Know Your Ally: Britain is a 1944 black and white propaganda movie narrated by Walter Huston that reviews the British effort in WWII. It is a complimentary examination of America’s “ally to the east”. The film opens on a screen with the text: “Subsequent films of this series will deal with the other peoples beside whom we fight and with whom we stand or fall”. Football game is played. :33. War zone explosions and soldiers running 1:00. International armies and servicemen 1:26. The camera zooms in on an animated map of Britain 1:39. Britain is picked up off the map and put next to the state of Idaho to show they are the same size 1:50. Bustling life and crowded streets in London 2:06. Double-decker buses 2:13. British and American houses 2:25. Newspaper headlines flash 3:00. Animated map shows Britain’s proximity to the sea 3:20. Different ships are shown 3:34. NYC 3:53. Horserace 4:16. Soccer game 4:27. Nazi meeting hall 4:42. Hitler appears. Newspaper headlines 5:00. Statues and monuments of fallen soldiers 5:25. Munich Pact 5:43. Invasion of Czechoslovakia 5:59. British Conscription Act 6:09. Soldiers march through town 6:23. Hitler smiles and laughs with images of Philip of Spain, Napoleon and Kaiser Wilhelm superimposed over him 6:35. Britain declares war on Germany 6:52. Bombers take to the sky and drop leaflets over Germany 7:00. German tanks roll into action 7:17. Map of Europe is shown with German occupied regions 7:51. People listen to Winston Churchill on radio 8:23. Britain stands alone against Germany 8:55. Britain in ruins 9:16. Valiant battles are recounted; Dunkirk and Greece. Devastating losses of Hong Kong, Singapore and Burma 9:50. Factory workers 10:07. British fighters take off 10:20. British attack German ships 10:40. Bombs are dropped 11:10. British bring the war to Germany; Cologne, Lubeck, Rostock, Nuremberg, Munich, Kiel, Mannheim, Wilhelmshaven, Hamburg, Emden, Berlin and other German cities are bombed. War in North Africa 12:00. El Alamein 12:15. Matruh 12:20. Mortars and bombs fly 12:25. Sidi Barrani 12:30. Bengasi 12:48. EL Agheila 12:55. Tripoli 13:02. Troops move across the desert 13:21. Church bells 13:43. Britain celebrates victory. Churches are shown, bells ringing 14:20. German leadership speaks 14:50. Military men speak to the microphone 15:15. Baseball game 15:30. Cricket game 15:35. Serviceman listens to radio 16:20. Man speaks to crowd from soapbox 17:00. Families go to church 17:20. Magna Carta 17:31. Text from the Petition of Right 17:36. Text from the Constitution and First Amendment 17:50. Statues of Lincoln and Washington in London Square 18:34. German propagandists 18:45. Children play in a park 19:15. Color guard at Buckingham Palace 19:40. King’s coronation 20:30. American courthouse 21:00. British courthouse 21:07. Longshoremen on the dock 22:28. Lord Louis Mountbatten, Lord Beaverbrook 22.41. Ernest Bevin, labor leader 22:51. Herbert Stanley Morrison 23:01. German propagandist, 23:26. Animated map shows German advance in Russia 23:45. Newspaper headlines for peace talks 24:05. British politician 24:26. “ Rudolf Hess, Hitler Aid, Flies to Britain” is the headline 24:41. Winston Churchill 24:55. Map of the British Empire 25:15. British flags retract from occupied territories around the globe on map 25:20. Guns fire from warship 26:00. Elephant walks through town in India 26:15. Scenes from India 26:40. Indian Army on horseback 26:55. Jan Christian Smuts, British Prime Minister of South Africa 27:05. Pandit Nehru 27:50. Mohammed Ali Jinnah 27:54. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, independence activist 28:00. Mahatma Gandhi 28:03. “Britain offers India Dominion Status After War” is the headline 28:10. “Sir Stafford Cripps Confers With Indian leaders” is the headline 28:12. Animated maps of India and Europe 28:30. War casualties 29:45. Planes fly 30:00. British Navy 30:20. Men abandon ship 31:04. British factory worker 31:32. Whitten Brown, navigator of the first successful non-stop transatlantic flight 32:13. Peeling potatoes 32:41. Women march through Britain for war effort 33:20. Factories 34:20. Country scenery 34:43. Shipyards 35:02. Factories are shown 35:20. Munitions factory 35:36. Animated shipping lanes from US to Britain 35:52. Wartime preparations and rations 37:49. Britons are taxed heavily for the war 38:15. Excess profits tax is 100% 38:25. High income tax on wealthy 97.5% 38:45. Children are fed well 39:30. Winston Churchill speaks 40:00. Choir sings 40:35. British soldiers march 41:00.

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