Reed Sir Carol Reed was an English film director best known for Odd Man Out , The Fallen Idol , The Third Man and Oliver!...	Shows the final invasion and victory in Europe; won Academy Award for Documentary Feature Academy Award for Documentary Feature The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is among the most prestigious awards for documentary films.- Winners and nominees:Following the Academy's practice, films are listed below by the award year...

Australia

In Australia the Australian News & Information Bureau, as well as the Australian Department of Information, produced the following

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1941	Advance to Libya	Frank Hurley Frank Hurley James Francis "Frank" Hurley, OBE was an Australian photographer and adventurer. He participated in a number of expeditions to Antarctica and served as an official photographer with Australian forces during both world wars.His artistic style produced many memorable images but he also used staged...
1942	Kokoda Front Line!	Ken G. Hall Ken G. Hall Kenneth George Hall, AO OBE , better known as Ken G. Hall, was an Australian film director, considered one of the most important figures in the history of the Australian film industry.-Early years:...	Won Academy Award for Documentary Feature Academy Award for Documentary Feature The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is among the most prestigious awards for documentary films.- Winners and nominees:Following the Academy's practice, films are listed below by the award year...
1942	Men of Timor Men of Timor Men of Timor was a short documentary propaganda film about the guerrilla warfare activities of the Australian forces on Timor.The film opens with a map of the area showing Timors in relation to the north Australian coast, and briefly explains the circumstances of the left behind Australian troops...	Damien Parer Damien Parer Damien Peter Parer was an Australian war photographer. He became famous for his war photography of the Second World War, and was killed by Japanese machinegun fire at Peleliu, Palau. He married Elizabeth Marie Cotter on 23 March 1944, and his son, producer Damien Parer, was born after his father...
1942	Moresby Under the Blitz	Ken G. Hall Ken G. Hall Kenneth George Hall, AO OBE , better known as Ken G. Hall, was an Australian film director, considered one of the most important figures in the history of the Australian film industry.-Early years:...
1942	Soldiers Without Uniforms	Charles Chauvel
1943	Assault on Salamaua
1943	The Bismarck Convoy Smashed
1945	Mid East	Frank Hurley Frank Hurley James Francis "Frank" Hurley, OBE was an Australian photographer and adventurer. He participated in a number of expeditions to Antarctica and served as an official photographer with Australian forces during both world wars.His artistic style produced many memorable images but he also used staged...

Canada

In Canada, the National Film Board of Canada

National Film Board of Canada

The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's twelve-time Academy Award-winning public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions...

 either distributed or produced the following as part of its Canada Carries On

Canada Carries On

Canada Carries On was a series of short films by the National Film Board of Canada, which ran from 1940 to 1959. The series was initially created as morale boosting propaganda films during World War II...

and The World in Action

The World in Action

The World in Action was a series of propaganda films from the National Film Board of Canada , created to boost morale and show the Allied war effort during World War II.The series was inspired by the success of the NFB's Canada Carries On series...

series.

1940 

Title	Director	Notes
All Out for War
Atlantic Patrol	Stuart Legg Stuart Legg Stuart Legg was a documentary film-maker.As part of the British Documentary Film Movement, he worked with the General Post Office film unit from 1933, before replacing Paul Rotha as head of Strand Films in 1937...
Children from Overseas	Stanley Hawes Stanley Hawes Stanley Gilbert Hawes was a British-born documentary film producer and director who spent most of his career in Australia, though he commenced his career in England and Canada. He was born in London, England and died in Sydney, Australia...
Controls for Victory	Philip Ragan
Front of Steel	John McDougall	Narrated by Lorne Greene Lorne Greene Lorne Greene , was the stage name of Lyon Himan Green, OC, a Canadian actor.His television roles include Ben Cartwright on the western Bonanza, and Commander Adama in the science fiction movie and subsequent TV Series Battlestar Galactica... Watch online
Home Front	Stanley Hawes Stanley Hawes Stanley Gilbert Hawes was a British-born documentary film producer and director who spent most of his career in Australia, though he commenced his career in England and Canada. He was born in London, England and died in Sydney, Australia...	Watch online
Letter from Aldershot	Stanley Hawes Stanley Hawes Stanley Gilbert Hawes was a British-born documentary film producer and director who spent most of his career in Australia, though he commenced his career in England and Canada. He was born in London, England and died in Sydney, Australia...
Letter from Camp Borden	Raymond Spottiswoode
Not Peace but a Sword	Ross McLean	Re-edited version of Lights Out in Europe
On Guard for Thee On Guard For Thee On Guard For Thee was a Canadian documentary television miniseries which aired on CBC Television in 1981.-Premise:This series concerns the history and status of Canadian national security following World War II, particularly the national security role which the Royal Canadian Mounted Police held...	Stanley Hawes Stanley Hawes Stanley Gilbert Hawes was a British-born documentary film producer and director who spent most of his career in Australia, though he commenced his career in England and Canada. He was born in London, England and died in Sydney, Australia...
Squadron 992	Frank Badgley
Timber Front	Frank Badgley
Wings of Youth	Raymond Spottiswoode	Narrated by Lorne Greene Lorne Greene Lorne Greene , was the stage name of Lyon Himan Green, OC, a Canadian actor.His television roles include Ben Cartwright on the western Bonanza, and Commander Adama in the science fiction movie and subsequent TV Series Battlestar Galactica...

1941 

Title	Director	Notes
ACK ACK Ack Ack Ack Ack may refer to:* Anti-aircraft warfare* Ack Ack , American Hall of Fame racehorse...	Peter Baylis	French title: Défense contre avions
Battle of Brains	Stanley Hawes Stanley Hawes Stanley Gilbert Hawes was a British-born documentary film producer and director who spent most of his career in Australia, though he commenced his career in England and Canada. He was born in London, England and died in Sydney, Australia...
Call for Volunteers	Radford Crawley
Churchill's Island Churchill's Island Churchill's Island is a 1941 propaganda film chronicling the defence of Great Britain during World War II...	Stuart Legg Stuart Legg Stuart Legg was a documentary film-maker.As part of the British Documentary Film Movement, he worked with the General Post Office film unit from 1933, before replacing Paul Rotha as head of Strand Films in 1937...	Won Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.-1940s:*1941... . First NFB Oscar winner.
Fight for Liberty
Food, Weapon of Conquest	Stuart Legg Stuart Legg Stuart Legg was a documentary film-maker.As part of the British Documentary Film Movement, he worked with the General Post Office film unit from 1933, before replacing Paul Rotha as head of Strand Films in 1937...
Guards of the North	Raymond Spottiswoode
Heroes of the Atlantic	J.D. Davidson	Watch online
Iceland on the Prairies	Radford Crawley
The People's War
Soldiers All	Stuart Legg Stuart Legg Stuart Legg was a documentary film-maker.As part of the British Documentary Film Movement, he worked with the General Post Office film unit from 1933, before replacing Paul Rotha as head of Strand Films in 1937...
Strategy of Metals	Raymond Spottiswoode
Strategy of Metals	Graham McInnes	Combination of A Call for Volunteers (above) and Ottawa, Wartime Capital
Tools of War
Warclouds in the Pacific	Stuart Legg Stuart Legg Stuart Legg was a documentary film-maker.As part of the British Documentary Film Movement, he worked with the General Post Office film unit from 1933, before replacing Paul Rotha as head of Strand Films in 1937...	Nominated for Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.-1940s:*1941...
Who Sheds His Blood	Judith Crawley
Wings of a Continent	Raymond Spottiswoode

1942 

Title	Director	Notes
Battle for Oil	Stuart Legg Stuart Legg Stuart Legg was a documentary film-maker.As part of the British Documentary Film Movement, he worked with the General Post Office film unit from 1933, before replacing Paul Rotha as head of Strand Films in 1937...
Battle of the Harvests	Stanley Jackson
Blitzkrieg Tactics		Contains footage of Nazi film Feuertaufe
Everywhere in the World	Stuart Legg Stuart Legg Stuart Legg was a documentary film-maker.As part of the British Documentary Film Movement, he worked with the General Post Office film unit from 1933, before replacing Paul Rotha as head of Strand Films in 1937...	Stresses Commonwealth and American solidarity
The Face of Time	Graham McInnes	Centenary of the Geological Survey of Canada. Contains war related information.
Ferry Pilot	Stuart Legg Stuart Legg Stuart Legg was a documentary film-maker.As part of the British Documentary Film Movement, he worked with the General Post Office film unit from 1933, before replacing Paul Rotha as head of Strand Films in 1937...
Field Training in Winter	Stanley Hawes Stanley Hawes Stanley Gilbert Hawes was a British-born documentary film producer and director who spent most of his career in Australia, though he commenced his career in England and Canada. He was born in London, England and died in Sydney, Australia...
Fighting Ships	Graham McInnes
Forward Commandos	Raymond Spottiswoode
Freighters Under Fire
Geopolitik - Hitler's Plan for Empire	Stuart Legg Stuart Legg Stuart Legg was a documentary film-maker.As part of the British Documentary Film Movement, he worked with the General Post Office film unit from 1933, before replacing Paul Rotha as head of Strand Films in 1937...
Great Guns	Graham McInnes
If	Philip Ragan
Inside Fighting Canada	Jane Marsh Jane Marsh Beveridge Jane Marsh Beveridge was a sculptor, composer, filmmaker and writer during her long and varied life. A native of Ottawa, Ontario, she earned her bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College.-Early years:...	Watch online
Inside Fighting China Inside Fighting China Inside Fighting China is a 1941 Canadian short documentary film directed by Stuart Legg, and narrated by Lorne Greene. The film documents China's resistance to Japan's invasion during World War II...		Nominated for Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.-1940s:*1941...
Inside Fighting Russia
Voice of Action	James Beveridge James Beveridge James Beveridge was a film-maker. He co-founded the National Film Board of Canada with John Grierson, and during the Second World War he directed and produced more than eighty documentary films...	Watch online

