During World War II and immediately after it, in addition to the many private films created to help the war effort, many Allied countries had governmental or semi-governmental agencies commission propaganda and training films for home and foreign consumption. Animated films are not included here.
| Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| The Call for Arms | Brian Desmond Hurst | |
| Civilian Front | Mary Field | |
| London Can Take It! | Humphrey Jennings and Harry Watt | |
| Men of the Lightship | David MacDonald | |
| Miss Grant Goes to the Door | Brian Desmond Hurst | |
| Musical Poster Number One | Len Lye | |
| Neighbours Under Fire | Ralph Bond |
| Title | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| An Airman's Letter to His Mother | Michael Powell | ||
| ATS | A film about the Auxiliary Territorial Service, a women's formation | ||
| The Battle of London | Jack Kemp | ||
| Christmas Under Fire | Charles Hasse and Harry Watt | Nominated for Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject | |
| Ferry Pilot | Pat Jackson | ||
| Fighting Fields | Stanley Russell | ||
| Food for Freedom | |||
| Green Girdle | Ralph Keene | ||
| The Heart of Britain | Humphrey Jennings | ||
| How to Dig | |||
| How to File | |||
| Merchant Seamen | |||
| Plastic Surgery in Wartime | |||
| Queen's Messengers | |||
| Shunter Black's Night Off | Max Munden | produced by Verity Films | |
| Target for Tonight | |||
| Words for Battle | Humphrey Jennings |
| Title | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| After Mein Kampf | |||
| Alice in Switzerland | |||
| Battle Is Our Business | |||
| Border Weave | |||
| Coastal Command | J. B. Holmes | ||
| Dover | |||
| Greek Testament | |||
| Listen to Britain | Humphrey Jennings | Nominated for Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject | |
| In Which We Serve | Noel Coward and David Lean | ||
| Making a Compost Heap | |||
| Malta G.C. | |||
| Men of Tomorrow | |||
| Message from Canterbury | |||
| The Next of Kin (aka Next of Kin) | Thorold Dickinson | Originally a British War Office services training film by Ealing Studios based on the wartime security axiom that "Loose lips sink ships" / "Careless talk cost lives", it was also distributed commercially as its propaganda was of general strategic importance thus applicable to all citizens. | |
| Night Shift | |||
| One of Our Aircraft is Missing | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | ||
| Trinity House | |||
| Twenty-One Miles | Nominated for Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject | ||
| Went the Day Well? | Alberto Cavalcanti | ||
| We Serve | Carol Reed | ||
| Winning Your Wings | John Huston and Owen Crump (uncredited) | Nominated for Academy Award for Best Documentary |
| Title | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Before the Raid | Jiří Weiss | ||
| Butterfly Bombs | Louise Birt | ||
| Cameramen at War | |||
| Close Quarters | Jack Lee | ||
| Desert Victory | Nominated for Academy Award for Documentary Feature | ||
| Development of the English Town | Mary Field | ||
| Fires Were Started | Humphrey Jennings | ||
| Glorious Colours | Alfred Travers | ||
| It's Just the Way It Is | Leslie Fenton | ||
| Lift Your Heads | Michael Hankinson | ||
| The People's Land | Ralph Keene | ||
| Scottish Mazurka | |||
| The Silent Village | Humphrey Jennings | The Nazi massacre at Lidice recreated in a Welsh village | |
| Target for Today | William Keighley | ||
| Waterlight | Alberto Cavalcanti | ||
| The Volunteer | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
| Title | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aventure malgache | Alfred Hitchcock | ||
| Children of the City | |||
| Clean Milk | |||
| Henry V | |||
| Debris Clearance | |||
| The Great Circle | |||
| Jungle Patrol | |||
| Liberation of Rome | |||
| Men of Rochdale | |||
