Know Your Ally: Britain (1944)

4.6/10 42 min War Documentary

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.

Cast

Walter Huston

Narrator

Winston Churchill

Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

Louis Mountbatten

Self (archive footage)

Benito Mussolini

Self (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self (archive footage)

Orson Welles

Narrator/Bob (helpful taxi passenger)

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