04 July 1943 History, Factual, War 23 mins
Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States. The film was made to make the case for the desegregation of the United States armed forces.
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Lloyd Nolan as Commentator (voice)
Paul Lukas as Hungarian Professor
Felix Bressart as Anti-Nazi Teacher
Richard Lane as Soapbox Orator
Robert Bailey as Mike
United States 04 July 1943
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15 January 1943
In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit.
02 April 1943
Tom Weston arriving in town just as the Doctor announces his father's death a suicide, sees the gun is in the wrong hand.
30 June 1943
A colonial wife carries on an affair with a French officer, but the wife's native servant may have overheard their plan to leave Africa and return to Europe together.
08 September 1943
In the Almenares family there is a story involving a mysterious woman and a pearl necklace that obsesses the young heir.
04 January 1943
A crusading district attorney tries to stop a local mob boss who has connections in high places.
17 May 1943
Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sheridan, Ronald Shiner and George Formby.
12 March 1943
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War.
20 May 1943
Caroline Bird, the crotchety and stingy owner of Bird Milk Products, is not amused when her employees at the Dairyville factory, the oldest plant in the company, broadcast a special radio program in honor of her birthday.
03 June 1943
An employee embezzles a sum belonging to the company where he works and loses it by making a wrong speculation.
01 December 1943
A teacher is handing out examination results to his students in an industrial school and he points out to them that work is the most important thing in a person's life.
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