World War II Volume Three The Battle of Russia/The Battle of China (DVD, 1998) Frank Capra's Award Winning Documentaries
The Battle of Russia (1943) is the fifth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight documentary series. The longest film of the series, it has two parts. It was made in collaboration with Ukrainian-born Anatole Litvak as primary director under Capra's supervision. Litvak gave the film its "shape and orientation," and the film had seven writers with voice narration by Walter Huston. The score was done by the Russian-born Hollywood composer Dimitri Tiomkin and drew heavily on Tchaikovsky along with traditional Russian folk songs and ballads.
The Battle of China (1944) was the sixth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series. Following its introductory credits, which are displayed to the Army Air Force Orchestra's cover version of "March of the Volunteers", the movie opens on footage of the Japanese invasion of China and then briefly introduces the history, geography, and people of China. It contrasts the peaceful development of the Republic of China under Sun Yat-sen with the militarized modernization of the Empire of Japan, whose invasions of China are explained with reference to the Tanaka Memorial, which has since been largely discredited.
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