Walter Huston
Walter Thomas Huston (April 5, 1883 – April 7, 1950) was a Canadian actor and singer. Huston won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), directed by his son John Huston. He is the patriarch of the four generations of the Huston acting family, including his son John, grandchildren Anjelica Huston, Danny Huston, Allegra Huston, and great-grandchild Jack Huston.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.791 |
| Birthday | 1883-04-03 |
| Place of Birth | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Also Known As | Walter Thomas Houghston, Walter Thomas Huston, Walter Houghston, |
1988
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
5.9/11
Biography of risk-taker and raconteur John Huston from his childhood to become one of the most highly respected filmmakers in the world.
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John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1942
Yankee Doodle Dandy
7/203
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
1948
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
8/1187
Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandit...
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1932
American Madness
7.1/39
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank r...
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American Madness
1945
And Then There Were None
7/361
Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host to appear, a recording levels serious accusations at...
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And Then There Were None
1932
The Beast of the City
5.9/22
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his corrupt brother Ed to watch over Daisy who was associated with Belmonte.
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The Beast of the City
1936
Dodsworth
7.1/125
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
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Dodsworth
1943
Report from the Aleutians
5.7/17
A documentary propaganda film produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps about the Aleutian Islands Campaign during World War II. The film opens with a ma...
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Report from the Aleutians
1943
The Outlaw
5.4/94
Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in Lincoln, New Mexico on the stage. Doc is trailing his stole...
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The Outlaw
1946
Duel in the Sun
6.3/166
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad...
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Duel in the Sun
1946
Dragonwyck
6.6/102
For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually...
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Dragonwyck
1950
The Furies
7.1/66
A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.
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The Furies
1941
All That Money Can Buy
7.1/81
Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruit...
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All That Money Can Buy
1929
The Virginian
5.5/11
A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling.
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The Virginian
1941
The Shanghai Gesture
6.2/63
A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.
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The Shanghai Gesture
1931
The Criminal Code
6.04/25
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 year...
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The Criminal Code
1948
Summer Holiday
4.9/9
Danville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class neighborhood with his family. He is in love with the gi...
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Summer Holiday
1932
Rain
6.8/46
Due to a possible cholera epidemic onboard, passengers on a ship are forced to disembark at Pago Pago, a small village on a Pacific island where it in...
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Rain
1933
Ann Vickers
5.9/9
After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge...
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Ann Vickers
1941
Swamp Water
6.3/38
A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to to...
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Swamp Water
1929
The Lady Lies
5/2
Much to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a beautiful but "lower-class" woman.
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The Lady Lies
1943
The North Star
6.1/23
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as "Armored Attack."
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The North Star
1943
Edge of Darkness
6.1/33
The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living...
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Edge of Darkness
1931
The Star Witness
6.786/14
A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of reprisals...
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The Star Witness
1932
The Woman from Monte Carlo
5/2
On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is no shore leave, although wives are permitted to c...
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The Woman from Monte Carlo
1932
Kongo
6.4/22
The ruthless Flint, a disabled man, rules an isolated region of Kongo like an omnipotent god, through superstition and sadism, living only for the day...
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Kongo
1933
The Prizefighter and the Lady
5.6/12
An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.
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The Prizefighter and the Lady
1946
Let There Be Light
7.4/39
The final entry in a trilogy of films produced for the U.S. government by John Huston. Some returning combat veterans suffer scars that are more psych...
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Let There Be Light
1942
Always in My Heart
6/4
A man is pardoned from prison and returns to Santa Rita, CA to be with his family, but discovers his children have been told he's dead and his wife is...
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Always in My Heart
1933
Gabriel Over the White House
7/10
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fata...
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Gabriel Over the White House
1943
December 7th
5.7/23
"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii a...
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December 7th
1932
Law and Order
4/5
A legendary lawman and his cohorts set out to restore order to the dangerous streets of Tombstone, Ariz.
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Law and Order
1944
Dragon Seed
6.4/14
The lives of a small Chinese village are turned Upside down when the Japanese invade it. An heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in a...
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Dragon Seed
1938
Of Human Hearts
5.8/20
This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War. Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who minis...
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Of Human Hearts
1931
A House Divided
6.2/2
A New England fisherman's second wife prefers his son.
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A House Divided
1930
Abraham Lincoln
5.4/35
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early ye...
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Abraham Lincoln
1932
The Wet Parade
5.8/4
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton fami...
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The Wet Parade
1932
Night Court
6.3/7
A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a special prosecutor.
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Night Court
1949
The Great Sinner
6.7/20
A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
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The Great Sinner
1943
Mission to Moscow
5.2/17
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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Mission to Moscow
2003
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
6.5/3
An overview of the making of John Huston's 1948 classic "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
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Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
1930
The Virtuous Sin
5/4
Marya gets friendly with General Platoff in order to save her husband Victor from being executed.
