Know Your Ally: Britain
1944 · 42m · N/A
Documentary, War
Directed by
Robert Stevenson
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.
Director and cast
- Robert Stevenson Director
- Walter Huston as Narrator
- Ernest Bevin as Self (archive footage)
- Winston Churchill as Self (archive footage)
- Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage)
- Herbert Morrison as Self (archive footage)
- Louis Mountbatten as Self (archive footage)
- Benito Mussolini Cast
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Cast
- Orson Welles Cast
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