Overview
Using newsreel footage, this film reviews world events from the end of World War I to the American entry into World War II and, according to the narration, shows "how, through their disunity, democracies were led, some to destruction and others to the verge of destruction."]
Details
- Writer
- Prosper BuranelliScreenplay
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- July 10, 1942
- Original language
- English
Cast
Lowell ThomasNarrator (voice)
Franklin D. RooseveltSelf
Neville ChamberlainSelf (archive footage)
Winston ChurchillSelf (archive footage)
Charles de GaulleSelf (archive footage)
Francisco FrancoSelf (archive footage)
Adolf HitlerSelf (archive footage)
David Lloyd GeorgeSelf (archive footage)
Benito MussoliniSelf (archive footage)
Emperor Haile Selassie I of EthiopiaSelf (archive footage)
Woodrow WilsonSelf (archive footage)
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