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Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer (1943)

Genre : Documentary, War

Runtime : 57M

Director : Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak

Synopsis

The third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conquest of Western Europe in 1940.

Actors

Knox Manning
Knox Manning
Narrator
Murray Alper
Murray Alper
Bit Role
General Bergeret
General Bergeret
Himself - in Railway Carriage with Huntziger (archive footage)
Monte Blue
Monte Blue
Bit Role
Karl Brandt
Karl Brandt
Himself (with jubilant Hitler, to his right) (archive footage)
Maurice Brierre
Maurice Brierre
Bit Role
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Himself - with de Gaulle and Giraud (archive footage)
Ann Codee
Ann Codee
Bit Role
Richard Walther Darré
Richard Walther Darré
Himself - Speech (archive footage)
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle
Himself - with Churchill and FDR (archive footage)

Crews

Frank Capra
Frank Capra
Director
Anatole Litvak
Anatole Litvak
Director
Roger Q. Denny
Roger Q. Denny
Writer
Julius J. Epstein
Julius J. Epstein
Writer
Philip G. Epstein
Philip G. Epstein
Writer
Gordon Hollingshead
Gordon Hollingshead
Producer
Frank Capra
Frank Capra
Producer
Doug Gould
Doug Gould
Editor
William Hornbeck
William Hornbeck
Editor
Arthur L. Todd
Arthur L. Todd
Director of Photography
William Lava
William Lava
Original Music Composer

Posters and backgrounds

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