War Comes to America
War Comes to America

War Comes to America

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1945
1h 10m
7.1(18 votes)
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The seventh and final film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight World War II propaganda film series. This entry attempts to describe the factors leading up to America's entry into the Second World War.

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