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The Battle of Britain was the fourth of Frank Capra's Why We Fight series of seven propaganda films, which made the case for fighting and winning the Second World War. It was released in 1943 and concentrated on the German bombardment of the United Kingdom in anticipation of Operation Sea Lion, the planned Nazi invasion of Great Britain.
Original Release
10/10/1943
US Release
10/10/1943
Cast
Name | Character |
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Douglas Bader | Self (after downing Me-109 and Dornier) |
Arno Breker | Self - Views Eiffel Tower with Hitler and Speer |
Winston Churchill | Self - with Londoners, Donates Coin on Street |
Hermann Göring | Self - with Hitler at the Berghof |
Adolf Hitler | Self - Führer und Reichskanzler |
John B. Hughes | Narrator |
Walter Huston | Narrator |
Frieda Inescort | Narrator |
Alfred Jodl | Self - Views Map with Hitler |
Wilhelm Keitel | Self - in Railway Carriage with Göring |
Directors
Writers
Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, S.K. Lauren
Cast
Name | Character |
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Douglas Bader | Self (after downing Me-109 and Dornier) |
Arno Breker | Self - Views Eiffel Tower with Hitler and Speer |
Winston Churchill | Self - with Londoners, Donates Coin on Street |
Hermann Göring | Self - with Hitler at the Berghof |
Adolf Hitler | Self - Führer und Reichskanzler |
John B. Hughes | Narrator |
Walter Huston | Narrator |
Frieda Inescort | Narrator |
Alfred Jodl | Self - Views Map with Hitler |
Wilhelm Keitel | Self - in Railway Carriage with Göring |
King George VI | Self - Views Beach Laid with Barbed Wire |
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother | Self - Visits Bombed Londoners with the King |
Erich Raeder | Self - in Map Room with Hitler and Jodl |
Erwin Rommel | Self - in Railway Carriage with Göring and Keitel |
Albert Speer | Self - Views Eiffel Tower with Hitler and Breker |
Anthony Veiller | Narrator |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Frank Capra | Producer |