Know Your Ally: Britain

Jan 1, 1944

0h 42m

★ 4.6

Overview

Know Your Ally: Britain was a 45-minute propaganda film made in 1944. It was narrated by Walter Huston and produced by the United States War Department and Signal Corp to solidify Anglo-American solidarity within the ranks as well as counter Nazi propaganda aimed at weakening the Alliance.

Genres

War

Documentary

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Cast

Narrator

Walter Huston

Self (archive footage)

Ernest Bevin

Self (archive footage)

Winston Churchill

Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

Herbert Morrison

Self (archive footage)

Louis Mountbatten

Self (archive footage)

Benito Mussolini

Self (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Narrator/Bob (helpful taxi passenger)

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