| New Builders | |||
| North East Corner | |||
| Out of Chaos | |||
| Road to Russia | |||
| Sailors Do Care | |||
| Soil Erosion | |||
| Towards the Offensive | |||
| Tunisian Victory | Frank Capra | Co-production with US | |
| V. 1 | |||
| Western Approaches | |||
| Willing Hands |
| Title | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burma Victory | Roy Boulting | ||
| A Diary for Timothy | Humphrey Jennings | ||
| Farm Work | |||
| Homes for the People | |||
| Song of the People | |||
| Steam | |||
| The Ten Year Plan | |||
| This Was Japan | |||
| The True Glory | Carol Reed | Shows the final invasion and victory in Europe; won Academy Award for Documentary Feature |
In Australia the Australian News and Information Bureau, under the Department of Information, produced the following
| Year | Title | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | Advance to Libya | Frank Hurley | ||
| 1942 | Kokoda Front Line! | Ken G. Hall | Won Academy Award for Documentary Feature | |
| 1942 | Men of Timor | Damien Parer | ||
| 1942 | Moresby Under the Blitz | Ken G. Hall | ||
| 1942 | Soldiers Without Uniform | Charles Chauvel | ||
| 1943 | Assault on Salamaua | |||
| 1943 | The Bismarck Convoy Smashed | |||
| 1945 | Mid East | Frank Hurley |
In Canada, the National Film Board of Canada either distributed or produced the following as part of its Canada Carries On and The World in Action series.
| Title | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Out for War | |||
| Atlantic Patrol | Stuart Legg | ||
| Children from Overseas | Stanley Hawes | ||
| Controls for Victory | Philip Ragan | ||
| Front of Steel | John McDougall | Narrated by Lorne Greene Watch online | |
| Home Front | Stanley Hawes | Watch online | |
| Letter from Aldershot | Stanley Hawes | ||
| Letter from Camp Borden | Raymond Spottiswoode | ||
| Not Peace but a Sword | Ross McLean | Re-edited version of Lights Out in Europe | |
| On Guard for Thee | Stanley Hawes | ||
| Squadron 992 | Frank Badgley | ||
| Timber Front | Frank Badgley | ||
| Wings of Youth | Raymond Spottiswoode | Narrated by Lorne Greene |
| Title | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACK ACK | Peter Baylis | French title: Défense contre avions | |
| Battle of Brains | Stanley Hawes | ||
| Call for Volunteers | Radford Crawley | ||
| Churchill's Island | Stuart Legg | Won Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject. First NFB Oscar winner. | |
| Fight for Liberty | |||
| Food, Weapon of Conquest | Stuart Legg | ||
| Guards of the North | Raymond Spottiswoode | ||
| Heroes of the Atlantic | J.D. Davidson | Watch online | |
| Iceland on the Prairies | Radford Crawley | ||
| The People's War | |||
| Soldiers All | Stuart Legg | ||
| Strategy of Metals | Raymond Spottiswoode | ||
| Strategy of Metals | Graham McInnes | Combination of A Call for Volunteers (above) and Ottawa, Wartime Capital | |
| Tools of War | |||
| Warclouds in the Pacific | Stuart Legg | Nominated for Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject | |
| Who Sheds His Blood | Judith Crawley | ||
| Wings of a Continent | Raymond Spottiswoode |
| Title | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Battle for Oil | Stuart Legg | ||
| Battle of the Harvests | Stanley Jackson | ||
| Blitzkrieg Tactics | Contains footage of Nazi film Feuertaufe | ||
| Everywhere in the World | Stuart Legg | Stresses Commonwealth and American solidarity | |
| The Face of Time | Graham McInnes | Centenary of the Geological Survey of Canada. Contains war related information. | |
| Ferry Pilot | Stuart Legg | ||
| Field Training in Winter | Stanley Hawes | ||
| Fighting Ships | Graham McInnes | ||
| Forward Commandos | Raymond Spottiswoode | ||
| Freighters Under Fire | |||
| Geopolitik - Hitler's Plan for Empire | Stuart Legg | ||
| Great Guns | Graham McInnes | ||
| If | Philip Ragan | ||
