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

Pacific Front (4)

  • 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.
  • Inside Fighting China
    Inside Fighting China
    1942 22 min
    This wartime newsreel from 1942 documents the efforts of China to deal with Japanese aggression.
  • 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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