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The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I (1998), a standard military history. online free to borrow; Committee on Public Information. How the war came to America (1917) online 840pp detailing every sector of society; Cooper, John Milton. Woodrow Wilson: A Biography (2009) Cooper, John Milton. "The World War and ...
A Russian spy and an Austrian captain fall in love during WW1. R S 1933 US Ever in My Heart: Archie Mayo: Romance and espionage in WW1 D, R A, S 1934 US The Lost Patrol: John Ford: Remake of Lost Patrol: A, D N 1934 US Keep 'Em Rolling: Rodney: George Archainbaud: WW1 Doughboy disobeys orders to save the condemned cavalry horse that saved his ...
The remaining 95 films were feature length about American soldiers fighting the war. [11] Cover Page of Picturegoer. Most of the films in this period were about the enemy and had a propaganda basis. [26] Films were created to influence the audience to believe that the enemy was evil followed by films showing the bravery of the American forces. [27]
War Comes to America, covering subsequent events. [75] At President Roosevelt's urging, Why We Fight was also released to the theaters for the general public. [76] In Britain, Churchill ordered the entire sequence to be shown to the public. [75] Movies were also useful in that propaganda messages could be incorporated into entertainment films. [77]
The film highlighted the importance of the American farmer and alleviated fears about food supplies by giving detailed numbers on America's considerable agricultural production. The films created to support this effort included Food Will Win the War [14] and The Grain that Built a Hemisphere. [15]
The U.S. entered the war in April 1917, which achieved Wellington House's primary objective. The DOI increased its production of war films, but did not know what would play most effectively in the U.S., leading to nearly every British war film being sent to the States thereafter, including The Tanks in Action at the Battle of the Ancre and The Retreat of the Germans at the Battle of Arras ...
Hollywood goes to war: films and American society, 1939–1952 (Routledge, 2014) Smith, Gaddis. American Diplomacy During the Second World War, 1941-1945 (1965) online; Tindall, George Brown. The Emergence of the New South, 1913–1945 online (LSU Press, 1967) Ware, Susan. Holding Their Own: American Women in the 1930s online (Twayne, 1982 ...
These are depictions of diverse aspects of war in film and television, including but not limited to documentaries, TV mini-series, drama serials, and propaganda film.The list starts before World War I, followed by the Roaring Twenties, and then the Great Depression, which eventually saw the outbreak of World War II in 1939, which ended in 1945.