| Inside Fighting Canada | Jane Marsh | Watch online | |
| Inside Fighting China | Nominated for Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject | ||
| Inside Fighting Russia | |||
| Voice of Action | James Beveridge | Watch online |
| Title | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100,000 Cadets | Nicholas Read | ||
| 13 Platoon | Julian Roffman | ||
| Action Stations | Joris Ivens | ||
| A.R.P. in Schools | Training children about what to do in an air raid | ||
| Banshees Over Canada[1] | James Beveridge | ||
| Battle Is Our Business | Julian Roffman | ||
| Battle Is Their Birthright | Stuart Legg | ||
| Bombing the Nazis | |||
| Buying Fever | Philip Ragan | ||
| Canada - Workshop of Victory | |||
| Canada's Youth Training Plan | |||
| Coal Face, Canada | Robert Edmonds | ||
| Corvette Port Arthur | Joris Ivens | ||
| Coupon Value | |||
| Curtailment of Civilian Industries | Philip Ragan | ||
| Farm Front | |||
| Farmers Forum | |||
| First Aid in A.R.P. | |||
| Fighting Dutch | Raymond Spottiswoode | Co-produced with Netherlands Information Bureau | |
| Fighting Norway | Sydney Newman | ||
| The Gates of Italy | Stuart Legg and Tom Daly | Watch online | |
| Getting out the Coal | |||
| Handle with Care | George L. George | ||
| He Plants for Victory | Philip Ragan | Concerns Victory gardens | |
| Industrial Workers | |||
| Proudly She Marches | Jane Marsh | Watch online | |
| The War for Men's Minds | Stuart Legg | Watch online |
| Title | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| According to Need | Dallas Jones | ||
| Air Cadets | Jane Marsh | ||
| Alaska Military Highway | Julian Roffman | ||
| Back to Normal | George Dunning | Concerns life of war amputees | |
| Balkan Powder Keg | Stuart Legg | ||
| Battle of Europe | Stuart Legg, Tom Daly | ||
| The Bayonet | |||
| Break-through | James Beveridge | Watch online | |
| Canadian Army Sing-Song No. 1 | Don Baker, B.K. Blake | ||
| Canadian Blood Saves Lives on All Fronts | |||
| Keep Your Mouth Shut | Norman McLaren | Narrated by Lorne Greene (unconfirmed) | |
| Fortress Japan | Stuart Legg | ||
| Infantry - Pride of the Army | Dan Wallace | ||
| Road to the Reich | Tom Daly | ||
| Ernest Borneman | |||
| Train Busters | |||
| Trans-Canada Express | Stanley Hawes | Watch online | |
| Zero Hour | Stuart Legg |
| Title | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Bull's Own Island | Stuart Legg | ||
| Headline Hunters |
| Year | Title | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | He's in the Navy | George Radcliffe-Genge | ||
| 1940 | The Planes of Hindusthan | George Radcliffe-Genge | ||
| 1941 | V for Victory | Bibhuti Mitra | ||
| 1941 | Voice of Satan | Ezra Mir | ||
| 1941 | Road to Victory | Ezra Mir | ||
| 1941 | In Self-Defence | Pittamandalam Venktatachalapathy Pathy | ||
| 1942 | The Golden Grain of Bharatkhand | Pittamandalam Venktatachalapathy Pathy | ||
| 1943 | Home Front | Pittamandalam Venktatachalapathy Pathy |
The United States had the largest film industry of any of the Allied powers, and its use for propaganda purposes is legendary. Because it was so big, there was no single governmental or semi-governmental agency that centrally controlled it. Instead, the Office of War Information co-ordinated efforts among many entities to produce propaganda:
OCIAA: Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
OEM: Office for Emergency Management
OSS: Office of Strategic Services
USAAF: United States Army Air Forces
USASC: U.S. Army Signal Corps
USASSD: U.S. Army Special Service Division
USDA: United States Department of Agriculture
USDT: United States Department of Treasury
USN: United States Navy
USDW: United States Department of War
WACMPI: War Activities Committee of the Motion Pictures Industry
Several of these films, although they have propaganda value, were used as training films for the United States armed forces.
