War Comes to America (1945)

Directors

Anatole Litvak, Frank Capra

Cast

Albert Speer, Benito Mussolini, Dean Acheson, Haile Selassie I, Hermann Göring, Lloyd Nolan, Rudolf Hess, Walter Huston

The story

The early part of the film is an idealized version of American history, which mentions the first settlements, the American Revolutionary War (omitting the American Civil War), and the ethnic diversity of America. It lists 22 immigrant nationalities, 19 of them European and uses the then-current terms "Negro," "Jap," and "Chinaman." This section of the film concludes with a lengthy paean to American inventiveness, economic abundance, and social ideals. The run-up to World War II is then described beginning in 1931 with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

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