1943 

Title	Director	Notes
100,000 Cadets	Nicholas Read Nicholas Read Nicholas Read is an American physicist, noted for his work on strongly interacting quantum many-body systems.-Biography:Read was born in Britain in 1958 and did his undergraduate education at the Cambridge University. He completed his PhD at the Imperial College, London after which he moved to the...
13 Platoon	Julian Roffman
Action Stations Action Stations Action Stations is the general signal to the personnel of a warship that combat with a hostile attacker is imminent or deemed probable...	Joris Ivens Joris Ivens Joris Ivens was a Dutch documentary filmmaker and committed communist.-Early life and career:...
A.R.P. in Schools		Training children about what to do in an air raid
Banshees Over Canada Banshees Over Canada Banshees Over Canada is a 1943 Canadian documentary film, made by the National Film Board of Canada. Produced by Sydney Newman and directed by James Beveridge, the nineteen-minute film examines British preparations for a German bombing raid, as well as the resultant destruction caused by the raid...	James Beveridge
Battle Is Our Business	Julian Roffman
Battle Is Their Birthright	Stuart Legg Stuart Legg Stuart Legg was a documentary film-maker.As part of the British Documentary Film Movement, he worked with the General Post Office film unit from 1933, before replacing Paul Rotha as head of Strand Films in 1937...
Buying Fever	Philip Ragan
Canada - Workshop of Victory
Canada's Youth Training Plan
Coal Face, Canada	Robert Edmonds
Corvette Port Arthur	Joris Ivens Joris Ivens Joris Ivens was a Dutch documentary filmmaker and committed communist.-Early life and career:...
Coupon Value
Curtailment of Civilian Industries	Philip Ragan
Farm Front
Farmers Forum
First Aid in A.R.P.
Fighting Dutch	Raymond Spottiswoode	Co-produced with Netherlands Information Bureau
Fighting Norway Fighting Norway Fighting Norway is a 1943 Canadian documentary film, produced by the National Film Board of Canada and directed by Sydney Newman. Ten minutes in length, the film examines the role of the free forces of occupied Norway during the Second World War...	Sydney Newman Sydney Newman Sydney Cecil Newman, OC was a Canadian film and television producer, who played a pioneering role in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s...
The Gates of Italy	Stuart Legg Stuart Legg Stuart Legg was a documentary film-maker.As part of the British Documentary Film Movement, he worked with the General Post Office film unit from 1933, before replacing Paul Rotha as head of Strand Films in 1937...  and Tom Daly	Watch online
Getting out the Coal
Handle with Care	George L. George
He Plants for Victory	Philip Ragan	Concerns Victory Gardens
Industrial Workers
Proudly She Marches	Jane Marsh Jane Marsh Beveridge Jane Marsh Beveridge was a sculptor, composer, filmmaker and writer during her long and varied life. A native of Ottawa, Ontario, she earned her bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College.-Early years:...	Watch online
The War for Men's Minds	Stuart Legg Stuart Legg Stuart Legg was a documentary film-maker.As part of the British Documentary Film Movement, he worked with the General Post Office film unit from 1933, before replacing Paul Rotha as head of Strand Films in 1937...	Watch online

1944 

Title	Director	Notes
According to Need	Dallas Jones
Air Cadets	Jane Marsh Jane Marsh Beveridge Jane Marsh Beveridge was a sculptor, composer, filmmaker and writer during her long and varied life. A native of Ottawa, Ontario, she earned her bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College.-Early years:...
Alaska Military Highway	Julian Roffman
Back to Normal	George Dunning George Dunning George Garnett Dunning was a Canadian film maker and animator. He is best known for animating and directing the 1968 Beatles' film Yellow Submarine.-Biography:...	Concerns life of war amputees
Balkan Powder Keg	Stuart Legg Stuart Legg Stuart Legg was a documentary film-maker.As part of the British Documentary Film Movement, he worked with the General Post Office film unit from 1933, before replacing Paul Rotha as head of Strand Films in 1937...
Battle of Europe	Stuart Legg Stuart Legg Stuart Legg was a documentary film-maker.As part of the British Documentary Film Movement, he worked with the General Post Office film unit from 1933, before replacing Paul Rotha as head of Strand Films in 1937... , Tom Daly
The Bayonet
Break-through	James Beveridge James Beveridge James Beveridge was a film-maker. He co-founded the National Film Board of Canada with John Grierson, and during the Second World War he directed and produced more than eighty documentary films...	Watch online
Canadian Army Sing-Song No. 1	Don Baker, B.K. Blake
Canadian Blood Saves Lives on All Fronts
Keep Your Mouth Shut	Norman McLaren Norman McLaren Norman McLaren, CC, CQ was a Scottish-born Canadian animator and film director known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada...	Narrated by Lorne Greene Lorne Greene Lorne Greene , was the stage name of Lyon Himan Green, OC, a Canadian actor.His television roles include Ben Cartwright on the western Bonanza, and Commander Adama in the science fiction movie and subsequent TV Series Battlestar Galactica... (unconfirmed)
Fortress Japan Fortress Japan Fortress Japan is a Japanese company that operates eikaiwa English conversation schools under brands including Global Trinity （Katakana: グローバルトリニティー）...	Stuart Legg Stuart Legg Stuart Legg was a documentary film-maker.As part of the British Documentary Film Movement, he worked with the General Post Office film unit from 1933, before replacing Paul Rotha as head of Strand Films in 1937...
Infantry - Pride of the Army	Dan Wallace Dan Wallace Dan Wallace is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served for more than twenty years as Teachta Dála for Cork North Central....
Road to the Reich	Tom Daly
Target: Berlin	Ernest Borneman Ernest Borneman Ernst Wilhelm Julius Bornemann was a German crime writer, filmmaker, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, jazz musician, jazz critic, psychoanalyst, sexologist, and committed socialist. All these diverse interests, he claimed, had a common root in his lifelong insatiable curiosity...
Train Busters
Trans-Canada Express	Stanley Hawes Stanley Hawes Stanley Gilbert Hawes was a British-born documentary film producer and director who spent most of his career in Australia, though he commenced his career in England and Canada. He was born in London, England and died in Sydney, Australia...	Watch online
Zero Hour	Stuart Legg Stuart Legg Stuart Legg was a documentary film-maker.As part of the British Documentary Film Movement, he worked with the General Post Office film unit from 1933, before replacing Paul Rotha as head of Strand Films in 1937...

1945 

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1945	John Bull's Own Island	Stuart Legg Stuart Legg Stuart Legg was a documentary film-maker.As part of the British Documentary Film Movement, he worked with the General Post Office film unit from 1933, before replacing Paul Rotha as head of Strand Films in 1937...

India

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1940	He's in the Navy	George Radcliffe-Genge
1940	The Planes of Hindusthan	George Radcliffe-Genge
1941	V for Victory V for Victory For information about the victory sign, see V sign#The V campaign and the victory/freedom sign.V for Victory is a series of turn-based strategy games, set during World War II.Four games were produced in the series:* V for Victory: D-Day Utah Beach...	Bibhuti Mitra
1941	Voice of Satan	Ezra Mir
1941	Road to Victory	Ezra Mir
1941	In Self-Defence	Pittamandalam Venktatachalapathy Pathy
1942	The Golden Grain of Bharatkhand	Pittamandalam Venktatachalapathy Pathy
1943	Home Front	Pittamandalam Venktatachalapathy Pathy

United States

The United States had the largest film industry of any of the Allied powers, and its use for propaganda purposes is legendary. Because it was so big, there was no single governmental or semi-governmental agency that centrally controlled it. Instead, the Office of War Information co-ordinated efforts among many entities to produce propaganda:

OIAA: Office of Inter-American Affairs

OEM: Office for Emergency Management

Office for Emergency Management

The Office for Emergency Management was an office within the Executive Office of the United States President. It was established by administrative order, May 25, 1940, in accordance with EO 8248, September 8, 1939....

OSS: Office of Strategic Services

Office of Strategic Services

The Office of Strategic Services was a United States intelligence agency formed during World War II. It was the wartime intelligence agency, and it was a predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency...

USAAF: United States Army Air Force

USASC: U.S. Army Signal Corps

USASSD: U.S. Army Special Service Division

USDA: United States Department of Agriculture

United States Department of Agriculture

The United States Department of Agriculture is the United States federal executive department responsible for developing and executing U.S. federal government policy on farming, agriculture, and food...

USDT: United States Department of Treasury

USN: United States Navy

United States Navy

The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...

USDW: United States Department of War

United States Department of War

The United States Department of War, also called the War Department , was the United States Cabinet department originally responsible for the operation and maintenance of the United States Army...

WACMPI: War Activities Committee of the Motion Pictures Industry

War Activities Committee of the Motion Pictures Industry

The War Activities Committee of the Motion Pictures Industry was a group formed by the Motion picture industry to assist the US government during the Second World War. It distributed many government produced propaganda films and organized war bond drives....

Several of these films, although they have propaganda value, were used as training films for the United States armed forces.

1941  

Pre-December films given IMDb release date where available.