Pre-December films given IMDb release date where available.
| Title | Director | Agencies or Organizations involved | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aluminum | WACMPI | |||
| America Builds Ships | WACMPI; OPM | Released June 5 | ||
| America Preferred | WACMPI; USDT | Released 20 May | ||
| Army in Overalls | WACMPI; OPM | Released June 5 | ||
| Bits and Pieces | WACMPI; OPM | Released June 5 | ||
| Defense Review No. 1 | WACMPI | |||
| Defense Review No. 2 | WACMPI | |||
| Men and Ships | WACMPI; BPI | Released June 23 | ||
| Pots to Planes | WACMPI; OEM | Released November 22 | ||
| Power for Defense | WACMPI; NDC | Released February 18 | ||
| Preflight Inspection of the B-17E | USASC; UASAAF | War Department Training Film 1-532 | ||
| Red Cross Trailer | WACMPI; | |||
| Where Do We Go? | WACMPI; USO | Released May 28 | ||
| Women in Defense | WACMPI; OEM | Released May 28; narrated by Katharine Hepburn; written by Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Title | Director | Agencies or Organizations involved | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa, Prelude to Victory | OWI | |||
| The Arm Behind the Army | USASC | |||
| Ring of Steel | OEM | Recruiting short, narrated by Spencer Tracy, released April 7 | ||
| The Battle of Midway | John Ford | USN, WACMPI | Academy Award for Documentary Feature 1942* | |
| Campus on the March | OWI | |||
| Colleges at War | ||||
| Defense Review No. 3 | ||||
| Fighting the Fire Bomb | ||||
| Fuel Conservation | ||||
| Hemp for Victory | Raymond Evans | USDA | ||
| Henry Browne, Farmer | USDA | Nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject | ||
| Hitler--Dead or Alive | Nick Grinde | |||
| Homes for Defense | ||||
| How to Fly the B-24D Airplane | ||||
| Introduction to the P-39 | ||||
| It's Everybody's War | OWI | Nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject | ||
| Japanese Relocation | WACMPI; OWI | Japanese American internment | ||
| Keep 'Em Rolling | ||||
| Keeping Fit | ||||
| Lake Carrier | ||||
| Manpower | OWI | |||
| Mister Gardenia Jones | OWI | Nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject | ||
| Morgenthau Trailer | ||||
| Night Shift | Starring Danny Kaye | |||
| Why We Fight | Frank Capra | USASSD; USASC | Academy Award for Documentary Feature 1942* | |
| Safeguarding Military Information | Preston Sturges | AMPAS | ||
| Salvage | ||||
| Sex Hygiene | John Ford | USASC | ||
| Tanks | ||||
| Training Women For War Production | NYA | Narrated by Eleanor Roosevelt[2] | ||
| Torpedo Squadron | John Ford | USN | ||
| U.S. Coast Guard | ||||
| United China Relief | ||||
| Vigilance | ||||
| Winning Your Wings | John Huston Owen Crump (uncredited) | USAAF | Starring James Stewart; Nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject | |
| The World at War | Lowell Mellett | OWI | ||
| Wood for War | Arthur H. Wolf | USDT | ||
| Your Air Raid Warden | ||||
| Your American Tragedy |
| Title | Director | Agencies or Organizations involved | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Challenge to Democracy | OWI; OSS; WRA | Concerns Japanese American internment | ||
| GI Bill of Rights | Army-Navy Screen Magazine | |||
| Air Support | USN | |||
| At the Front | OWI; WACMPI | |||
| American Saboteur | USDA; USFS; WACMPI | |||
| The Autobiography of a 'Jeep' | Joseph Krumgold (uncredited) | OWI | ||
| Brazil at War | OWI; OIAA | |||
| British Torpedo Plane Tactics | USN; Walt Disney Pictures | |||
| Basic Electricity, As Applied to Electronic Control Systems | USN; Walt Disney Pictures | |||
| Black Marketing | William Castle | OWI; WACMPI | ||
| Brothers in Blood | WACMPI | |||
