01 January 1944 Factual, War 42 mins
Know Your Ally: Britain was a 45-minute propaganda film made in 1944. It was narrated by Walter Huston and produced by the United States War Department and Signal Corp to solidify Anglo-American solidarity within the ranks as well as counter Nazi propaganda aimed at weakening the Alliance.
Watch the official Know Your Ally: Britain 1944 trailer in HD below or find more Know Your Ally: Britain videos on Vidimovie.
Walter Huston as Narrator
Ernest Bevin as Self (archive footage)
Winston Churchill as Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage)
Herbert Morrison as Self (archive footage)
Louis Mountbatten as Self (archive footage)
Benito Mussolini as Self (archive footage)
Franklin D. Roosevelt as Self (archive footage)
Orson Welles as Narrator/Bob (helpful taxi passenger)
Robert Stevenson Director
United States 01 January 1944
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More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from Know Your Ally: Britain:
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From pre-war complacency to the burdens of wartime taxation and shortages this filmed record demonstrates the courage and resourcefulness of the British ...
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01 April 1944
A manufacturer and an impresario (who has promised some young people he will stage their show) are twin brothers causes a lot of confusion when the manufacturer is mistaken for his no-money brother.
26 July 1944
The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men.
21 September 1944
Romantic triangles between city folk and country folk, with new money/old money issues complicating the story.
04 November 1944
Dan Stanton and Condon are foreclosing on a group of ranchers in order to gain a land-monopoly. They have one of the ranchers, whose property supplies the others with water, killed.
01 January 1944
Nora and Stefan fall in love with one another after an accident takes place, but then end up losing sight of one another later on.
31 December 1944
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30 December 1944
Having been falsely court marshaled for cowardice and sentenced to prison by the Army, Jed Kilton escapes and heads to Nevada Springs to see his kid brother.
03 March 1944
Celebrated elderly Austrian poet opposes nazism, while his daughter admires and falls in love with leading nazi activist, who eventually becomes concentration camp commander with his father-in-law as prisoner.
02 January 1944
After finding his wife in the arms of another man, an army officer kills his rival and then goes by train to Finland to fight in the Winter war.
25 December 1944
Arturo Salazar is a powerful businessman who wants to be related to the nobility, so he asks an aristocratic friend to find him a blue-blooded bride.
28 July 1944
A modest employee of exemplary behavior is mistakenly accused of committing a major fraud.
28 April 1944
Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and Hazel Court, a nurse, come across a pair of rare birds nestling in a field.
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1944 U.S. Army Signal Corps, U.S. War Department.