Title	Director	Agencies or Organizations involved	Notes
Aluminum		WACMPI
America Builds Ships		WACMPI; OPM	Released June 5
America Preferred		WACMPI; USDT	Released 20 May
Army in Overalls		WACMPI; OPM	Released June 5
Bits and Pieces		WACMPI; OPM	Released June 5
Defense Review No. 1		WACMPI
Defense Review No. 2		WACMPI
Men and Ships		WACMPI; BPI	Released June 23
Pots to Planes		WACMPI; OEM	Released November 22
Power for Defense		WACMPI; NDC	Released February 18
Preflight Inspection of the B-17E		USASC; UASAAF	War Department Training Film 1-532
Red Cross Trailer		WACMPI;
Where Do We Go?		WACMPI; USO	Released May 28
Women in Defense Women in Defense Women in Defense is a 1941 short film produced by the Office of Emergency Management shortly before the United States entered the Second World War.-Synopsis:...		WACMPI; OEM	Released May 28; narrated by Katharine Hepburn Katharine Hepburn Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress of film, stage, and television. In a career that spanned 62 years as a leading lady, she was best known for playing strong-willed, sophisticated women in both dramas and comedies... ; written by Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an international...

1942  

Title	Director	Agencies or Organizations involved	Notes
The Arm Behind the Army The Arm Behind the Army The Arm Behind the Army is a propaganda film produced by the US Army Signal Corps in 1942 to encourage the home front to participate in war production....		USASC
The Battle of Midway The Battle of Midway The Battle of Midway is a 1942 American documentary film short directed by John Ford. It is a montage of color footage of the Battle of Midway with voice overs of various narrators, including Donald Crisp, Henry Fonda, and Jane Darwell...	John Ford John Ford John Ford was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath...	USN,WACMPI	Academy Award for Documentary Feature Academy Award for Documentary Feature The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is among the most prestigious awards for documentary films.- Winners and nominees:Following the Academy's practice, films are listed below by the award year...  1942*
Campus on the March Campus on the March Campus on the March is a short propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information in 1942.The twenty minute film exhaustively list the number of institutions of higher learning and many dirrerent war activities that have begun at each, including the University of Texas, Texas A&M, Harvard,...		OWI
Colleges at War
Defense Review No. 3
Fighting the Fire Bomb
Fuel Conservation
Hemp for Victory Hemp for Victory Hemp for Victory is a black-and-white United States government film made during World War II, explaining the uses of hemp, encouraging farmers to grow as much as possible.- History :...	Raymond Evans	USDA
Henry Browne, Farmer Henry Browne, Farmer Henry Browne, Farmer was a short propaganda film produced in 1942 about African-American contributions to the American home front. It is narrated by Canada Lee....		USDA	Nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.-1940s:*1941...
Homes for Defense
How to Fly the B-24D Airplane
Introduction to the P-39
It's Everybody's War It's Everybody's War It's Everybody's War was a short dramatic propaganda film produced by 20th Century Fox and distributed by the Office of War Information in 1942....		OWI	Nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.-1940s:*1941...
Japanese Relocation		WACMPI; OWI	Japanese American internment Japanese American internment Japanese-American internment was the relocation and internment by the United States government in 1942 of approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast of the United States to camps called "War Relocation Camps," in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on...
Keep 'Em Rolling
Keeping Fit
Lake Carrier
Manpower		OWI
Mister Gardenia Jones		OWI	Nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.-1940s:*1941...
Morgenthau Trailer
Night Shift
Why We Fight Why We Fight Why We Fight is a series of seven war information training films commissioned by the United States government during World War II whose purpose was to show American soldiers the reason for U.S. involvement in the war. Later on they were also shown to the general U.S... :Prelude to War Prelude to War Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra’s Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Office of War Information and George C. Marshall. It was made to convince American troops of the necessity of combating the Axis Powers during World War II...	Frank Capra Frank Capra Frank Russell Capra was a Sicilian-born American film director. He emigrated to the U.S. when he was six, and eventually became a creative force behind major award-winning films during the 1930s and 1940s...	USASSD; USASC	Academy Award for Documentary Feature Academy Award for Documentary Feature The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is among the most prestigious awards for documentary films.- Winners and nominees:Following the Academy's practice, films are listed below by the award year...  1942*
Safeguarding Military Information Safeguarding Military Information Safeguarding Military Information was a short propaganda film produced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1942.-Description:...		AMPAS
Salvage
Servicing P-39: Bore Sighting All Guns
Sex Hygiene Sex Hygiene Sex Hygiene is a 1942 documentary film directed by John Ford and Otto Brower. It belonged to the instructional social guidance film genre, which offered adolescent and adult behavioural advice, medical information and moral exhortations.-Plot:...	John Ford John Ford John Ford was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath...	USASC
Tanks
Torpedo Squadron Torpedo Squadron Torpedo Squadron is a 1942 short documentary film shot by John Ford while he was on the island of Midway.-External links:*...	John Ford John Ford John Ford was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath...	USN
U.S. Coast Guard
United China Relief
Vigilance
Winning Your Wings Winning Your Wings Winning Your Wings is a 1942 Allied propaganda film of World War II produced by the US Army Air Force First Motion Picture Unit, starring Jimmy Stewart. It was aimed at young men who were thinking about joining the Air Force....	John Huston John Huston John Marcellus Huston was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The Asphalt Jungle , The African Queen , Moulin Rouge... Owen Crump (uncredited)	USAAF	Starring James Stewart James Stewart (actor) James Maitland Stewart was an American film and stage actor, known for his distinctive voice and his everyman persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many films widely considered classics and was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one in competition and receiving one Lifetime... ; Nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.-1940s:*1941...
The World at War The World at War (film) The World at War is a 1942 propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information. One of the earliest long length films made by the government during the war, it attempted to explain the large picture of why the United States was at war, and the various causes and circumstances which brought...	Lowell Mellett Lowell Mellett Lowell Mellett was a journalist best known for supervising the series Why We Fight during World War 2.-Early life:Born in small-town Indiana, Mellett claimed his interest in public affairs came from holding a torch in rallies for rivals Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison since, as he wrote, "a...	OWI
Wood for War Wood for War Wood for War was a 1942 color short produced by the United States Department of Agriculture.- Overview :The film opens with shots of large American forests and notes that forest are one of natures few renewable resources, if managed wisely...	Arthur H. Wolf	USDT
Your Air Raid Warden
Your American Tragedy

• The 1942 Academy Award for Best Documentary, whose time frame included part of 1943, was split among four films, including the two seen here. Also, that year saw the almagation of the feature and short subject documentary categories into a single category.

