Hollywood's Second World War (2019)

ALL 09/03/2019 (de) Documentary, War, History, TV Movie 90 Min
  • Release
    09/03/2019
  • Production
    Global Screen, Radio Bremen, ARTE, Florianfilm
  • Rotten tomato
    80%
  • Original title
    Hollywoods Zweiter Weltkrieg
  • Original language
    de
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

For the USA, World War 2 was an all-out war - to mobilize the masses, the US government launched a huge propaganda campaign and cinema, the medium of the masses, was quite simply their most important weapon. Government authorities monitored the production of feature films and the military itself produced documentaries aimed at rallying the American people to support the troops. This film tells the story of four Hollywood directors of European origin, who returned to the "Old World" during the Second World War to make propaganda documentaries for the US Army at the front: William Wyler from Alsace, Frank Capra from Italy, Anatole Litvak from Ukraine and - in post-war Germany - Billy Wilder from Austria.

  1. Jascha Hannover

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Fritz Busse

    Editor



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Casts

  1. Volker Schlöndorff

    Self

  2. George Stevens Jr.

    Self

  3. Catherine Wyler

    Self

  4. Anatole Litvak

    Self (archive footage)

  5. William Wyler

    Self (archive footage)

  6. Frank Capra

    Self (archive footage)

  7. Billy Wilder

    Self (archive footage)

  8. George Stevens

    Self (archive footage)

  9. Charlie Chaplin

    Adenoid Hynkel (archive footage)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 9 , Crews : 18

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Hollywood's Second World War (2019) 90 Min

ALL 09/03/2019 (de)
Documentary, War, History, TV Movie
  • Release 09/03/2019
  • Production
    Global Screen, Radio Bremen, ARTE, Florianfilm
  • Original title Hollywoods Zweiter Weltkrieg
  • de
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

For the USA, World War 2 was an all-out war - to mobilize the masses, the US government launched a huge propaganda campaign and cinema, the medium of the masses, was quite simply their most important weapon. Government authorities monitored the production of feature films and the military itself produced documentaries aimed at rallying the American people to support the troops. This film tells the story of four Hollywood directors of European origin, who returned to the "Old World" during the Second World War to make propaganda documentaries for the US Army at the front: William Wyler from Alsace, Frank Capra from Italy, Anatole Litvak from Ukraine and - in post-war Germany - Billy Wilder from Austria.

  1. Jascha Hannover

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Fritz Busse

    Editor

  4. André Schäfer, Lorenza Castella

    Producer