World War II Films Library

THE U.S. / JAPANESE CONFLICT
9 - UNCENSORED - ORIGINAL FILMS
TOTAL RUN TIME: 140 MINUTES

Film #1 - Bombing of Pearl Harbor

Attack on Pearl Harbor; the S.S. Normandie fire at a New York pier.
Early review of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Rare, news reel footage of burning and sinking ships, airplanes and some interesting facts about how much damage was actually inflicted by Japanese Submarines. There's additional footage of the S.S. Normandy, a luxury liner commissioned by the US War Department to be converted into a war vessel. Fire breaks out and she slowly keels over despite efforts to save her. Amazing footage - strongly recommended!

Content Advisory: Wartime News/Propaganda.

Created: 1942
Producer: Castle Films - News Reel
Format: NTSC DVD, Windows PC
Run Time: 10 Minutes

Film #2 - Japanese Relocation

A film defending the internment of Japanese American citizens during World War II.
An historical film that "gleefully" describes the "transfer" of Japanese residents from the Pacific Coastline to camps setup within the U.S. Interior. Over 100,000 Japanese people were uprooted with 2/3 of them being American citizens. Alludes to the auctioning off of personal property belonging to the displaced Japanese, saying that it "often involved financial sacrifice for the evacuees". Highly controversial and deeply debated. Were there actually Concentration Camps on American soil during World War II?

Content Advisory: U.S. Propaganda / Explicit Racism and Exploitation.

Created: 1943
Producer: U.S. Office of War Information, U.S. War Relocation Authority
Format: NTSC DVD, Windows PC
Run Time: 10 Minutes

Film #3 - What Makes a Battle

Strategy and successes of the Marshall Islands battle in World War II
Shows the battle over the Marshall Islands as a piece of U.S. master intelligence, strategy and Japanese persistence. Explains how air, sea and land forces continuously bombarded Japanese strong holds until the enemy was defeated and the islands were finally captured. Out of 10,000 Japanese soldiers only 264 surrendered. Uses excellent animation to explain U.S. strategy.

Content Advisory: Explicit Wartime Violence.

Created: 1944
Producer: U.S. War Department, Army Pictorial Service
Format: NTSC DVD, Windows PC
Run Time: 16 Minutes

Film #4 - Our Enemy: The Japanese

U.S. Propaganda film used to bolster hatred for the Japanese within the troops.
Film which attempts to convey an understanding of Japanese life and philosophy so that the U.S. may more readily defeat its enemy. Portrays the Japanese as "primitive, murderous and fanatical." Has interesting footage of Japan during the 1930s and 1940s.

Highly negative narration by Joseph C. Grew, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, who says "you cannot measure the Japanese sense of logic by any Western yardstick - Their weapons are modern; their thinking 2000 years out of date."

Content Advisory: Explicit Racism / Wartime Propaganda.

Created: 1943
Producer: U.S. Office of War Information, Bureau of Motion Pictures
Format: NTSC DVD, Windows PC
Run Time: 20 Minutes

Film #5 - Challenge to Democracy

Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War II.
Government-produced film attempting to defend the massive confinement of Japanese Americans in "concentration camps" during World War II. The narrator attempts to redefine the terms “relocation” and “evacuation,” in order to justify the forced imprisonment of American citizens based entirely on race. A very rare and controversial propaganda film indeed.

Content Advisory: U.S. Propaganda / Explicit Racism and Exploitation.

Created: 1944
Producer: U.S. War Relocation Authority
Format: NTSC DVD, Windows PC
Run Time: 17 Minutes

Film #6 - My Japan

Anti-Japanese propaganda film produced to spur the sale of U.S. war bonds.
Disturbing film showing actual footage of explicit wartime violence including dead bodies, decapitated heads and men being executed onscreen. A complex portrayal of Japanese people being vicious, single minded and unemotional. Using "captured Japanese footage" we are told that that the Japanese people are brutally "realistic," and willing to sacrifice everything to win the war" - So, You Better Buy U.S. War Bonds!!

Content Advisory: Explicit Racism and Extreme Violence.

Created:1945
Producer:U.S. Treasury Department
Format: NTSC DVD, Windows PC
Run Time: 16 Minutes

Film #7 - Special Delivery

U.S. Army: Bikini Island atomic bomb tests.
This film starts out by describing many of the different types of military jets and bombers that make up the power of the U.S. Air Force eventually leading up to the B-29 and the historic event of dropping an atom bomb on Bikini Atoll in Operation Crossroads. Shows the massive destruction caused within a 5 mile area of ground zero where 73 ships and other "props" were setup within this zone.

Content Advisory: None

Created:1946
Producer:U.S. Army Air Forces
Format: NTSC DVD, Windows PC
Run Time: 12 Minutes

Film #8 - Operation Crossroads

U.S. Navy: Bikini Island atomic bomb tests.
Documents the Able Day and Baker Day blasts of the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Island in the Pacific. This film starts out with a conventional look at military aircraft, other than fighter jets and bombers, and eventually shows the aftermath effects of an atomic bomb test drop from "Dave's Dream" - the same B-29 that dropped the bomb that obliterated Nagasaki.

Content Advisory: None

Created:1946
Producer:U.S. Navy, Commander Joint Task Force One
Format: NTSC DVD, Windows PC
Run Time: 27 Minutes

Film #9 - A Tale of Two Cities

How the atomic bomb destroyed the people and cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Documents the Able Day and Baker Day blasts of the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Island in the Pacific. This film starts out with a conventional look at military aircraft, other than fighter jets and bombers, and eventually shows the aftermath effects of an atomic bomb test drop from "Dave's Dream" - the same B-29 that dropped the bomb that obliterated Nagasaki.

Content Advisory: Wartime Destruction and Violence.

Created:1946
Producer:U.S. War Department
Format: NTSC DVD, Windows PC
Run Time: 12 Minutes

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