1943  

Title	Director	Agencies or Organizations involved	Notes
A Challenge to Democracy A Challenge to Democracy A Challenge to Democracy is a twenty-minute short film produced in 1944 by the War Relocation Authority. The film could be considered a companion piece or sequel to 1942's Japanese Relocation.This film is more sober in its description...		OWI; OSS; WRA	Concerns Japanese American internment Japanese American internment Japanese-American internment was the relocation and internment by the United States government in 1942 of approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast of the United States to camps called "War Relocation Camps," in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on...
GI Bill of Rights		Army-Navy Screen Magazine
Air Support		USN
At the Front		OWI; WACMPI
American Saboteur		USDA; USFS; WACMPI
The Autobiography of a 'Jeep' The Autobiography of a 'Jeep' The Autobiography of a 'Jeep' was a 1943 propaganda film produced by the United States Office of War Information. As its name might suggest, it is the story of parts of World War II told from the perspective of a Jeep....	Joseph Krumgold Joseph Krumgold Joseph Quincy Krumgold was a United States author and scriptwriter. He was the first author to receive the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature twice. Lois Lowry, Elizabeth George Speare, Katherine Paterson, and E. L. Konigsburg have also achieved this honor...  (uncredited)	OWI
Brazil at War Brazil at War Brazil at War is a 1943 propaganda short documentary film produced by the Office of War Information and the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs....		OWI; OIAA
British Torpedo Plane Tactics		USN; Walt Disney Pictures
Basic Electricity, As Applied to Electronic Control Systems		USN; Walt Disney Pictures
Black Marketing Black Marketing Black Marketing is a 1943 dramatic propaganda short produced by the Office of War Information and directed by William Castle. It is an educational film warning American civilians against buying unrationed foodstuffs and materials....	William Castle William Castle William Castle was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. Castle was known for directing films with many gimmicks which were ambitiously promoted, despite being reasonably low budget B-movies....	OWI; WACMPI
Brothers in Blood		WACMPI
Chief Neeley Reports to the Nation		WACMPI; USN	Concerns women's auxiliary, WAVES
Combat America Combat America Combat America is a 1943 Allied propaganda film of World War II:Initial footage depicts aircraft flying over American mountains, with Gable narrating that this is what they are fighting for...		USAF	Narrated by Clark Gable Clark Gable William Clark Gable , known as Clark Gable, was an American film actor most famous for his role as Rhett Butler in the 1939 Civil War epic film Gone with the Wind, in which he starred with Vivien Leigh...
Community Transportation		OWI; WACMPI
Customs of the Service		USASC
Day of Battle		OWI; WACMPI
December 7th December 7th (film) December 7th is a propaganda film produced by the US Navy and directed by John Ford, about the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the event which sparked the Pacific War and American involvement in World War II.-Production background:...	John Ford John Ford John Ford was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath...	USN; USDW	Won an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.-1940s:*1941...
Destination Island X		USN; WACMPI
Ditching: Before and After		USAF
Dive Bombing		USAF
Doctors at War		OWI; WACMPI
Family Feud		WACMPI
Farmer at War		OWI; WACMPI
The First Motion Picture Unit		USAAF
Flying the P-39		USAAF
Food and Magic Food and Magic Food and Magic is a 1943 short documentary film commissioned by the United States Government during World War II. Food and Magic, was produced by the War Activities Committee of The Motion Picture Industry and it deals with food conservation and healthy eating...		OWI; WACMPI
Food for Fighters Food for Fighters Food for Fighters was a 1943 propaganda short about nutrition in the Armed Services produced by the Office of War Information.The films opens with a young conscript first getting weighed before going into the Army...		OWI; WACMPI
German Industrial Manpower		OSS
Handling Aviation Gasoline in the Field		USAAF
His New World		OWI;	Narrated by Spencer Tracy Spencer Tracy Spencer Bonaventure Tracy was an American theatrical and film actor, who appeared in 75 films from 1930 to 1967. Tracy was one of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, ranking among the top ten box office draws for almost every year from 1938 to 1951...
How to Fly the B-17		USAAF
How to Fly the P-47		USAAF
How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines		OSS
How to Shoot a Rifle		USAAF
Kill or Be Killed		USA
Materials Handling in AAF Depots		USAAF
Message from Malta		OWI; WACMPI
Mission Accomplished Mission Accomplished (film) Mission Accomplished was a short 1943 propaganda film produced by the United States Office of War Information about the B-17 Flying Fortress.-Synopsis:...		OWI; WACMPI
Negro Colleges in War Time Negro Colleges in War Time Negro Colleges in Wartime was a short propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information in 1943. Other than in the screentitle no reference is made to the students' race....		WACMPI; OWI
No Exceptions		WACMPI; OWI
Oil Fires, Their Prevention and Extinguishment		USAAF
Oil Is Blood		WACMPI; OWI
Operation of C-1 Autopilot		USAAF
Our Enemy- The Japanese Our Enemy- The Japanese Our Enemy — The Japanese was a 1943 short film produced by the US Navy and Office of War Information to provide background knowledge about the wartime foe.The film begins with the narrator, former U.S. ambassador to Japan, Joseph C...		USN; OWI
P-38 Flight Characteristics	S.C. Burden	USAAF
Paratroops		WACMPI; OWI
Recognition of the Japanese Zero Fighter Recognition of the Japanese Zero Fighter Recognition of the Japanese Zero Fighter was an educational dramatic short produced by the United States Air Force during World War II. Its purpose was to instruct pilots in the Pacific theatre about recognizing hostile planes at long distances and avoid friendly fire incidents.Most of the film is...	Bernard Vorhaus Bernard Vorhaus Bernard Vorhaus was an American film director born in New York City.The Harvard University graduate, in addition to directing thirty-two films, was also the mentor to future film director David Lean, some of whose work as a film editor early in his career was on Vorhaus pictures...	First Motion Picture Unit, United States Army Air Forces; OWI	Starring Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....
Reconnaissance Pilot		USAAF
Report from the Aleutians Report from the Aleutians Report From the Aleutians is a 47-minute documentary propaganda film produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps about the Aleutian Islands Campaign during World War II...	John Huston John Huston John Marcellus Huston was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The Asphalt Jungle , The African Queen , Moulin Rouge...	WACMPI; USASC	Nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature Academy Award for Documentary Feature The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is among the most prestigious awards for documentary films.- Winners and nominees:Following the Academy's practice, films are listed below by the award year...
Right of Way		WACMPI; OWI
Servicing P-39:Procedure for Uncrating		USAAF
Servicing P-39: Synchronizing .50 Caliber Fuselage Guns		USAAF
The Sikorsky Helicopter		USAAF
Since Pearl Harbor Since Pearl Harbor Since Pearl Harbor is a 1943 short documentary film commissioned by the United States Government during World War II. It is a "report to the American People" regarding the wartime activities of the American Red Cross since the Attack on Pearl Harbor....		WACMPI; American Red Cross	Wartime activities of the Red Cross
Suckerbait		USA	Caution against Nazi spies
Suggestion Box Suggestion Box Suggestion Box was a short propaganda film produced in 1943 by the Office of War Information. Its purpose was to encourage workers to send in suggestions for more effective war production....		WACMPI; OWI
Tank Convoy
Three Cities		OWI
To the People of the United States To the People of the United States To the People of the United States is a short propaganda film produced by the US Public Health Service in 1943 to warn the American GIs against syphilis. It was directed by Arthur Lubin....	Arthur Lubin Arthur Lubin Arthur Lubin was an American film director and producer who directed several Abbott & Costello films and created the TV series Mr. Ed.Arthur Lubin was born Arthur William Lubovsky in Los Angeles, California in 1898...	PHS	Nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.-1940s:*1941...
Tomorrow We Fly Tomorrow We Fly Tomorrow We Fly is a 1943 short documentary film. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short....		USN	Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)
The Tree in a Test Tube The Tree in a Test Tube The Tree in a Test Tube is a short film produced by the U. S. Department of Agriculture and distributed by the U.S. Forest Service, featuring Laurel and Hardy, with narration read by MGM announcer and producer Pete Smith.-Plot outline:...	Charles McDonald	USDA	Laurel and Hardy Laurel and Hardy Laurel and Hardy were one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema...  short about use of wood in the war effort
Troop Train Troop Train Troop Train was a 1943 short propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information.While the films assumed purpose would be to educate the American public about the role of railroad transportation of military divisions, Troop Train takes a more stylistic approach, with absolutely no narration...		WACMPI; OWI
Turbosupercharger: Flight Operation		USAAF
Turbosupercharger: Master of the Skies		USAAF
Uncrating and Assembly of the P-47 Thunderbolt Airplane		USAAF
War Department Report War Department Report War Department Report is a 1943 documentary film directed by Oliver Lundquist. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature....	Oliver Lincoln Lundquist Oliver Lincoln Lundquist Oliver Lincoln Lundquist was an American architect and industrial designer who headed the team which was responsible for the design of the United Nations logo and who himself designed the Q-Tip box....	OSS	Nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature Academy Award for Documentary Feature The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is among the most prestigious awards for documentary films.- Winners and nominees:Following the Academy's practice, films are listed below by the award year...
War Town		WACMPI; OWI
Wartime Nutrition Wartime Nutrition Wartime Nutrition was a 1943 short film. One of the Allied propaganda films of World War II it urged civilians on the United States home front to eat healthier and follow the wartime ration guidelines....		WACMPI; OWI
We've Never Been Licked We've Never Been Licked We've Never Been Licked is a World War II propaganda film produced by Walter Wanger and released by United Artists. Parts of the movie were shot on location at the Texas A&M University campus...	John Rawlins John Rawlins (director) John Rawlins was an American film director. He directed 44 films between 1932 and 1958. He was born in Long Beach, California and died in Arcadia, California.-Filmography:* Lost Lagoon...	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University Texas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...	Features William Frawley William Frawley William Clement "Bill" Frawley was an American stage entertainer, screen and television actor. Although Frawley acted in over 100 films, he achieved his greatest fame playing landlord Fred Mertz for the situation comedy I Love Lucy.-Early life:William was born to Michael A. Frawley and Mary E....  of I Love Lucy I Love Lucy I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley. The black-and-white series originally ran from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, on the Columbia Broadcasting System...  as a Japanese agent
When Work Is Done		OWI
Why We Fight Why We Fight Why We Fight is a series of seven war information training films commissioned by the United States government during World War II whose purpose was to show American soldiers the reason for U.S. involvement in the war. Later on they were also shown to the general U.S... :The Nazis Strike The Nazis Strike The Nazis Strike was the second film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series. It introduces Germany as a nation whose aggressive ambitions began in 1863 with Otto von Bismarck and with the Nazis as their latest incarnation....	Frank Capra Frank Capra Frank Russell Capra was a Sicilian-born American film director. He emigrated to the U.S. when he was six, and eventually became a creative force behind major award-winning films during the 1930s and 1940s...	USASSD; USASC
Why We Fight Why We Fight Why We Fight is a series of seven war information training films commissioned by the United States government during World War II whose purpose was to show American soldiers the reason for U.S. involvement in the war. Later on they were also shown to the general U.S... :Divide and Conquer Divide and Conquer (newsreel) Divide and Conquer is the third film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conquest of Western Europe in 1940....	Frank Capra Frank Capra Frank Russell Capra was a Sicilian-born American film director. He emigrated to the U.S. when he was six, and eventually became a creative force behind major award-winning films during the 1930s and 1940s...	USASSD; USASC
Why We Fight Why We Fight Why We Fight is a series of seven war information training films commissioned by the United States government during World War II whose purpose was to show American soldiers the reason for U.S. involvement in the war. Later on they were also shown to the general U.S... :The Battle of Britain 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...	Frank Capra Frank Capra Frank Russell Capra was a Sicilian-born American film director. He emigrated to the U.S. when he was six, and eventually became a creative force behind major award-winning films during the 1930s and 1940s...	USASSD; USASC
Why We Fight Why We Fight Why We Fight is a series of seven war information training films commissioned by the United States government during World War II whose purpose was to show American soldiers the reason for U.S. involvement in the war. Later on they were also shown to the general U.S... :The Battle of Russia 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.The film begins with an overview of previous failed attempts to conquer Russia: by the Teutonic Knights in 1242 , by Charles XII of Sweden in 1704 The Battle of Russia is...	Frank Capra Frank Capra Frank Russell Capra was a Sicilian-born American film director. He emigrated to the U.S. when he was six, and eventually became a creative force behind major award-winning films during the 1930s and 1940s...	USASSD; USASC	Nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature Academy Award for Documentary Feature The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is among the most prestigious awards for documentary films.- Winners and nominees:Following the Academy's practice, films are listed below by the award year...
Wings Up Wings Up Wings Up was a propaganda short film produced by the US Air Force during World War II.Narrated by Clark Gable the short informed the youth of America about the Officers Candidate School of the Army Air Forces. It emphasized that while usually these courses would take years, the country was at war...		OWI; WACMPI; First Motion Picture Unit, United States Army Air Forces	Narrated by Clark Gable Clark Gable William Clark Gable , known as Clark Gable, was an American film actor most famous for his role as Rhett Butler in the 1939 Civil War epic film Gone with the Wind, in which he starred with Vivien Leigh...
You, John Jones! You, John Jones! You, John Jones! is a short film directed by Mervyn LeRoy, written by Carey Wilson and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and starring James Cagney, Ann Sothern, and Margaret O'Brien...	Mervyn LeRoy Mervyn LeRoy Mervyn LeRoy was an American film director, producer and sometime actor.-Early life:Born to Jewish parents in San Francisco, California, his family was financially ruined by the 1906 earthquake...	WACMPI;	Dramatic short starring James Cagney James Cagney James Francis Cagney, Jr. was an American actor, first on stage, then in film, where he had his greatest impact. Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances, he is best remembered for playing "tough guys." In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him eighth...