| Chief Neeley Reports to the Nation | WACMPI; USN | Concerns women's auxiliary, WAVES | ||
| Combat America | USAF | Narrated by Clark Gable | ||
| Community Transportation | OWI; WACMPI | |||
| Customs of the Service | USASC | |||
| Day of Battle | OWI; WACMPI | |||
| December 7th | John Ford, Gregg Toland | USN; USDW | Won an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject | |
| Destination Island X | USN; WACMPI | |||
| USAF | ||||
| Dive Bombing | USAF | |||
| Doctors at War | OWI; WACMPI | |||
| Education for Death- The Making Of The Nazi | Clyde Geronimi | Based on the non-fiction book of the same name by American author Gregor Ziemer. This film is by The Walt Disney Company, and the characters speak German | ||
| Family Feud | WACMPI | |||
| Farmer at War | OWI; WACMPI | |||
| The First Motion Picture Unit | USAAF | |||
| Flying the P-39 | USAAF | |||
| Food and Magic | OWI; WACMPI | |||
| Food for Fighters | OWI; WACMPI | |||
| German Industrial Manpower | OSS | |||
| Handling Aviation Gasoline in the Field | USAAF | |||
| His New World | OWI; | Narrated by Spencer Tracy | ||
| How to Fly the B-17 | USAAF | |||
| How to Fly the P-47 | USAAF | |||
| How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines | OSS | |||
| How to Shoot a Rifle | USAAF | |||
| Kill or Be Killed | USA | |||
| Materials Handling in AAF Depots | USAAF | |||
| Message from Malta | OWI; WACMPI | |||
| Mission Accomplished | OWI; WACMPI | |||
| Negro Colleges in War Time | WACMPI; OWI | |||
| No Exceptions | WACMPI; OWI | |||
| Oil Fires, Their Prevention and Extinguishment | USAAF | |||
| Oil Is Blood | WACMPI; OWI | |||
| Operation of C-1 Autopilot | USAAF | |||
| Our Enemy- The Japanese | USN; OWI | |||
| P-38 Flight Characteristics | S.C. Burden | USAAF | ||
| Paratroops | WACMPI; OWI | |||
| Recognition of the Japanese Zero Fighter | Bernard Vorhaus | First Motion Picture Unit, United States Army Air Forces; OWI | Starring Ronald Reagan | |
| Reconnaissance Pilot | USAAF | |||
| Report from the Aleutians | John Huston | WACMPI; USASC | Nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature | |
| Right of Way | WACMPI; OWI | |||
| USAAF | ||||
| USAAF | ||||
| The Sikorsky Helicopter | USAAF | |||
| Since Pearl Harbor | WACMPI; American Red Cross | Wartime activities of the Red Cross | ||
| Suckerbait | USA | Caution against Nazi spies | ||
| Suggestion Box | WACMPI; OWI | |||
| Tank Convoy | ||||
| Three Cities | OWI | |||
| To the People of the United States | Arthur Lubin | PHS | Nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject | |
| Tomorrow We Fly | USN | Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) | ||
| The Tree in a Test Tube | Charles McDonald | USDA | Laurel and Hardy short about use of wood in the war effort | |
| Troop Train | WACMPI; OWI | |||
| USAAF | ||||
| USAAF | ||||
| Uncrating and Assembly of the P-47 Thunderbolt Airplane | USAAF | |||
| War Department Report | Carl Marzani | OSS | Nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature | |
| War Town | WACMPI; OWI | |||
| Wartime Nutrition | WACMPI; OWI | |||
| We've Never Been Licked | John Rawlins | Texas A&M University | Features William Frawley of I Love Lucy as a Japanese agent | |
| When Work Is Done | OWI | |||
| Why We Fight | Frank Capra | USASSD; USASC | ||
| Why We Fight | Frank Capra | USASSD; USASC | ||
| Why We Fight | Frank Capra | USASSD; USASC | ||
| Why We Fight | Frank Capra | USASSD; USASC | Nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature | |
| Wings Up | OWI; WACMPI; First Motion Picture Unit, United States Army Air Forces | Narrated by Clark Gable | ||
| You, John Jones! | Mervyn LeRoy | WACMPI; | Dramatic short starring James Cagney |
