Divide and Conquer (1943)

User Rating:

7.2/10   

Writers:

Release Date:

12 November 1945 (Sweden)

Genre:

Documentary | War

Plot:

The World War II US Government account of the European theatre of the war from after the English and French entry to the fall of France.

Plot Keywords:

Propaganda | Refugee | Prisoner Of War | Narvik | Dunkirk

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

General Bergeret	...	Himself (in railway carriage with Huntziger) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dr. Karl Brandt	...	Himself (with jubilant Hitler, to his right) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Winston Churchill	...	Himself (with de Gaulle and Giraud) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Walter Darré	...	Himself (speech) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Charles de Gaulle	...	Himself (with Churchill and FDR) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Otto Dietrich	...	Himself (speech) (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Dillinger	...	Himself (gangster, alive and dead) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ferdinand Foch	...	Himself (in WWI) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hans Frank	...	Himself (speech) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Henri Giraud	...	Himself (handshake with de Gaulle) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Josef Goebbels	...	Himself (speech) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rudolf Hess	...	Himself (Hitler Is Germany speech) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Walter Hewel	...	Himself (with jubilant Hitler, to his right) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Konstantin Hierl	...	Himself (speech) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Adolf Hitler	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Charles Huntziger	...	Himself (in railway carriage for French surrender) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Walter Huston	...	Narrator (uncredited)
Alfred Jodl	...	Himself (looks at map with Hitler) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Pierre Laval	...	Himself (with Pétain at conference table) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Admiral Le Luc	...	Himself (in railway carriage with Huntziger) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robert Lozek	...	Himself (US military attaché, killed in Norway) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Viktor Lutze	...	Himself (watches parade with Hitler) (archive footage) (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Dr. Theodor Morell	...	Himself (with jubilant Hitler, to his left) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Léon Noël	...	Himself (in railway carriage with Huntziger) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Philippe Pétain	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Erich Raeder	...	Himself (with Hitler at Compiègne) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Fritz Reinhardt	...	Himself (speech) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt	...	Himself (Dagger speech) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alfred Rosenberg	...	Himself (speech) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Julius Streicher	...	Himself (speech) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Fritz Todt	...	Himself (speech) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Anthony Veiller	...	Narrator (uncredited)
Joachim von Ribbentrop	...	Himself (with Mussolini and Ciano) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Adolf Wagner	...	Himself (speech) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Maxime Weygand	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
H.G. Winkelman	...	Himself (offers unconditional surrender of all Dutch forces) (archive footage) (uncredited)

Also Known As:

Why We Fight, 3 (USA) (series title)

Runtime:

57 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:PG | Sweden:15

Company:

The War Department

Movie Connections:

Featured in What to Do If Hitler Is Pissed (2008)

WW2 Capra

Divide and Conquer (1943)

*** (out of 4)

Frank Capra directed this propaganda film about how Germany struck against the French and brought the country down to nothing more than slaves of Hitler. Out of the three "Why We Fight" films from Capra I'd say I enjoyed this one the most. The generic animated sequences showing Hitler's battle plans might not look the greatest but the information they show makes it easy to see why Germany was such a strong force. Walter Huston narrates.

All of the Capra WW2 films are worth watching as are the John Ford directed ones.