1944  

Title	Director	Agencies or Organizations involved	Notes
The 957th Day The 957th Day The 957th Day was a propaganda short produced by the US Navy in 1944.The film uses authentic battle footage of the taking of Guam on July 21, 1944, and one narration follows the battle chronologically, while another narration mimics a radio news caster voice...		USN; OWI
America's Hidden Weapon		WACMPI; OWI
The Articles of War		USASC
At His Side		WACMPI; ARC	Activities of the Red Cross for that year
Attack in the Pacific Attack in the Pacific Attack in the Pacific is a 1944 American war documentary film.- Cast :*Henry H...
Attack! Battle of New Britain Attack! Battle of New Britain Attack! Battle of New Britain was a documentary/propaganda film produced by the US military in 1944. It detailed, as its name implies, the New Britain campaign, which was part of the New Guinea and Solomon Islands Campaigns during World War II....	Robert Presnell Sr.
The B-17 'Flying Fortress': Elementary Ground Work		USAAF
B-29 Flight Procedure and Combat Crew Functioning		USAAF
The Battle for the Marianas		USDW; WACMPI
Battle Stations		USCG; WACMPI	Concerns women's Coast guard auxiliary, SPARS SPARS SPARS was the United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve, created 23 November 1942 with the signing of Public Law 773 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The name is a contraction of the Coast Guard motto: Semper Paratus and its English translation Always Ready...
Fighting Americans	Max Dresner	Toddy Pictures Co.	Race film made in co-operation with the US Govt.
The Fighting Lady The Fighting Lady The Fighting Lady is a documentary/propaganda film produced by the U.S. Navy.The plot of the film revolves around the life of seamen on board an anonymous aircraft carrier. Because of war time restrictions, the name of the aircraft carrier was disguised as "the Fighting Lady"; afterwards the...	Edward Steichen Edward Steichen Edward J. Steichen was an American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator. He was the most frequently featured photographer in Alfred Stieglitz' groundbreaking magazine Camera Work during its run from 1903 to 1917. Steichen also contributed the logo design and a custom typeface...	USN	Won an Academy Award for Documentary Feature Academy Award for Documentary Feature The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is among the most prestigious awards for documentary films.- Winners and nominees:Following the Academy's practice, films are listed below by the award year...
Freedom Comes High Freedom Comes High Freedom Comes High is a 1943 dramatic short film commissioned by the United States Government during World War II and directed by Lewis Allen.-Synopsis:...	Lewis Allen Lewis Allen (director) Lewis Allen was an English film and television director. Allen worked mainly in the United States, directing 18 feature films between 1944 and 1959...	USN	Dramatic short
Gracias Amigos Gracias Amigos Gracias Amigos was a 1944 propaganda short produced by the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs to educate the American public about the contributions of Latin America during the war....		OIAA	Latin American contributions to the war effort
Highballing to Victory Highballing to Victory Highballing to Victory is a short US propaganda film made toward the end of World War II about the importance of material and transportation in the war effort....		APSC; WACMPI
How to Fly the B-25		USN; WACMPI
How to Fly the B-26 Airplane		USN; WACMPI
Hymn of the Nations Hymn of the Nations Hymn of the Nations, originally titled Arturo Toscanini: Hymn of the Nations , is a film directed by Alexander Hammid, which features a patriotic work for tenor soloist, chorus, and orchestra, composed by Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi in the early-1860s...	Alexander Hammid	OWI	nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.-1940s:*1941...
It Can't Last		USN;
It's Murder		WACMPI
It's Your War Too It's Your War Too It's Your War Too is a 1944 short documentary film about the American Women's Army Corps and commissioned by the United States Government during World War II. It contains 1 minute of animation by the Walt Disney Studios....		WACMPI; USDW; USASC	Concerns women's Army auxiliary WACS Women's Army Corps The Women's Army Corps was the women's branch of the US Army. It was created as an auxiliary unit, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps on 15 May 1942 by Public Law 554, and converted to full status as the WAC in 1943...
Liberation of Rome		APS; OWI; WACMPI; British Service Units
Land and Live in the Jungle		USAAF
Memo for Joe	Richard Fleischer Richard Fleischer -Early life:Fleischer was born in Brooklyn, the son of Essie and animator/producer Max Fleischer. He started in motion pictures as director of animated shorts produced by his father including entries in the Betty Boop, Popeye and Superman series.His live-action film career began in 1942 at the RKO...	WACMPI
Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress is a 1944 documentary film which ostensibly provides an account of the final mission of the crew of the Memphis Belle, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. In May 1943 it became the first U.S...	William Wyler William Wyler William Wyler was a leading American motion picture director, producer, and screenwriter.Notable works included Ben-Hur , The Best Years of Our Lives , and Mrs. Miniver , all of which won Wyler Academy Awards for Best Director, and also won Best Picture...	First Motion Picture Unit, United States Army Air Forces
Motion Pictures on the Fighting Front
Movies at War		USDW; WACMPI
The Negro Soldier The Negro Soldier The United States Army's First Motion Picture Unit created the documentary The Negro Soldier in 1944 during World War II. The film was produced by Frank Capra as a follow up to his successful film series Why We Fight. The army used this film as a means of propaganda to convince African Americans...	Stuart Heisler Stuart Heisler Stuart Heisler was an American film and television director. He worked as a motion picture editor from 1921 to 1936, then dedicated the rest of his career to that of a film director....	USDW; WACMPI
No Alternative		WACMPI; OWI
One Inch from Victory
The Price of Rendova The Price of Rendova The Price of Rendova was a propaganda film created by the US Army Signal Corps in 1944. It documents the taking of Rendova Island and Munda in the Solomon Islands....		USA; WACMPI
Report from the Front		OWI	Narrated by Humphrey Bogart Humphrey Bogart Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an American actor. He is widely regarded as a cultural icon.The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema....
Report to Judy		WACMPI; OWI	Concerns the women's naval auxiliary WAVES WAVES The WAVES were a World War II-era division of the U.S. Navy that consisted entirely of women. The name of this group is an acronym for "Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service" ; the word "emergency" implied that the acceptance of women was due to the unusual circumstances of the war and...
Return to Guam Return to Guam Return to Guam was a 1944 short propaganda film produced by the US Navy about the taking and recapture of the island of Guam.The film starts with a ship convoy nearing the island sees strange lights flashing from the island in the Morse code "information"...		USN
Road to Victory	LeRoy Prinz	WACMPI
Supervising Women Workers Supervising Women Workers Supervising Women Workers was a short social guidance film produced by the US Office of Education and aimed at male foremen who now had to supervise women for war work....		USOE
Target: Japan		USN; WACMPI
Tunisian Victory Tunisian Victory Tunisian Victory is a 1944 Anglo-American propaganda film about the victories in the North Africa Campaign.The film follows both armies from the planning of Operation Torch / Operation Acrobat to the liberation of Tunis...	Frank Capra Frank Capra Frank Russell Capra was a Sicilian-born American film director. He emigrated to the U.S. when he was six, and eventually became a creative force behind major award-winning films during the 1930s and 1940s...  and Hugh Stewart	USASC; British Service Units
The War Speeds Up
What Makes a Battle What Makes a Battle What Makes a Battle was a propaganda short produced by the US Army Pictoral Service in 1944. It documents the taking of the Marshall Islands while also encouraging increased war production....		USAPS (with co-operation of USASC, USN, USMC etc.)
Why of Wartime Taxes		WACMPI; OWI
Why We Fight Why We Fight Why We Fight is a series of seven war information training films commissioned by the United States government during World War II whose purpose was to show American soldiers the reason for U.S. involvement in the war. Later on they were also shown to the general U.S... : The Battle of China The Battle of China The Battle of China was the sixth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series. It follows an introduction to Chinese culture and history with the modern history of China and the founding of the Republic of China by Sun Yat-sen, leading on to the Japanese invasion...	Frank Capra Frank Capra Frank Russell Capra was a Sicilian-born American film director. He emigrated to the U.S. when he was six, and eventually became a creative force behind major award-winning films during the 1930s and 1940s...	USASSD; USASC	Second Sino-Japanese War Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany , the Soviet Union and the United States...
With the Marines at Tarawa With the Marines at Tarawa With the Marines at Tarawa is a 1944 short propaganda documentary film directed by Louis Hayward. It used authentic footage taken at the Battle of Tarawa to tell the story of the American servicemen from the time they get the news that they are to participate in the invasion to the final taking of...	Louis Hayward Louis Hayward Louis Charles Hayward was a British actor born in South Africa.-Biography:Born in Johannesburg, Hayward began his screen work in British films, notably as Simon Templar in Leslie Charteris' The Saint in New York.] In 1939 he played a dual role in The Man in the Iron Mask.During World War II,...	WACMPI; OWI	Authentic footage of the Battle of Tarawa Battle of Tarawa The Battle of Tarawa, code named Operation Galvanic, was a battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II, largely fought from November 20 to November 23, 1943. It was the first American offensive in the critical central Pacific region.... , filmed by the photographers of the 2nd Marine Division; won an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.-1940s:*1941...

