The Battle of Britain

The Battle of Britain

:"For the 1969 film, see Battle of Britain (film). For the World War II battle, see Battle of Britain."Infobox Film
name = Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain


caption =
director = Frank Capra
Anthony Veiller
producer = Office of War Information
writer = Julius Epstein; Philip Epstein
narrator = Walter Huston
starring =
music =
cinematography = Robert Flaherty
editing = William Hornbeck
distributor = War Activities Committee of the Motion Pictures Industry
released = 1943
runtime = 54 min
country = flagicon|US U.S.A.
language = English
budget =
preceded_by = Divide and Conquer
followed_by = The Battle of Russia
website =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0182766

"The Battle of Britain" was the fourth of Frank Capra's Why We Fight series. It was released in 1943 and concentrated on the German bombardment of the United Kingdom in anticipation of Operation Sealion during the Second World War.

See also

*List of Allied propaganda films of World War II

References

External links

*
* [http://www.archive.org/details/BattleOfBritain "The Battle of Britain" download] on the Internet Archive


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