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Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
1943 1h 23m Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak

Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia

★ 7.1 IMDb
Documentary War & Military History
The fifth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.
Writers Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Anthony Veiller, Anatole Litvak
Cast Anthony Veiller, Ion Antonescu, Nikolai Cherkasov, Miklós Horthy
DP Robert J. Flaherty
Music Dimitri Tiomkin
Essays and Criticism
On Frank Capra
Frankly: The Unmasking of Frank Capra by Ian Scott, Cineaste A Master without a Masterpiece by Matthew Thrift, MUBI Notebook
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Awards & Festivals
Nominated Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
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