1945  

Title	Director	Agencies or Organizations involved	Notes
6th Marine Division on Okinawa 6th Marine Division on Okinawa The 6th Marine Division on Okinawa is a 1945 Kodachrome color documentary film produced about the action of its 6th Division during the Battle of Okinawa...		USMC	Battle of Okinawa Battle of Okinawa The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945...
Airborne Lifeboat Airborne lifeboat Airborne lifeboats were powered lifeboats that were made to be dropped by fixed-wing aircraft into water to aid in air-sea rescue operations. An airborne lifeboat was to be carried by a heavy bomber specially modified to handle the external load of the lifeboat...		USAAF
The All-Star Bond Rally	Michael Audley Michael Audley Michael Audley was an American film director and dialogue advisor.His most notable film as a director is The Mark of the Hawk although he assisted on The Naked Maja .-External links:...	USDT; WACMPI;
Appointment in Tokyo Appointment in Tokyo Appointment in Tokyo is a 1945 propaganda film released Produced by the Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps, with the cooperation of the Army Air Forces and the United States Navy, and released by Warner Bros. for the War Activities Committee shortly after the surrender of Japan...	Jack Hively	USN; USASC;USAAF; WACMPI; APS	South West Pacific theatre of World War II South West Pacific theatre of World War II The South West Pacific Theatre, technically the South West Pacific Area, between 1942 and 1945, was one of two designated area commands and war theatres enumerated by the Combined Chiefs of Staff of World War II in the Pacific region....
The Army Nurse The Army Nurse The Army Nurse is a short documentary propaganda film commissioned by the US military to highlight the role and contributions of army nurses....		APS;USASC;USDW
The Atom Strikes! The Atom Strikes! The Atom Strikes is a document commissioned by the U.S. Army Signal Corps Pictoral Division shortly after the end of the Second World War. It documents the findings of a commission sent to Japan to assess the damage caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Opening with the blast of...		APS;USASC;USDW	Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted two atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, the first on August 6, 1945, and the second on August 9, 1945. These two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date.For six months...
The Battle of San Pietro The Battle of San Pietro The Battle of San Pietro is a 1945 documentary film directed by John Huston about the Battle of San Pietro Infine during World War II. It was shot by Jules Buck.Huston and his crew were attached to the US Army’s 143rd regiment of the 36th division...	John Huston John Huston John Marcellus Huston was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The Asphalt Jungle , The African Queen , Moulin Rouge...	WACMPI; APS	Battle of San Pietro Infine Battle of San Pietro Infine The Battle of San Pietro Infine was a major engagement from 8–17 December 1943, in the Italian Campaign of World War II involving Allied Forces attacking from the south against heavily fortified positions of the German "Winter Line" in and around the town of San Pietro Infine, just south of Monte...
Birth of the B-29 Birth of the B-29 Birth of the B-29 was a 1945 propaganda film commissioned by the US War Department. As the name implies, it concerned the production of the B-29 Superfortress bomber and its use in the aerial bombing of Japan in World War II....		APS;AAF;USDW
Brought to Action		USN;WACMPI
Bulletin on the Okinawa Operation Okinawa Bulletins The Okinawa Bulletins were a two-part series of films made by the United States Marine Corps documenting the Battle of Okinawa in the summer of 1945.-Bulletin of the Okinawa Operation MOB-56:...		USMC	Battle of Okinawa Battle of Okinawa The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945...
Carriers Hit Tokyo!	Ed Herlihy Ed Herlihy Edward Joseph "Ed" Herlihy was an American newsreel narrator for Universal-International. His voice was heard in countless films on every subject, making him one of the best-known voices in broadcast history...	Universal Studios Universal Studios Universal Pictures , a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, is one of the six major movie studios....	5 min. 19 s, archive.org
D-Day: The Normandy Invasion			Operation Overlord Operation Overlord Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces. The operation commenced on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings...
D-Day -1 D-Day -1 D-Day - 1 was a short propaganda film produced shortly before the end of the Second World War to boost the 7th war bond drive. It focused on the experiences of American paratroopers and gliders who went into Normandy prior to the sea borne invasion....			Operation Overlord Operation Overlord Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces. The operation commenced on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings...
Death Mills Death Mills Death Mills, or Die Todesmühlen, is a 1945 American propaganda documentary film directed by Billy Wilder and produced by the United States Department of War. It was intended for German audiences to educate them about the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime...	Billy Wilder Billy Wilder Billy Wilder was an Austro-Hungarian born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age...	USASC	Holocaust
The Enemy Strikes The Enemy Strikes The Enemy Strikes! is a short propaganda film made in 1945 about the Battle of the Bulge. Its main emphasis is that, despite recent Allied victories, the Axis could still launch a counter-attack and that this was no time to get complacent....		WACMPI; APS	Battle of the Bulge Battle of the Bulge The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive , launched toward the end of World War II through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region of Wallonia in Belgium, hence its French name , and France and...
The Fight for the Sky The Fight for the Sky 'The Fight for the Sky' was a short propaganda film commissioned by the US government to highlight the victories of the Allied air forces over Europe prior to the Normandy invasion....		WACMPI;USAAF	Air war over Europe; Narrated by Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....
The Fleet That Came to Stay The Fleet That Came to Stay The Fleet That Came to Stay was a propaganda short film produced by the US Navy in 1945 about the naval engagements of the invasion of Okinawa.The film opens with the small talk of the American GIs soon after they find out where they are headed...	Budd Boetticher Budd Boetticher Oscar "Budd" Boetticher, Jr. was a film director during the classical period in Hollywood most famous for the series of low-budget Westerns he made in the late 1950s starring Randolph Scott.Known for their sparse style, dramatic rocky locations near Lone Pine, California, and recurring stories of...	WACMPI; OWI	Battle of Okinawa Battle of Okinawa The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945...
Fury in the Pacific Fury in the Pacific Fury in the Pacific is a 1945 American documentary short film about a pair of World War II battles in the Pacific: the Battle of Peleliu and the Battle of Angaur. It was co-produced by the United States Army, United States Navy, and the United States Marines, and directed by a series of combat...		WACMPI; USA; USN; USMC
Glamour Gal Glamour Gal Glamour Gal is a 1945 propaganda film documentary film about the eponymous large artillery gun and the ten Marines who work her, "a team of eleven".-Overview:...		USMC	Artillery in the Battle of Iwo Jima Battle of Iwo Jima The Battle of Iwo Jima , or Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Empire of Japan. The U.S...
Here is Germany Here Is Germany Here is Germany was a 1945 propaganda documentary film directed by Frank Capra. Like its companion film, Know Your Enemy: Japan, the film is a full-length exploration of why one of the two major Axis countries started World War II and what had to be done to keep them from "doing it again".The film...	Frank Capra Frank Capra Frank Russell Capra was a Sicilian-born American film director. He emigrated to the U.S. when he was six, and eventually became a creative force behind major award-winning films during the 1930s and 1940s...		Occupation orientation
Hollywood Victory Caravan Hollywood Victory Caravan The Hollywood Victory Caravan was a three-week railroad journey of 1942 that brought a number of famous performers across the United States to raise money for war bonds. Along the way there were numerous stops, which coincided with parades, performances, and other events. Some performers were...	William D. Russell William D. Russell William D. Russell was an American film and television director. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana on April 30, 1908, he began his Hollywood career with the 1945 film Hollywood Victory Caravan. His career in film ended with his last film, 1951's Best of the Badmen...	WACMPI; USDT	Hollywood USO
Intelligence and the Japanese Civilian Intelligence and the Japanese Civilian Intelligence and the Japanese Civilian was a 1945 film produced by the US Marine Corps, to instruct Marines on how they should handle the civilian population of Japan during the post-war occupation....		USMC	Occupation orientation
The Last Bomb The Last Bomb The Last Bomb was a 1945 propaganda film mainly concerning the conventional phase of the bombing of Japan in 1945. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature....	Frank Lloyd Frank Lloyd Frank Lloyd was a film director, scriptwriter and producer...	USAAF	Operation Matterhorn Operation Matterhorn Operation Matterhorn was a military operations plan of the United States Army Air Forces in World War II for the strategic bombing of Japanese forces by B-29 Superfortresses based in India and China. Targets included Japan itself, and Japanese bases in China and South East Asia... ; Nominated for Academy Award for Documentary Feature Academy Award for Documentary Feature The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is among the most prestigious awards for documentary films.- Winners and nominees:Following the Academy's practice, films are listed below by the award year...
Know Your Enemy: Japan Know Your Enemy: Japan Know Your Enemy: Japan is an American propaganda film directed by Frank Capra, commissioned by the U.S. War Department. Completion was delayed by disputes between the Hollywood producers and Washington. The original intention of the film was to prepare U.S...	Frank Capra Frank Capra Frank Russell Capra was a Sicilian-born American film director. He emigrated to the U.S. when he was six, and eventually became a creative force behind major award-winning films during the 1930s and 1940s...  and Joris Ivens Joris Ivens Joris Ivens was a Dutch documentary filmmaker and committed communist.-Early life and career:...
Mr. and Mrs. America Mr. and Mrs. America Mr. and Mrs. America was a propaganda short produced by the US Department of Treasury in 1945 to urge citizens to buy and keep war bonds.Mr. and Mrs. America contains a series of pre-taped messages from leading figures in American life, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, the presidents of the AFL,...		USDT	Bond drive
My Japan My Japan My Japan is a 1945 American anti-Japanese propaganda short film produced to spur sale of American war bonds. The film takes the form of a mock travelogue of Japan, presented by an impersonated Japanese narrator.- Background :...		USDT
The Negro Sailor	Henry Levin Henry Levin Henry Levin began as a stage actor and director but was most notable as an American film director of over fifty feature films. He broke into film in 1943 as a dialogue director for the films Dangerous Blondes and Appointment in Berlin for Columbia Pictures...	USN
Okinawa Bulletin #2: Final Phases Okinawa Bulletins The Okinawa Bulletins were a two-part series of films made by the United States Marine Corps documenting the Battle of Okinawa in the summer of 1945.-Bulletin of the Okinawa Operation MOB-56:...		USMC	Battle of Okinawa Battle of Okinawa The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945...
On to Tokyo		WACMPI; APS
Our Job in Japan Our Job in Japan Our Job in Japan was a United States military training film made in 1945, shortly after World War II. It is the companion to the more famous Your Job In Germany. The film was aimed at American troops about to go to Japan to participate in the 1945-1952 Allied Occupation, and presents the problem of...		WACMPI; APS
Pearl Harbor Payback			Air Force dogfights and B-29 raids on Japan
Remember These Faces Remember These Faces Remember These Faces is a 1945 short film produced by the United States Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard. It encourages people to contribute to the 7th War Bond drive by following the typical American serviceman from his landing on an unnamed Pacific island, combat, his being wounded in action, and...		USN; USCG; USMC	Wounded in Action Wounded in action Wounded in action describes soldiers who have been wounded while fighting in a combat zone during war time, but have not been killed. Typically it implies that they are temporarily or permanently incapable of bearing arms or continuing to fight....  marines and sailors in the Pacific
Seeing Them Through		WACMPI; American Red Cross	Activities of the Red Cross the previous year
The Ship That Wouldn't Die
Story with Two Endings	Lee Strasberg Lee Strasberg Lee Strasberg was an American actor, director and acting teacher. He cofounded, with directors Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford, the Group Theatre in 1931, which was hailed as "America's first true theatrical collective"...
The Stilwell Road The Stilwell Road (film) The Stilwell Road was a propaganda film produced by the American Office of War Information and the British and Indian film units in 1945 detailing the creation of the Ledo Road, also known as the Stilwell Road after the U.S. General Joseph Stilwell...		USASC; British and Indian film units	Narrated by Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....
The Story of the 14th Air Force The Story of the 14th Air Force The Story of the 14th Air Force was a 40-minute propaganda film produced by the US Army Air Force circa 1945.The film opens by showing China as it was before the Japanese occupation, the industry, professions etc, and then moves on to its conquest by the Japanese, and the struggling Nationalists in...		Photographers of the 14th Air Force	The Flying Tigers Flying Tigers The 1st American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force in 1941–1942, famously nicknamed the Flying Tigers, was composed of pilots from the United States Army , Navy , and Marine Corps , recruited under presidential sanction and commanded by Claire Lee Chennault. The ground crew and headquarters...
Target Tokyo Target Tokyo Target Tokyo is a 22-minute film portraying the travels of an aircraft bomber and its crew from training to the bombing of Japan....		USAAF
Target Invisible Target Invisible Target Invisible was an 1945 short produced by the Department of Treasury. It follows a squadron of bombers from their base in the Marianas through their mission over Tokyo. Particular emphasis is given on the use of radar, and how it was instrumental in winning the war...		DOT	The use of Radar in the War
Time to Kill		USAAF; USN
To the Shores of Iwo Jima To the Shores of Iwo Jima To the Shores of Iwo Jima is a 1945 Kodachrome color short war film produced by the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. It documents the Battle of Iwo Jima, and was the first time that American audiences saw in color the footage of the famous flag raising on Iwo Jima.-Overview:The...		OWI; WACMPI	Nominated for Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.-1940s:*1941...
The Town	Josef von Sternberg Josef von Sternberg Josef von Sternberg — born Jonas Sternberg — was an Austrian-American film director. He is particularly noted for his distinctive mise en scène, use of lighting and soft lens, and seven-film collaboration with actress Marlene Dietrich.-Youth:Von Sternberg was born Jonas Sternberg to a Jewish...	OWI; WACMPI
Tuesday in November Tuesday in November Tuesday in November was a propaganda short about the 1944 United States presidential election produced by the Office of War information for overseas distribution...	John Houseman John Houseman John Houseman was a Romanian-born British-American actor and film producer who became known for his highly publicized collaboration with director Orson Welles from their days in the Federal Theatre Project through to the production of Citizen Kane...	OWI; WACMPI
The True Glory The True Glory The True Glory was a 1945 co-production of the US Office of War Information and the British Ministry of Information, documenting the victory on the Western Front, from Normandy to the collapse of the Third Reich. Although many individuals contributed to the film, British director Carol Reed is...	Garson Kanin Garson Kanin Garson Kanin was a prolific American writer and director of plays and films.-Film and stage career:...  and Carol Reed Carol Reed Sir Carol Reed was an English film director best known for Odd Man Out , The Fallen Idol , The Third Man and Oliver!...	OWI; British Ministry of Information	Won Academy Award for Documentary Feature Academy Award for Documentary Feature The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is among the most prestigious awards for documentary films.- Winners and nominees:Following the Academy's practice, films are listed below by the award year...
Two Down and One to Go Two Down and One to Go Two Down and One to Go was a short propaganda film produced in 1945; as its title might suggest, its overall message was that the first two Axis powers, Italy and Germany, had been defeated, but that one, Japan, still had to be dealt with....	Frank Capra	WACMPI; USAPS
The Two-Way Street		WACMPI	About the Lend-Lease Lend-Lease Lend-Lease was the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of war in Europe in...  program
Watchtower Over Tomorrow	John Cromwell John Cromwell (director) Elwood Dager Cromwell , known as John Cromwell, was an American film actor, director and producer.-Biography:...	OWI; WACMPI	Concerns Dumbarton Oaks Dumbarton Oaks Dumbarton Oaks is the conventional name for the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, situated on a historic property in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The institution is administered by the Trustees for Harvard University. Its founders, Robert Woods Bliss and his wife...  and the founding of the UN
Why We Fight Why We Fight Why We Fight is a series of seven war information training films commissioned by the United States government during World War II whose purpose was to show American soldiers the reason for U.S. involvement in the war. Later on they were also shown to the general U.S... :War Comes to America War Comes to America War Comes to America was the seventh and final film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight World War II propaganda film series.The early part of the film is an idealized version of American history which includes mention of the first settlements, the American Revolutionary War , and the ethnic diversity of...	Frank Capra Frank Capra Frank Russell Capra was a Sicilian-born American film director. He emigrated to the U.S. when he was six, and eventually became a creative force behind major award-winning films during the 1930s and 1940s...	USASSD; USASC
Wings for This Man Wings for This Man Wings for this Man is a propaganda film produced in 1945 by the U.S. Army Air Forces First Motion Picture Unit about the Tuskegee Airmen, the first unit of African-American pilots in the US military....		USAAF	About the Tuskegee Airmen Tuskegee Airmen The Tuskegee Airmen is the popular name of a group of African American pilots who fought in World War II. Formally, they were the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps.... . Narrated by Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....
Your Job In Germany Your Job In Germany Your Job In Germany is a short film made for the United States War Department in 1945 just before Victory in Europe day. It was shown to U.S. soldiers about to go on occupation duty in Germany. The film was made by the military films unit commanded by Frank Capra, and was written by Theodor...	Frank Capra Frank Capra Frank Russell Capra was a Sicilian-born American film director. He emigrated to the U.S. when he was six, and eventually became a creative force behind major award-winning films during the 1930s and 1940s...	USAAF	Written by Dr. Seuss Dr. Seuss Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer, poet, and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen names Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg and, in one case, Rosetta Stone.... . Concerns occupation of Germany