| Title | Director | Agencies or Organizations involved | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The 957th Day | USN; OWI | |||
| America's Hidden Weapon | WACMPI; OWI | |||
| The Articles of War | USASC | |||
| At His Side | WACMPI; ARC | Activities of the Red Cross for that year | ||
| Attack in the Pacific | ||||
| Attack! Battle of New Britain | Robert Presnell Sr. | |||
| USAAF | ||||
| B-29 Flight Procedure and Combat Crew Functioning | USAAF | |||
| The Battle for the Marianas | USDW; WACMPI | |||
| Battle Stations | USCG; WACMPI | Concerns women's Coast guard auxiliary, SPARS | ||
| Fighting Americans | Max Dresner | Toddy Pictures Co. | Race film made in co-operation with the US Govt. | |
| The Fighting Lady | Edward Steichen | USN | Won an Academy Award for Documentary Feature | |
| Freedom Comes High | Lewis Allen | USN | Dramatic short | |
| Gracias Amigos | OIAA | Latin American contributions to the war effort | ||
| Highballing to Victory | APSC; WACMPI | |||
| How to Fly the B-25 | USN; WACMPI | |||
| How to Fly the B-26 Airplane | USN; WACMPI | |||
| Hymn of the Nations | Alexander Hammid | OWI | nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject | |
| It Can't Last | USN; | |||
| It's Murder | WACMPI | |||
| It's Your War Too | WACMPI; USDW; USASC | Concerns women's Army auxiliary WACS | ||
| Liberation of Rome | APS; OWI; WACMPI; British Service Units | |||
| Land and Live in the Jungle | USAAF | |||
| Memo for Joe | Richard Fleischer | WACMPI | ||
| William Wyler | First Motion Picture Unit, United States Army Air Forces | |||
| Motion Pictures on the Fighting Front | ||||
| Movies at War | USDW; WACMPI | |||
| The Negro Soldier | Stuart Heisler | USDW; WACMPI | ||
| No Alternative | WACMPI; OWI | |||
| One Inch from Victory | ||||
| The Price of Rendova | USA; WACMPI | |||
| Report from the Front | OWI | Narrated by Humphrey Bogart | ||
| Report to Judy | WACMPI; OWI | Concerns the women's naval auxiliary WAVES | ||
| Return to Guam | USN | |||
| Road to Victory | LeRoy Prinz | WACMPI | ||
| Supervising Women Workers | USOE | |||
| USN; WACMPI | ||||
| Tunisian Victory | Frank Capra and Hugh Stewart | USASC; British Service Units | ||
| The War Speeds Up | ||||
| What Makes a Battle | USAPS (with co-operation of USASC, USN, USMC etc.) | |||
| Why of Wartime Taxes | WACMPI; OWI | |||
| Why We Fight | Frank Capra | USASSD; USASC | Second Sino-Japanese War | |
| With the Marines at Tarawa | Louis Hayward | WACMPI; OWI | Authentic footage of the Battle of Tarawa, filmed by the photographers of the 2nd Marine Division; won an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject |
| Title | Director | Agencies or Organizations involved | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6th Marine Division on Okinawa | USMC | Battle of Okinawa | ||
| Airborne Lifeboat | USAAF | |||
| Air Force Report[3] | Carl Marzani | OSS | ||
| Airborne Lifeboat | USAAF | |||
| The All-Star Bond Rally | Michael Audley | USDT; WACMPI; | ||
| The Army Nurse | APS;USASC;USDW | |||
| The Atom Strikes! | APS;USASC;USDW | Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | ||
| The Battle of San Pietro | John Huston | WACMPI; APS | Battle of San Pietro Infine | |
| Birth of the B-29 | APS;AAF;USDW | |||
| Brought to Action | USN;WACMPI | |||
| Bulletin on the Okinawa Operation | USMC | Battle of Okinawa | ||
| Carriers Hit Tokyo! | Ed Herlihy | Universal Studios | 5 min. 19 s, archive.org | |
| Operation Overlord | ||||
| D-Day -1 | Operation Overlord | |||
| Death Mills | Billy Wilder | USASC | Holocaust | |
| The Enemy Strikes | WACMPI; APS | Battle of the Bulge | ||
| The Fight for the Sky | WACMPI;USAAF | Air war over Europe; Narrated by Ronald Reagan | ||
