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War, Conflict and Peace - World War II Archival Films (27)

Germany, Japan and Italy (9)

  • Behind the Swastika: Nazi Atrocities
    Behind the Swastika: Nazi Atrocities
    1945 5 min
    This short documentary reveals the atrocities that occurred in German concentration camps during World War II. With images of suffering humans and mass graves, this film depicts the events that transpired under Hitler's rule and the condition of the prisoners when they were liberated by the Allied Forces.

    This newsreel was produced by the NFB at the end of the Second World War and therefore does not convey the full scope of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust. It contains disturbing images. Viewer discretion is advised.
  • Fortress Japan
    Fortress Japan
    1944 16 min
    This short documentary examines the strength of the enemy forces in Japan towards the end of World War II. The mobilization of Japan's people and the consolidation of her fleets and armies along the front are weighed against the Allied Forces preparations for increasing attacks.
  • Geopolitik - Hitler's Plan for Empire
    Geopolitik - Hitler's Plan for Empire
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    Stuart Legg 1942 20 min
    Hitler planned to dominate the world. A major factor in his thinking was the geopolitical theory of Karl Haushofer. (Released under the title Hitler's Plan in the World in Action series.)
  • The Gates of Italy
    The Gates of Italy
    1943 21 min
    This short 1943 documentary from the World in Action series zooms in on Benito Mussolini, the politician and National Fascist Party leader who led Italy into World War II. Examining his confused dictatorship, the film reveals the political and military dilemma of the impoverished Italian people as Mussolini goes down to defeat and is finally ousted, on 25 July 1943.
  • Guilty Men
    Guilty Men
    Tom Daly 1945 11 min
    The chief war criminals, and the varied ways in which their careers came to an end.
  • Inside Fighting China
    Inside Fighting China
    1942 22 min
    This wartime newsreel from 1942 documents the efforts of China to deal with Japanese aggression.
  • The Mask of Nippon
    The Mask of Nippon
    Margaret Palmer 1942 21 min
    An anti-Japanese propaganda film produced during World War II.
  • Warclouds in the Pacific
    Warclouds in the Pacific
    Stuart Legg 1941 20 min
    This short film examines the Japan that emerged at the beginning of the 1900s and was firmly established as an industrialized nation by the outbreak of World War II. Facing the greatest threat in their history, the democracies of the Pacific took careful stock of this new Japan and its strength, and erected a vast system of defence across the world's greatest ocean.
  • The War Is Over
    The War Is Over
    1945 4 min
    This commemoration of V-J Day--the World War II victory of the Allied forces in Japan--shows various scenes of celebration, and suggests that the energies which Canada deployed in the war effort in mining, agriculture and industrial development will now be the keys to a brighter, peaceful future.

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