Education for Peace (1950)

★★★ · Let's Sit on the Grass Some More · Dodsworth the Cat · 2025-01-14

The world had just come out of Depression and war. It was a time of hope, that all races, religions and nations could work for together for the benefit of humanity. Thus the American Friendship Service Committee existed, hoping to show, as the narrator says, "that all over the world, people are alike more ways than they are different." Five years after defeating Germany and Japan, young Germans and Japanese are shown in this film, happily exchanging cultural information with people from countries trying to kill them almost a decade earlier. Now, we have cynicism instead of hope; we have…