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- A documentary on the 25th bombing mission of the Memphis Belle, a B-17 in the US 8th Air Force.
- Documentary focusing on the contributions to the American war effort of African-American soldiers.
- Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.
- Documentary short film depicting the harrowing battle between the U.S. Marines and the Japanese for control of the Pacific island of Tarawa.
- Part VII of the "Why We Fight" series of wartime documentaries. This entry attempts to describe the factors leading up to America's entry into the Second World War.
- Director John Huston documents the Battle of San Pietro Infine in December 1943.
- Filmmaker John Huston narrates this Oscar-nominated World War II-era film about life among the U.S. soldiers protecting Alaska's Aleutian Islands.
- Short documentary film about the Dumbarton Oaks plan and the proposed formation of the United Nations.
- A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She persuades Bing Crosby to let her join his caravan.
- Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1954 enjoying the prosperity and advantages made possible by the successful prosecution of the war, and how the sacrifices of 1944 have made the world a better place.
- Inspirational short film designed to encourage recruits for the American Army Air Forces.
- Donald Duck deals with income taxes and their benefit to the American war effort in this inspirational documentary short animated film.
- Animated documentary promoting timely filing and payment of Federal income taxes, demonstrated by Donald Duck's difficulties with his tax return.
- Documentary short film depicting the American assault on the Japanese-held island of Iwo Jima and the massive battle that raged on that key island in the Allied advance on Japan.
- Documentary short film demonstrating the process by which waste fats from the kitchens of American homes can be transformed into the raw materials for explosives for the war effort.
- Documentary short film depicting American Army, Navy, Marine, Air Forces, and Coast Guard joint assaults on a Japanese-held island.
- Documentary short depicting the production, testing, maneuvers and shipping of the M-3 Lee tank for the armies of the United States and its Allies.
- John Jones' (James Cagney) daughter is rehearsing the Gettysburg Address in preparation for a school elocution when he is called away by an air raid alarm. He sits alone in the evening and contemplates how lucky he is in America, where no bombing occurs. He imagines "his baby" (Margaret O'Brien) suffering in the war-torn nations of England, Greece, China, Yugoslavia, France, and Russia, and thanks God that no harm has come to her. When he returns home, his daughter completes her recitation of the Gettysburg Address with her parents as audience.
- Documentary short demonstrating American reasons for interning Americans of Japanese ancestry following the outbreak of war between the U.S. and Japan.
- Documentary short film depicting the work of the United Service Organizations (USO) in providing recreational and morale-boosting services for American troops.
- Documentary short demonstrating the process of building a medium bomber for the United States Army Air Corps.
- Two young women, frustrated by war rationing, have a dream illustrating the likely results on prices in America should the measure were prematurely lifted.
- Documentary short detailing the work and responsibilities of Civil Defense Air Raid Wardens
- Well before he made the Westerns for which he would primarily be remembered, director Budd Boetticher put together this documentary of World War II's Battle of Okinawa from footage shot by Navy cameramen in the thick of the fighting. The vital editing skills Boetticher learned from Academy Award® -winning editor Barbara McLean helped him tell this complicated and protracted story with a directness and power that are both impressive and horrifying, as the soundtrack pounds with bombs and gunnery fire and the screen fills with dozens of Japanese kamikaze pilots deliberately crashing their planes into battleships and aircraft carriers. War correspondent Ernie Pyle makes a brief appearance, only weeks before he was killed on an island near Okinawa. - Marilyn Ferdinand
- Inspirational documentary short film featuring Hollywood stars promoting the sales of War Bonds through songs and skits.
- Animated short documentary film made to advance the cause of a balanced diet for the benefit of the public health and for the advancement of the American war effort.
- The training and work of Cadet Nurses is explored in this documentary short film.
- Short documentary extolling the virtues and necessity for women to participate in America's preparation for war, showing women working in scientific, industrial, and voluntary-services activities.
- Animated documentary short film demonstrating the reasons and methods of the point system of wartime food rationing.
- Documentary depicting and explaining the Allied campaign against the Germans in North Africa.
- Government documentary short explaining the usage and distribution of feature films donated by the motion picture industry for viewing by American troops.
- Documentary short film dramatizing the efforts of a black farmer and his family to help the American war effort by increasing production.
- Short subject intended to promote unified action and sacrifice by Americans on the home front during the war.
- Documentary short film depicting the disastrous result of runaway prices following the First World War and warning Americans against repeating the crisis as the Second World War nears an end.
- Documentary short film detailing the history of the American Women's Army Corps, the WACS.
- Documentary examining the events which led up to the Second World War.
- Documentary short film produced by the U.S. Army, intended to enlighten the American public on the final thrust of the Allied war effort in Europe and on the plans for the return home of American forces.
- The Officers Candidate School of the Army Air Forces is the subject of this documentary short film depicting the rigors of training cadets go through.
- Documentary short depicting the dangers of inadvertent dispersal of secret military information, showing the unintended and disastrous results of careless conversation and improper maintenance of secret records.
- Documentary short film depicting the successful but costly invasions of the Japanese-held islands of Guam, Tinian, and Saipan, in the Mariannas chain.
- Documentary short film depicting the work in a British armaments plant in which the night shift consists of women workers.
- Tom Smith, an American pilot, is shot down and captured by the Japanese. While imprisoned and awaiting execution, he recalls his life at home in the USA.
- Documentary short film explaining the need for secrecy in the exchange of sensitive government information, so as to prevent sabotage or subversion of the American war effort.
- Promotional short extolling the virtues of the American government's wartime Economic Stabilization Plan.
- Documentary short film depicting the successful Allied advance into Rome, freeing it from German control during World War II.
- Short documentary pitching sales of U.S. Defense Bonds and Savings Stamps.
- Documentary short film explaining the Lend-Lease program of American aid to Britain during the Second World War.
- Documentary short film demonstrating methods used by the War Manpower Commission to resolve problems in worker shortages.
- Documentary short film comprised of three stories about the creation and use of synthetic rubber in war materiel, the engineering and construction of defense airports, and the American national campaign to collect used aluminum for recycling into war materials.