| The Fleet That Came to Stay | Budd Boetticher | WACMPI; OWI | Battle of Okinawa | |
| Fury in the Pacific | WACMPI; USA; USN; USMC | |||
| Glamour Gal | USMC | Artillery in the Battle of Iwo Jima | ||
| Here is Germany | Frank Capra | Occupation orientation | ||
| Hollywood Victory Caravan | William D. Russell | WACMPI; USDT | Hollywood USO | |
| Intelligence and the Japanese Civilian | USMC | Occupation orientation | ||
| The Last Bomb | Frank Lloyd | USAAF | Operation Matterhorn
| |
| Frank Capra and Joris Ivens | ||||
| Mr. and Mrs. America | USDT | Bond drive | ||
| My Japan | USDT | |||
| The Negro Sailor | Henry Levin | USN | ||
| Okinawa Bulletin #2: Final Phases | USMC | Battle of Okinawa | ||
| On to Tokyo | WACMPI; APS | |||
| Our Job in Japan | WACMPI; APS | |||
| Pearl Harbor Payback | Air Force dogfights and B-29 raids on Japan | |||
| Remember These Faces | USN; USCG; USMC | Wounded in Action marines and sailors in the Pacific | ||
| Seeing Them Through | WACMPI; American Red Cross | Activities of the Red Cross the previous year | ||
| The Ship That Wouldn't Die | ||||
| Story with Two Endings | Lee Strasberg | |||
| The Stilwell Road | USASC; British and Indian film units | Narrated by Ronald Reagan | ||
| The Story of the 14th Air Force | Photographers of the 14th Air Force | The Flying Tigers | ||
| Target Tokyo | USAAF | |||
| Target Invisible | DOT | The use of Radar in the War | ||
| Time to Kill | USAAF; USN | |||
| To the Shores of Iwo Jima | OWI; WACMPI | Nominated for Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject | ||
| The Town | Josef von Sternberg | OWI; WACMPI | ||
| Tuesday in November | John Houseman | OWI; WACMPI | ||
| The True Glory | Garson Kanin and Carol Reed | OWI; British Ministry of Information | Won Academy Award for Documentary Feature | |
| Two Down and One to Go | Frank Capra | WACMPI; USAPS | ||
| The Two-Way Street | WACMPI | About the Lend-Lease program | ||
| Watchtower Over Tomorrow | John Cromwell | OWI; WACMPI | Concerns Dumbarton Oaks and the founding of the UN | |
| Why We Fight | Frank Capra | USASSD; USASC | ||
| Wings for This Man | USAAF | About the Tuskegee Airmen. Narrated by Ronald Reagan | ||
| Your Job In Germany | Frank Capra | USAAF | Written by Dr. Seuss. Concerns occupation of Germany |
| Title | Director | Agencies or Organizations involved | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Tale of Two Cities | USDW; Army-Navy Screen Magazine | Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | ||
| That Justice Be Done | OWI; OSS; WACMPI | Nuremberg Trials | ||
| Seeds of Destiny | Gene Fowler Jr. | USDW; UNRRA | Asks public for humanitarian aid to post-war Europe and Asia | |
| Special Delivery | USDW; Army-Navy Screen Magazine | Operation Crossroads (the atomic tests bombings on Bikini Atoll) |
| Title | Director | Agencies or Organizations involved | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Don't Be a Sucker | USDW | Anti-intolerance film | ||
| Thunderbolt! | William Wyler | USDW | About US airstrikes in Italy; introduced by Jimmy Stewart |
| Title | Director | Agencies or Organizations involved | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OWI; USASC | ||||
| Victory Gardens | USDA |
The low countries were overrun by Nazi Germany in the May–June 1940 blitzkrieg. The Dutch East Indies, the Netherlands most important colony, was conquered by Japan in early 1942. However each had a government in exile which set up the Belgian Ministry of Information and Netherlands Information Bureau, which produced the following films. There were also films made by the resistance while the respective countries were occupied.
