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Title: Back The Attack More Titles: The World At War, Keep 'Em Rolling, Men Of Tomorrow, Germany Calling, Have You Killed A Japanese Soldier Today?, It's Your America, Hands [1944], Myra Hess, Army Air Forces - Pacific, Just For Remembrance Publisher:   Mackinac Media Country: USA Format: DVD Date: 25 Jul 2006 Region Code: Region 0 Classification: NOT RATED Barcode: 094922594983 Cat#: MM0031D Genre: Documentary, History, War Rating: Rate Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  1 Owns Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Amazon web page has a good description of the disc content with the various films and music clips.

ACT ONE (films):

THE WORLD AT WAR (1942)
Premier OWI release tracing the origins of the war through Pearl Harbor; Written by Samuel and Bella Spewack; Narrated by Paul Stewart (Raymond in "Citizen Kane").

KEEP 'EM ROLLING (1942)
A Morale-boosting Anthem by tunesmiths Richard Rodgers and Lorenze Hart. Sung by Jan Peerce (of the Metropolitan Opera).

MEN OF TOMORROW (1942) Great Britain
Boy Scout activities and contributions to the war effort in war-weary England.

GERMANY CALLING (c1940)
Charles Ridley's amusing essay mocking Hitler and his goose-stepping Gestapo (aka "Schichlegruber Doing The Lambeth Walk Nazis Style"). The soundtrack is, for the first time in decades, synchronized correctly.

HAVE YOU KILLED A (JAP) SOLDIER TODAY? (c1944)
OWI hard-sell Bond Drive trailer.

ENTR'ACTE : Holiday Greetings
The sentimental longing of a family to be reunited juxtaposed with the realities of war. Created especially for this programme in 2006.

Hoch Der Lambeth Valk AKA Germany Calling Released 1941 Director Charles Ridley Writer Leni Riefenstahl Selected Cast Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage) Producer Leslie Winik (Information from Cinema World)

Keep 'Em Rolling Released 1942 Selected Cast Jan Peerce (Information from Cinema World)

Men Of Tomorrow Released 1942 Director Alfred Travers Writer Maxwell Munden as (commentary) Selected Cast Staney Newton as Narrator (voice) Producer Sydney Box   James Carr (Information from Cinema World)

The World At War Released 1942 Director Lowell Mellett Writer Sam Spewack Selected Cast Paul Stewart as Narrator (voice)   Franklin D. Roosevelt as Self (archive footage)   Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage) (Information from Cinema World)

It's Your America Released 1943 Director John Ford Selected Cast Ernest Cossart as English Pub Proprietor (uncredited)   Preston Foster as Army Surgeon (uncredited)   Arthur Kennedy as Soldier / Narrator (uncredited)   J. Carrol Naish as French Soldier (uncredited (Information from Cinema World)

Hands [1944] Released 1944 Producer Army Pictorial Service Signal Corps (Information from Cinema World)

Have You Killed A Japanese Soldier Today? Released 1944 Director Army Pictorial Service Signal Corps (Information from Cinema World)

Just For Remembrance Released 1944 Producer Army Pictorial Service Signal Corps (Information from Cinema World)

Army Air Forces - Pacific Released 1945 Selected Cast Henry H. Arnold as Self   Gordon Seagrave as Self   Ennis Whitehead as Self   James Doolittle as Self (uncredited)   George C. Kenney as Self (uncredited) (Information from Cinema World)

Myra Hess Released 1945 Director Humphrey Jennings Selected Cast Myra Hess as Herself - Pianist (Information from Cinema World)

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mikewn ● 26th Feb 2024		(Additional Notes) ACT TWO (films): IT'S YOUR AMERICA (c1943) Elaborate production stars Arthur Kennedy (disgruntled draftee); Preston Foster (field surgeon); J. Carroll Naish (French Officer); and Don ("Winslow Of The Navy") Terry as an infantryman, whose Lucky Penny signifies what America is all about. Stirring, tear-jerking finalé. HANDS (1944) Essay exploiting productive hands juxtaposed with those of the dead. MYRA HESS (1945) The famed pianist in a lunchtime concert at London's National Gallery, performing a work by Beethoven, a German; the significance of which was to send "a strong message to the enemies of Democracy that Brits could admire the culture of the German people while abhoring the politcal realities of the Nazi Reich". ARMY AIR FORCES -PACIFIC (1945)) The Flight Of The Enola Gay. Glorifies air-killing machines; and the preparation and delivery of the A bomb on Japan. JUST FOR REMEMBRANCE (c1944) ) Heart-wrenching, tear-filled Bond Drive finalé; a plea for war's end; to bring home the men, not the personal effects they left behind in death. BONUS FEATURES: American & German Propaganda Ditties; Juke Box Favourites; Lord Haw Haw & Germany Calling; The London Blitz and England's Future Queen; Popular Wartime Melodies. Juke Box Favorites: - Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree With Anyone Else But me - Andrew Sisters - Grey Haired Lady - I’ll Be Seeing You - The Hut Sut Song - White Cliffs of Dover - Juke Box Saturday Night Popular Wartime Melodies: - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy - The Andrews Sisters - Praise The Lord and Pass the Ammunition - The Merry Macs - We’ll Meet Again - Benny Goodman and his Orchestra featuring Peggy Lee - Rosie the Riveter - - Comin’ In On A Wing And A Prayer - Any Bonds Today? - Irving Berlin - That’s Sabotage - Fox Trot - Bell Bottom Trousers - Art Kassel and his “Kassels In The Air” Orchestra - When The Lights Go On Again (All Over the World - Vict/ry Polka - Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters Propaganda Ditties: - Der Fuehrer’s Face - Johnny Bond - Mussolini’s Letter to Hitler - Carson Robinson - You’re A Sap Mr. Jap - Andrew Sisters - Bye Bye Empire - Charlie & His Orchestra - Der Fuehrer’s Face - Spike jones & His City Slickers Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose Lord Haw Haw

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