Know Your Enemy: Japan

Know Your Enemy: Japan is an American propaganda film directed by Frank Capra, produced by the U.S. War Department, and released in 1945. The original intention of the film was to prepare U.S. soldiers for war before deployment in the Pacific, though ultimately it never realized this purpose due to the war’s abrupt end soon after its release. When the U.S. entered WWII, Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall made an official request of director F... more

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Joris Ivens

Joris Ivens (18 November 1898, Nijmegen – 28 June 1989, Paris) was a Dutch documentary filmmaker and committed communist. Born into a wealthy family, Ivens...

Frank Capra

Frank Russell Capra (May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was an Sicilian-born American film director and a creative force behind a number of films of the 1930s...

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