Know Your Enemy: Japan (1945)
1945 · Feature film · 62 min · dir. Frank Capra
- Documentary
- War
- History
Synopsis
Know Your Enemy: Japan is an American World War II propaganda film about the war in the Pacific directed by Frank Capra, with additional direction by experimental documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens. The film, which was commissioned by the U.S. War Department, sought to educate American soldiers about Japan, its people, society and history, and its totalitarian militaristic government. However, the film never realized its full purpose because its completion was delayed by disputes between Hollywood and Washington, and the abrupt end of the Pacific War soon after the film's release in August 1945. The film's first public screening was in 1977 as part of a PBS special.
Synopsis from Wikipedia
Details
- Director
- Frank Capra
- Writer
- Edgar Peterson
- Studio
- U.S. War Department
- Released
- 1945-08-09
- Running time
- 62 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Picfixer Feature Films, Feature Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Documentaries
- Propaganda
- WW2
- Imperial Japan
- Walter Huston (voice uncredited)
- John Beal (voice uncredited)
- Howard Duff (voice uncredited)
- Knox Manning (voice uncredited)
Cast & crew
Frank Capra Director
John Beal
Howard Duff
Walter Huston
Knox Manning
