This 6 DVD set offers an amazing collection of original films concerning events that shaped our nation during this tumultuous time. It offers amazing films of actual war footage in a variety of battles taken during actual battles by correspondent reporters, films documenting the efforts and sacrifices the American people wen through as a post depression economy retooled itself to become a wartime producer, footage of the Japanese internment program in America and much more. The time period covered is 1941 to 1946.

The contents of each DVD is documented below.

A great war film showing the step-by-step events that led up the attack of Pearl Harbor and the Untied States total committment to the war. It also shows the invasion of Austria and Czechoslovakia, the fall of France and many more actual film clips of pivotal moments in the early days of the war.

Producer: U.S. Office of War Information
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 41:42

Experience an autumn 1942 bombing run of B-17s as they drop their deadly load over occupied Europe.

Producer: U.S. Office of War Information, Bureau of Motion Pictures
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 10:39

This news segment covers the deadly attack on Pearl Harbor and the S.S. Normandie Fire in New York.

Producer: Castle Films
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 9:35

Learn the steps our armed forces were taking to protect the United States mainland from attack.

Producer: Film Unit, Office For Emergency Planning
Audio/Visual: Sound, sepia
Run time: 8:36

This film explores the need for secrecy and classified information to protect our troops and the safety of hour homeland. It covers information known to military personnel and civilian workers and how they must be ever vigilant about possible careless mention of something that the enemy could use to cause a disaster or create sabotage that could set back our war effort.

Producer: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 10:21

Motivational film for the industrial workers during WWII. It shows how these brave men and women are working extra hard to produce the goods needed for the wartime effort.

Producer: Jam Handy Organization
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 10:09

This victory motivated film shows how the willingness of the American worker in industry is what will win the war. It contrasts it against the forced labor situations that the Axis runs under and how free people working towards a common goal will always prevail.

The film has dramatic footage of cities being destroyed throughout Europe and how the Nazis came in and took over the industry and forced the natives to work for them as slaves and it shows how these slaves wil never outperform a free people.

And it is this freedom that allows us to create the machines that will win the war.

Producer: U.S. Army, Signal Corps
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 10:21

Shows how United States colleges reorganize themselves to assist in the war effort in any way they possibly can - using their labs for testing new developments, having the students train for war and much more.

Producer: RKO-Pathe
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 18:07

A barbershop discussion about how labor and management must work closely together and put aside the typical employee/employer differences to mobilize for a successful war effort.

Producer: Jam Handy Organization
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 10:35

Shows now the Nazis expanded their empire. Includes scenes of them bombing Holland, invading France and Belgium and other countries. It also shows teh evacuation of the British army at Dunkirk.

Producer: U.S. War Department
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 54:18

This films defends the Japanese internment program showing how they Japanese were relocated from the West Coast to inland relocation camps. It talks about how they relocated 100,000 people, many of whom were American citizens to these camps to guarantee safety agains espionage.

Producer: U.S. Office of War Information
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 9:26

This film gives a depiction of the Japanese as fanatical murders and builds a hugely negative and hateful stereotype to help the American forces get a proper understanding for and anger about their murderous and ruthless enemy.

Producer: U.S. Office of War Information, Bureau of Motion Pictures
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 19:51

This film looks at the contributions of the handicapped workers in WWII industry. It shows how various workers participated and gave their all so that the able bodied men can go overseas to fight on the front line while they carried out the fight on the home land. It has great scenes of various plants being retooled for wartime production of guns, tanks, ammunition, aircraft, etc. It showed how the handicapped did their work with skill and pride.

Producer: Unknown
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 20:16

Shows how three cities in America are mobilizing for the war effort.

Producer: U.S. Office Of War Information, Bureau of Motion Pictures
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 10:08

Shows the efforts of public agencies in being sure everyone had nutritious food to eat to stay strong during this time of war.

Producer: U.S. Office of War Information
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 10:21

Educates American workers on the value of time and how it should not be wasted during the war. It shows how just a small amount of increased time efficiency dramatically increases production.

