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War II: Total War

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A film record, suitable for schools, of the war years of 1939 to 1945, showing major developments from the rise of Nazism in Germany to the first atomic bomb at Hiroshima. It does not minimize the brutality of war, but shows how this "total war," unlike wars of the past that engaged only the men of the fighting front, involved in varying degree almost every individual of every nation.

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A film record, suitable for schools, of the war years of 1939 to 1945, showing major developments from the rise of Nazism in Germany to the first atomic bomb at Hiroshima. It does not minimize the brutality of war, but shows how this "total war," unlike wars of the past that engaged only the men of the fighting front, involved in varying degree almost every individual of every nation.

  • director
    William Canning
  • producer
    William Canning
  • commentary
    Stanley Jackson
  • narrator
    Stanley Jackson
  • editing
    Michael McKennirey
    Dennis Sawyer
    Michael Scott
  • sound editing
    Bernard Bordeleau
  • music
    Donald Douglas
  • sound
    Ron Alexander
    Roger Lamoureux
  • re-recording
    Ron Alexander
    Roger Lamoureux

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