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Oscar® Nominee, Best Documentary (Short Subject), 1941

Warclouds in the Pacific

1941 20 min
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This short film examines the Japan that emerged at the beginning of the 1900s and was firmly established as an industrialized nation by the outbreak of World War II. Facing the greatest threat in their history, the democracies of the Pacific took careful stock of this new Japan and its strength, and erected a vast system of defence across the world's greatest ocean.

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This short film examines the Japan that emerged at the beginning of the 1900s and was firmly established as an industrialized nation by the outbreak of World War II. Facing the greatest threat in their history, the democracies of the Pacific took careful stock of this new Japan and its strength, and erected a vast system of defence across the world's greatest ocean.
War, Conflict and Peace - World War II Archival Films Foreign Countries All subjects
  • director
    Stuart Legg
  • producer
    Stuart Legg
  • editing
    Stuart Legg
  • narrator
    Lorne Greene

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