Army propaganda orientation film - Know Your Enemy - Japan (1945)

Know Your Enemy: Japan is an American propaganda film directed by Frank Capra, commissioned by the U.S. War Department. The original intention of the film was to prepare U.S. soldiers for war before deployment in the Pacific, though ultimately it never realized this purpose due to the war‘s abrupt end soon after the film‘s completion.The film‘s first public screening following its initial release in 1945, was in 1977 as part of a PBS special.

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Fair use act of 1976. Educational purposes.