The Official World War II US Government account of Chinese defense against Japanese aggression.The Official World War II US Government account of Chinese defense against Japanese aggression.The Official World War II US Government account of Chinese defense against Japanese aggression.
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Claire Chennault
- Self
- (archive footage)
Kai-Shek Chiang
- Self
- (archive footage)
Madame Chiang
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (as Madame Chiang Kai-shek)
Winston Churchill
- Self
- (archive footage)
Anthony Eden
- Self
- (archive footage)
William F. Halsey
- Self (looks up from desk)
- (archive footage)
Walter Huston
- Abraham Lincoln
- (voice)
Douglas MacArthur
- Self
- (archive footage)
William Mayer
- Self
- (as Col. William Mayer)
Louis Mountbatten
- Self
- (archive footage)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (as Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
Joseph W. Stilwell
- Self
- (archive footage)
Yat-sen Sun
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (as Dr. Sun Yat Sen)
Gi-ichi Tanaka
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (as Baron Tanaka)
Anthony Veiller
- Narrator
- (voice)
- Directors
- Frank Capra(uncredited)
- Anatole Litvak(uncredited)
- Writers
- Confucius(uncredited)
- Julius J. Epstein
- Philip G. Epstein
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaIn the year 2000, the United States Library of Congress mandated that this film (and the other six documentaries in the Why We Fight series) were "culturally significant" and selected them for preservation in the National Film Registry.
- GoofsAlthough the film lionizes the Nationalist Army of Chiang Kai-Shek, a frequent leitmotif in the film's soundtrack is "The Song of the Volunteers", a Communist marching song that would become the national anthem of the People's Republic of China after Mao Zedong won the Chinese Civil War in 1949.
- Alternate versionsA patriotic Australian version includes a brief epilogue exhorting Australians to resist the Japanese.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Xie rou chang cheng (1995)
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WW2 Capra
Battle of China, The (1944)
*** (out of 4)
WW2 documentary from Frank Capra tells the history of China and their wars as well as how they got involved in WW2 and what they had to do to defend themselves. As with Capra's other WW2 docs, this one here contains some great battle footage, which is pretty remarkable to see. I also find it incredibly interesting at how Capra set these films up so that the viewer gets to know every little detail of how the war was fought. Sensitive viewers might want to stay clear because this is a pretty damn violent film that shows several people being executed by the Nazis and there's also some graphic footage of some babies that were executed.
*** (out of 4)
WW2 documentary from Frank Capra tells the history of China and their wars as well as how they got involved in WW2 and what they had to do to defend themselves. As with Capra's other WW2 docs, this one here contains some great battle footage, which is pretty remarkable to see. I also find it incredibly interesting at how Capra set these films up so that the viewer gets to know every little detail of how the war was fought. Sensitive viewers might want to stay clear because this is a pretty damn violent film that shows several people being executed by the Nazis and there's also some graphic footage of some babies that were executed.
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- Michael_Elliott
- Feb 26, 2008
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- Also known as
- The Battle of China: Assault on the Great Wall
- Production companies
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- Runtime1 hour 5 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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