Why We Fight 7: War Comes to America

US 1943. PC: 834th Signal Service Photographic Detachment, Special Services Division, U.S. Army. No personal credit titles in the film. [In charge of production: Frank Capra, with a mighty staff of film professionals]. A fine Imperial War Museum print. 72'. Viewed at Orion, Helsinki, 9 Sept 2005. Montages on wars, on America. Walter Huston's voice summarizing the history of America, the ideals of freedom and equality. The memorable years written in lightning. In this brotherhood, America was born. The poem of Lazarus. As strangers to one another we came. Multi-ethnicity. A montage on the great years of building the US. Five times blood freely shed. Children, schools. The American way of life, of fast food and free press and highways. 1917: make the world safe for democracy. The Nazis: tomorrow the world. Gallup polls summarize the great change in US opinion. Dean Acheson. The course of WWII from the 1931 Manchurian campaign. A brilliant animation on the German-Japanese strategy against the US. The strategic importance of South America. Brazil, Equador, Argentina. Havana Conference. The horrific scenario of the progress of Japan and Germany, on the threshold of reigning over seventy percent of the world. Why we aid Russia and China. December 7th. Roosevelt's declaration of war. A great ending to a great series.