Oscars Nominees for Best Documentary Feature
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- DirectorJohn FordStarsHenry FondaJane DarwellLogan RamseyThe Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened.Winner
- StarsPeter BathurstDamien ParerCameraman Damien Parer has just returned from the front in New Guinea, where he's documented Australian troops in action. He explains this to us in a prolog. We then see air drops of supplies, wounded men being carried on stretchers by native porters, and men leaving camp to go to the front. There's a tiny bit of possibly staged combat footage. A narrator explains that the Japanese soldiers are expert at disguise, and how important support from the home front is.Winner
- DirectorIlya KopalinLeonid VarlamovStarsN. DubravinEdward G. RobinsonJoseph StalinA number of frontline cameramen shot the footage used in this documentary of the Battle of Moscow, between October 1941 and January 1942,in which a people's war against the German invaders, whose atrocities are shown in graphic detail, is begun, with echoes of traditional Russian heroism and an appeal to save the country's religious and cultural monuments.Winner
- DirectorFrank CapraAnatole LitvakStarsWalter HustonVictor Bulwer-LyttonKai-Shek ChiangThe official World War II US Government film statement defining the various enemies of the Allies and why they must be fought.Winner
- DirectorLouis De RochemontStarsWestbrook Van VoorhisThe reason for the hard Nazi-resistance to the Allied invasion of Tunis has been revealed to officials of the MARCH of TIME,whose film "Africa- Prelude to Victory (V. 09, No. 5, December 4, 1942) covers both the planning and execution of the great Allied Military Maneuver in North Africa. It is this: Nazis captured by the United Nations forces express the greatest shock at being fed decent food.These prisoners are arrogant and domineering. Their first shock comes when they learn the United States citizens are not starving, as they had been told by their officers and Berlin propaganda. When they hear that Stalingrad has not fallen they refuse to believe it as they have been told. But they learn. They learn.
- StarsWalter HustonFollows the crew of a Mitchell bomber from the 2nd BG as they fight submarines.
- DirectorSlavko VorkapichTime wasted is time given to the enemy...
- DirectorJack CuttingDavid HandBill JusticeThis animated documentary outlines the history and importance of corn in North America.
- DirectorRoger BarlowStarsCanada LeeDocumentary short film dramatizing the efforts of a black farmer and his family to help the American war effort by increasing production.
- DirectorRaymond SpottiswoodeStarsPhil BrownAn Oscar-nominated film describing migration among birds in North America emphasizing the international character of many of the flights of different species.
- DirectorJohn FernhoutIn the aftermath of the Allied defeat in the battle for Java, after which the island fell into Japanese hands, this propaganda film made for American audiences shows what has been lost.
- StarsKai-Shek ChiangLorne GreeneHirohitoAn Oscar-nominated war-time propaganda film on the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. It followed the government of Chiang Kai-shek as their society changed and they fight back against the now-common enemy (to the US), Japan.
- DirectorWill PriceStarsHenry FondaMae MarshWartime documentary propagandizing for greater participation in the U.S. war effort during the Second World War.
- DirectorHumphrey JenningsStewart McAllisterStarsLeonard BrockingtonJoseph MacleodBud FlanaganA depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the turmoil and privation caused by the war, all without narration.
- A profile of the more than 2,000 Belgian refugees in the fishing port of Brixham.
- DirectorVictor StoloffStarsCharles Boyer
- DirectorBasil WrangellStarsJohn NesbittKai-Shek ChiangAdolf HitlerFollowing Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, America was rife with rumors about the size of Japan's armed forces and how well-equipped they were to wage war against the U.S. Using animation, the first part of this film dispels these rumors by showing that the U.S. had more raw materials and more fighting ships. The narrator also cautions moviegoers against spreading rumors (which are often initiated by enemy infiltrators to create fear and dissention) and believing everything they read in the newspapers. Just because "they say" something, that doesn't make it true.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsRonald ReaganLaraine DayCharles WinningerDocumentary short film depicting the work of the United Service Organizations (USO) in providing recreational and morale-boosting services for American troops.
- DirectorWilfred JacksonBen SharpsteenStarsCliff EdwardsClarence NashFred ShieldsAnimated documentary promoting timely filing and payment of Federal income taxes, demonstrated by Donald Duck's difficulties with his tax return.
- DirectorWilliam H. PineStarsHenry WallaceVice-President narrates a patriotic, propaganda short designed to boost morale in the the early days of World War II.
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsKnox ManningThis Vitaphone 'Technicolor Special' (production number 8001) portrays the behind-the-scenes story of the building and manning, during World War Two, of the USA supply line to Victory against the Axis powers, the United States Merchant Marine service.
- DirectorHarry Watt
- DirectorWilliam H. Pine
- DirectorEugeniusz CekalskiStarsEugeniusz CekalskiZbigniew GrabowskiLeslie HowardAn Oscar-nominated British documentary about the Polish people who escaped Poland and were living in England during World War II, both civilians and soldiers.
- DirectorOwen CrumpJohn HustonStarsJames StewartJean AmesLeah BairdInspirational short film designed to encourage recruits for the American Army Air Forces.