"Strange Victory" Ground Breaking (1948)

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Leo Hurwitz’s extraordinary documentary “Strange Victory” (1948) was the first significant post-WWII anti-racist, anti-fascist non-fiction films. It is composed of archival scenes of WWII destruction juxtaposed against newly shot sequences that portray inequity and unbalance in American society. Narrated by Alfred Drake, Muriel Smith, and Gary Merrill the film questions the discrepancies between the ideals of the allied victory and the lingering aspects of fascism in U.S. society that manifest…

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47 minutes

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