| Year | Title | Director | Agency | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | Belgique toujours | Hippolyte De Kempeneer | Belgian resistance movement | Dutch title: Immer België; English title Forever Belgium |
| 1942 | Little Belgium | Belgian Ministry of Information | Nominated for Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject | |
| 1942 | People of the Indies | Netherlands Information Bureau | ||
| 1942 | Holland in the Western Hemisphere | Netherlands Information Bureau | ||
| 1942 | High Stakes in the East | Netherlands Information Bureau | ||
| 1942 | The Dutch Next Door | Netherlands Information Bureau | ||
| 1943 | Glorious Colours | Alfred Travers | Netherlands Information Bureau |
In the Soviet Union, unless otherwise noted, the Central Newsreel Studio produced these films.
| Year | Title | Director | Original title | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | For the Front | Gurgen Balasanyan | Razmatchakati hamar | Produced by Armkinokhronika |
| 1941 | Fascist Boots Shall Not Trample Our Motherland | A.Ivanov & I.Vano | Не топтать фашистскому сапогу НАШЕЙ РОДИНЫ | Produced by Soyuzmultfilm |
| 1942 | Day of War | Mikhail Slutsky | День войны/Den voiny | |
| 1942 | Leningrad in Combat | Roman Karmen | Ленинград в борьбе/Leningrad v borbe | |
| 1942 | Crushing Defeat of the German Troops under Moscow | Ilya Kopalin | Разгром немецких войск под Москвой | |
| 1943 | Ukraine in Flames | Aleksandr Dovzhenko & Yuliya Solntseva | Битва за нашу Советскую Украину | |
| 1943 | The People's Avengers | Vasili Belayev | Народные мстители/Narodniye mstiteli | |
| 1943 | Stalingrad | Leonid Varlamov | ||
| 1943 | Narrated by Brian Donlevy | |||
| 1943 | In the Sands of Central Asia | Aleksandr Zguridi | В песках Средней Азии/V peskakh Sredney Azii | |
| 1943 | Przysiegamy ziemi polskiej | Aleksander Ford | Title in Polish | |
| 1944 | Sons of Armenia | Gurgen Balasanyan | Hayastani zavaknere | Produced by Armkinokhronika |
| 1944 | K voprosu o peremirii s Finlyandiey | Yuli Raizman | Produced by Sojuzintorgkino Studios | |
| 1945 | Fall of Berlin – 1945 | Yuli Raizman & Yelizaveta Svilova | Битва за Берлин 1945 г. | |
| 1945 | Victory in the Ukraine and the Expulsion of the Germans from the Boundaries of the Ukrainian Soviet Earth | Aleksandr Dovzhenko & Yelizaveta Svilova | Pobeda na Pravoberezhnoi Ukraine i izgnaniye nemetsikh zakhvatchikov za predeli Ukrainskikh sovietskikh zemel | |
| 1945 | The Rout of Japan | Iosif Kheifits | Razgrom Yaponii |
In addition to the above, the Soviet cinema distributing company, Artkino, produced the following for foreign markets.
| Year | Title | Director | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | Our Russian Front | Joris Ivens & Lewis Milestone | Narrated by Walter Huston | |
| 1942 | Moscow Strikes Back | Ilya Kopalin & Leonid Varlamov | Narrated by Edward G. Robinson. One of four winners at the 15th Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature.[4] | |
| 1943 | Russians at War | |||
| 1947 | The Nuremberg Trials | C Svilov | Soviet view of the Nuremberg Trials |