December 7th
Year: 1943
Studio: Navy Department, U.S. War Department
Director: Gregg Toland, John Ford
Cast: Walter Huston, Harry Davenport, Dana Andrews, Paul Hurst, George O'Brien, James Kevin McGuinness
Crew: Gregg Toland (Director), John Ford (Director), John Ford (Producer), Robert Parrish (Editor), Budd Schulberg (Writer), Alfred Newman (Original Music Composer)
Runtime: 32 minutes
Release: Mar 01, 1943
IMDb: 5.70/10 by 23 users
Popularity: 1
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0

This was solid. Recently I have taken an interest in both the propaganda films and wartime documentaries of World War II from both sides. I especially wanted to see this, since I love Ford's 'They Were Expendable' so much. Definitely worth the effort to find if you have a similar inclination for the material. I have always wondered if a truly 'objective', 'unbiased' documentary can be made. Simply the decisions a director makes in what to capture and what not to makes such a gesture impossible, doesn't it? I especially feel this is the case when it comes to nationalistic documents, such as this. I have NO idea what its competition was, but this deservedly won Ford an Oscar for Best Documentary: Short Subject--this was a fine work he was well to be proud of.