24 December 1941 Factual, War 11 mins
Short documentary extolling the virtues and necessity for women to participate in America's preparation for war, showing women working in scientific, industrial, and voluntary-services activities. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.
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Katharine Hepburn as Narrator (voice)
Eleanor Roosevelt Writer
United States 24 December 1941
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01 February 1945
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25 January 1970
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12 December 1963
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.
01 April 1971
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13 June 1941
Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight.
01 January 1944
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01 January 1972
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02 January 1969
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01 October 1968
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08 November 1960
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More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from Women in Defense:
On wartime activities of women. Women feed guinea pigs and record their weights; attend nutrition lectures; design working clothes for women; sew uniforms ...
WOMEN IN DEFENSE - National Archives and Records Administration 1941 - ARC 38686 LI - DVD Copied by J. Williams. Series: Propaganda ...
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1941:
04 July 1941
After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands.
31 October 1941
Dumbo is a baby elephant born with over-sized ears and a supreme lack of confidence. But thanks to his even more diminutive buddy Timothy the Mouse, the pint-sized pachyderm learns to surmount all obstacles.
03 September 1941
FBI agents Allan Harper and Tommy Baker are in charge of a group of subversives, spies and saboteurs that the US government is deporting to foreign countries aboard a ship.
11 July 1941
Falsely accused of murder, Billy is able to escape thanks to his pals. Once in Santa Fe, he meets once again the man who lied during the trial.
10 January 1941
Tom Cameron is searching for the outlaws who ambushed a wagon train, murdered his parents and stole the deed to their land.
16 June 1941
A Soundie with Florence Gill, Redd Harper and The Sells.
21 October 1941
When a widower's five daughters find out that he has a fiancée, they hire an actress to seduce him in order to end the relationship.
24 January 1941
Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.
14 September 1941
Muslims and Crusaders conclude a truce during Richard the Lionheart's illness, and young Arabs seize this opportunity to join their armies in Jerusalem.
10 November 1941
Julius Berge has an advertising firm in Stockholm together with his wife Sonja. The man with the ideas is their colleague Kurt Dal, who used to be engaged to Sonja.
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