1946

Title	Director	Agencies or Organizations involved	Notes
A Tale of Two Cities		USDW; Army-Navy Screen Magazine	Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted two atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, the first on August 6, 1945, and the second on August 9, 1945. These two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date.For six months...
That Justice Be Done That Justice Be Done That Justice Be Done was a one-reel propaganda film made in 1946 by the Office of War Information for the US Chief of Counsel at Nuremberg and the War Crimes Office of the Judge Advocate General's Corps....		OWI; OSS; WACMPI	Nuremberg Trials Nuremberg Trials The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the victorious Allied forces of World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of the defeated Nazi Germany....
Seeds of Destiny Seeds of Destiny Seeds of Destiny is a 1946 short propaganda film about the despairing situation faced by millions of children in the wake of the Holocaust who were homeless, parentless, orphaned, and in poor health. The film was produced by the Defense Department of The U.S...	Gene Fowler Jr. Gene Fowler Jr. Gene Fowler Jr. , the eldest son of Gene Fowler, Denver, was a prominent Hollywood film editor. His work included films of Fritz Lang and Samuel Fuller and movies like Stanley Kramer's It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World , John Cassavetes' A Child is Waiting and Hang 'Em High .He was also the director...	USDW; UNRRA	Asks public for humanitarian aid to post-war Europe and Asia
Special Delivery		USDW; Army-Navy Screen Magazine	Operation Crossroads Operation Crossroads Operation Crossroads was a series of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. It was the first test of a nuclear weapon after the Trinity nuclear test in July 1945... (the atomic tests bombings on Bikini Atoll Bikini Atoll Bikini Atoll is an atoll, listed as a World Heritage Site, in the Micronesian Islands of the Pacific Ocean, part of Republic of the Marshall Islands.... )