Producer: RKO-Pathe
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 10:40

An examination of how war plant workers migrate to the town of Sylacauga, Alabama. It shows how the town takes steps to make sure the new workers are welcomed into the town with expansion of facilities to service them. It is an excellent example of the unity that extended across the nation during the war.

Producer: U.S. Office of War Information, Bureau of Motion Pictures
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 8:55

This film shows the damage being caused by the 24/7 wartime production schedules and military service on families. It shows how children, especially teens, are being left unsupervised and doing whatever they want - including crime, drugs and developing loose sexual mores.

Producer: Unknown
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 10:49

A film that discusses the critical importance of good nutrition during wartime.

Producer: U.S. Office of War Information
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 9:50

Demonstrates the techniques used to increase manpower in factories to boost industrial production for the war.

Producer: U.S. Office of War Information
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 8:32

See how the government used the railroad as an efficient mover of troops during wartime. This film shows how the loading of cargo and pasengers is organized and managed, how they travel through the countryside carrying all those weapons and the daily activities of the soldiers as they travel across the country with their equipment.

Producer: U.S. Office of War Information
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 13:15

Demonstrates the master strategy that was employed in the battle of the Marshall Islands. Details the use of land, air and sea forces to go in and crush the enemy. It points out that the Japanese were fierce foes and that of the 10,000 or so Japanese that were battled only 264 surrendered. The rest fought to the death.

Producer: U.S. War Department, Army Pictorial Service
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 15:34

This folm is focused on showing the American people that the Japanese interment camps were not like a summer camp for children. It showed that they had to work hard and that many of their needs were provided by their labor so that the government subsidized cost of the internment was very minimal. It also points out that most Japanese Americans are actually loyal citizens but it is necessary to take these steps to ensure safety. It even has a section showing Japanese American fighting units being trained to demonstrate the loyalty of most Japanese.

Producer: U.S. War Relocation Authority
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 17:13

This is a stirring film about a soldier in Bataan who is attacked and dies thinking he needs to write a letter to home to explain just how undersupplied the army is in most places and that Americans need to sacrifice a little bit more to ensure the troops are adequately supplied. It is set to the backdrop of showing several Americans hoarding and gloating about their material possessions - possessions that if redirected to the military could help them fight better and win the war quicker.

Producer: Paramount Pictures
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 13:51

This is a drama about Steve and Ellen, a young married couple. Steve enlists in the Navy and while on deployment, his ship is attacked and he dies. He comes to Ellen in a dream and talks about how what he was doing was the most important thing int he world because we was fighting to protect the safety of his family. The film ends with an appeal to buy war bonds to help finance the war and destroy the Japanese.

Producer: U.S. Navy
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 12:29

Propoganda film aimed at increasing the homeland about the need to further mobilize all efforts for the war.

Producer: U.S. Navy
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 18:29

Women workers in factories were a fairly new phenomen brought out by the war. This film examines ways managers can manage their new work force for maximum productivity.

Producer: Kerkow (Herbert) Productions
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 10:10

An examination of transportation methods employed during wartime.

Producer: U.S. War Department
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 10:48

A collection of 7 commercials for Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical plants during WWII. It contains a variety of scenes of various parts of airplanes being built and includes some excellent footage of combat aircraft.

Producer: Jam Handy Organization
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 8:58

This film examines the value of time during the war. It examines ways to increase factory productivity while at the same time deal with home life.

Producer: Kerkow (Herbert) Inc.
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 10:13

Shows how a Frigidaire plant converts its production line to military endeavors during the war.

Producer: Jam Handy Organization
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 15:08

A discussion of juvenile delinquency during the war and steps that can be taken to counter it.

Producer: Chicago Film Laboratory
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 17:27

A discussion of how the government put into place program to match everyone to a suitable job tohelpthe wartime effort.

Producer: Berndt-Maurer Corporation
Audio/Visual: Sound, Color
Run time: 8:35

Shows workers in a Wisconsin town gearing up for wartime production.

Producer: Jam Handy Organization
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 15:24

Education film on how to combat sexually transmitted diseases during wartime.

Producer: California Department of Public Health in cooperation with U.S. Public Health Service
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run time: 20:51