1947

Title	Director	Agencies or Organizations involved	Notes
Don't Be a Sucker! Don't Be a Sucker! Don't Be a Sucker! is an anti-racist propaganda film produced by the US War Department in 1947. An American who has been listening to a racist rabble-rouser is warned off by a naturalized Hungarian immigrant, who explains to him how racist demagogy allowed the Nazis to rise to power in Germany,...		USDW	Anti-intolerance film
Thunderbolt! Thunderbolt! Thunderbolt! is a 1947 film documenting the American aerial operations of Operation Strangle in early 1944, when American flyers based on Corsica successfully impeded Axis supply lines to the Gustav Line and Anzio beachhead....		USDW	About US airstrikes in Italy; introduced by Jimmy Stewart

Year uncertain

Title	Director	Agencies or Organizations involved	Notes
Know Your Ally: Britain Know Your Ally: Britain Know Your Ally: Britain was a 45 minute propaganda film narrated by Walter Huston and produced by the United States War Department and Signal Corp to solidify Anglo-American solidarity within the ranks as well as counter Nazi propaganda aimed at weakening the Alliance.-Synopsis:The film opens with...		OWI; USASC
Ring of Steel		OEM	Recruiting short. Narrated by Spencer Tracy Spencer Tracy Spencer Bonaventure Tracy was an American theatrical and film actor, who appeared in 75 films from 1930 to 1967. Tracy was one of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, ranking among the top ten box office draws for almost every year from 1938 to 1951...
Training Women For War Production Training Women for War Production Training Women for War Production is a short film.Eleanor Roosevelt, who was already a big supporter of the National Youth Administration, introduced and narrated this short film for the NYA during the Second World War.The film opens with Mrs...		NYA	Narrated by Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an international...
Victory Gardens Victory garden Victory gardens, also called war gardens or food gardens for defense, were vegetable, fruit and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Germany during World War I and World War II to reduce the pressure on the public food supply...		USDA

Netherlands and Belgium

The low countries

Low Countries

The Low Countries are the historical lands around the low-lying delta of the Rhine, Scheldt, and Meuse rivers, including the modern countries of Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and parts of northern France and western Germany....

 were overrun by Nazi Germany in the May–June 1940 blitzkrieg. The Dutch East Indies, the Netherlands most important colony, was conquered by Japan in early 1942. However each had a government in exile which set up the Belgian Ministry of Information and Netherlands Information Bureau, which produced the following films. There were also films made by the resistance while the respective countries were occupied.

Year	Title	Director	Agency	Notes
1941	Belgique toujours	Hippolyte De Kempeneer	Belgian resistance movement	Dutch title: Immer België; English title Forever Belgium
1942	Little Belgium		Belgian Ministry of Information	Nominated for Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.-1940s:*1941...
1942	People of the Indies		Netherlands Information Bureau
1942	Holland in the Western Hemisphere		Netherlands Information Bureau
1942	High Stakes in the East		Netherlands Information Bureau
1942	The Dutch Next Door		Netherlands Information Bureau
1943	Glorious Colours	Alfred Travers Alfred Travers -Selected filmography:* Men of Tomorrow * Glorious Colours * Meet the Navy * The Strangers Came * Solution by Phone * Don Giovanni * The Primitives * One for the Pot...	Netherlands Information Bureau

Soviet Union

In the Soviet Union, unless otherwise noted, the Central Newsreel Studio produced these films.

Year	Title	Director	Original title	Note
1941	For the Front	Gurgen Balasanyan	Razmatchakati hamar	Produced by Armkinokhronika
1942	Day of War	Mikhail Slutsky	День войны/Den voiny
1942	Leningrad in Combat	Roman Karmen Roman Karmen Roman Lazarevich Karmen was a Soviet war camera-man and film director and one of the most influential figures in documentary film making; insofar as his propaganda is concerned he could be considered USSR's answer to Leni Riefenstahl, though the comparison is by no means absolute.-Communist...	Ленинград в борьбе/Leningrad v borbe
1942	Crushing Defeat of the German Troops under Moscow Moscow Strikes Back Moscow Strikes Back is a Soviet war documentary about Battle of Moscow made in October 1941 – January 1942 directed by Leonid Varlamov and Ilya Kopalin.In USSR film was awarded the Stalin Prize....	Ilya Kopalin	Разгром немецких войск под Москвой
1943	Ukraine in Flames	Aleksandr Dovzhenko & Yuliya Solntseva Yuliya Solntseva Yuliya Ippolitovna Solntseva was a Soviet film director and actress who starred in the silent sci-fi classic Aelita . She directed 14 films between 1939 and 1979...	Битва за нашу Советскую Украину
1943	The People's Avengers	Vasili Belayev	Народные мстители/Narodniye mstiteli
1943	Stalingrad	Leonid Varlamov
1943	The City That Stopped Hitler: Heroic Stalingrad			Narrated by Brian Donlevy Brian Donlevy Brian Donlevy was an Irish-born American film actor, noted for playing tough guys from the 1930s to the 1960s. He usually appeared in supporting roles. Among his best known films are Beau Geste and The Great McGinty...
1943	In the Sands of Central Asia	Aleksandr Zguridi	В песках Средней Азии/V peskakh Sredney Azii
1943	Przysiegamy ziemi polskiej	Aleksander Ford Aleksander Ford Aleksander Ford born Mosze Lifszyc was a Polish film director; and head of the Polish People's Army Film Crew in the Soviet Union. Ford became director of the nationalized "Film Polski" company at the end of World War II...
1944	Sons of Armenia	Gurgen Balasanyan	Hayastani zavaknere	Produced by Armkinokhronika
1944	K voprosu o peremirii s Finlyandiey	Yuli Raizman Yuli Raizman Yuli Yakovlevich Raizman was a Soviet Russian film director and screenwriter. His film Private Life was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.-Selected filmography:* The Earth Thirsts...		Produced by Sojuzintorgkino Studios
1945	Fall of Berlin – 1945	Yuli Raizman Yuli Raizman Yuli Yakovlevich Raizman was a Soviet Russian film director and screenwriter. His film Private Life was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.-Selected filmography:* The Earth Thirsts...  & Yelizaveta Svilova Yelizaveta Svilova Yelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova was a Russian filmmaker and film editor. She was a lifelong collaborator with her husband, Dziga Vertov. She is best known as supervising editor on Man with a Movie Camera...	Битва за Берлин 1945 г.
1945	Victory in the Ukraine and the Expulsion of the Germans from the Boundaries of the Ukrainian Soviet Earth	Aleksandr Dovzhenko & Yelizaveta Svilova Yelizaveta Svilova Yelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova was a Russian filmmaker and film editor. She was a lifelong collaborator with her husband, Dziga Vertov. She is best known as supervising editor on Man with a Movie Camera...	Pobeda na Pravoberezhnoi Ukraine i izgnaniye nemetsikh zakhvatchikov za predeli Ukrainskikh sovietskikh zemel
1945	The Rout of Japan	Iosif Kheifits Iosif Kheifits Iosif Kheifits was a Soviet film director, winner of two Stalin Prizes , People's Artist of USSR , Hero of Socialist Labor . Member of the Communist Party of Soviet Union since 1945....	Razgrom Yaponii

Soviet films made for foreign markets

In addition to the above the Soviet cinema import company Artkino produced the following for foreign markets.

Year	Title	Director	Note
1942	Our Russian Front Our Russian Front Our Russian Front is a 1942 American documentary film directed by Joris Ivens and Lewis Milestone, and narrated by Walter Huston to promote support for the Soviet Union's war effort.-Film:...	Joris Ivens Joris Ivens Joris Ivens was a Dutch documentary filmmaker and committed communist.-Early life and career:...  & Lewis Milestone Lewis Milestone Lewis Milestone was a Russian-American motion picture director. He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights and All Quiet on the Western Front , both of which received Academy Awards for Best Director...	Narrated by Walter Huston Walter Huston Walter Thomas Huston was a Canadian-born American actor. He was the father of actor and director John Huston and the grandfather of actress Anjelica Huston and actor Danny Huston.-Life and career:...
1942	Moscow Strikes Back Moscow Strikes Back Moscow Strikes Back is a Soviet war documentary about Battle of Moscow made in October 1941 – January 1942 directed by Leonid Varlamov and Ilya Kopalin.In USSR film was awarded the Stalin Prize....	Ilya Kopalin & Leonid Varlamov	Nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.-1940s:*1941...
1943	Russians at War
1947	The Nuremberg Trials Nuremberg Trials (film) The Nuremberg Trials was a Soviet-made documentary film about the trials of the Nazi leadership. It was produced by Roman Karmen, and was an English-language version of the Russian language film Суд народов ....	C Svilov	Soviet view of the Nuremberg Trials Nuremberg Trials The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the victorious Allied forces of World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of the defeated Nazi Germany....

See also

• List of films made in the Third Reich
• List of Holocaust films
• List of World War II films
• List of films based on war books