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The Virtuous Sin
1931
The Ruling Voice
6/7
A mob boss has a change of heart when his daughter convinces him to move on from crime.
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The Ruling Voice
1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
6.5/2
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1939
The Light That Failed
6/5
A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.
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The Light That Failed
1933
Hell Below
6.3/12
On leave in Italy, Lt. Tommy Knowlton falls in love with Jean Standish, who's not only married, but is the daughter of his submarine's commander. Fric...
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Hell Below
1941
The Maltese Falcon
7.7/1664
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
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The Maltese Falcon
2004
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
7/2
Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film bo...
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Checking Out: Grand Hotel
1929
The Bishop's Candlesticks
0/0
Very early sound version of a one-act play based on the "Bishop" sequence in Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables". The first filming of any portion of "Les...
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The Bishop's Candlesticks
1933
Storm at Daybreak
5.8/4
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into Geza...
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Storm at Daybreak
1984
Going Hollywood: The '30s
10/1
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually get...
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
1942
Safeguarding Military Information
5/2
World War II propaganda short which focuses on the dangers of inadvertent dispersal of military information.
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Safeguarding Military Information
1929
Two Americans
0/0
Presents Lincoln's difficulties with Gen. McClellan and Secretary of State Seward, over the selection of a commander of the Army of the Potomac. Linco...
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Two Americans
1934
Keep 'Em Rolling
6/3
World War I drama about a soldier and the wild horse he befriends.
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Keep 'Em Rolling
1930
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
3.4/4
Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, atten...
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An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
2022
A Compassionate Spy
6.6/4
Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos with no idea what he'll be working on. When he lear...
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A Compassionate Spy
1935
The Tunnel
5.3/22
An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States.
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The Tunnel
1996
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
7.5/2
Glamorous and hugely popular Joan Crawford raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work. D...
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Joan Crawford: Always the Star
1944
Know Your Ally: Britain
4.6/8
Know Your Ally: Britain was a 45-minute propaganda film made in 1944. It was narrated by Walter Huston and produced by the United States War Departmen...
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Know Your Ally: Britain
1929
Gentlemen of the Press
5/1
A newspaperman is drawn away from family life by the needs of his paper until a new woman enters his life.
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Gentlemen of the Press
1930
The Bad Man
0/0
Film version of a play about a Mexican bandit.
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The Bad Man
1936
Rhodes of Africa
6/1
Rhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was directed by Berthold Viertel and starred Walter Huston,...
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Rhodes of Africa
1943
Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike
6.4/24
The second film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series. It introduces Germany as a nation whose aggressive ambitions began in 1863 with...
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Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike
1943
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
6.8/14
The third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conquest of Western Europe in 1940.
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Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
1930
Filmed Prologue to Birth of a Nation
4.5/1
A dialogue between director D. W. Griffith and actor Walter Huston on the subject of Griffith controversial 1915 film "Birth Of A Nation" and it's the...
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Filmed Prologue to Birth of a Nation
1931
Voice of Hollywood (Series 2, No. 3)
0/0
Rare footage of Jean Harlow and Bela Lugosi discussing Dracula, as well as Walter Huston performing a musical number. It exists solely in fragmentary...
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Voice of Hollywood (Series 2, No. 3)
1942
Prelude to War
6.4/66
Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C. Marshall. It was ma...
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Prelude to War
1945
War Comes to America
6.8/15
The seventh and final film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight World War II propaganda film series. This entry attempts to describe the factors leading up t...
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War Comes to America
1944
Why We Fight: The Battle of China
6.2/10
The sixth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series illustrates Japan's occupation of China, including Madame Chiang Kai-Shek's stirri...
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Why We Fight: The Battle of China
1943
Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain
6.8/16
The fourth of Frank Capra's Why We Fight series of seven propaganda films, which made the case for fighting and winning the Second World War. It was r...
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Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain
1945
Know Your Enemy: Japan
5.8/15
Frank Capra-directed propaganda film produced during World War II depicting the United States' new enemy: Japan.
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Know Your Enemy: Japan
1931
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 7: 'The Spoon'
0/0
Bobby Jones instructs a husband and the judge in his divorce proceedings on proper use of the Spoon.
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 7: 'The Spoon'
1943
For God and Country
0/0
The story of the U.S. Army Chaplain Service as dramatized in the stories of three chaplains, Father Michael O'Keefe, Arnold Miller, and Tom Manning.
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For God and Country
1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
5.7/7
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1944
Twenty Years After
6/1
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
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Twenty Years After
1997
Bogart: The Untold Story
0/0
Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends a...
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Bogart: The Untold Story
1957
Armored Attack!
6.2/2
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Re-edited version of The North Star (1943), to remove positive referenc...
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Armored Attack!
1931
Intimate Interviews: Walter Huston
0/0
One of a series of short subjects created for movie theaters in the 1930s, each an interview with a popular actor of the time.
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Intimate Interviews: Walter Huston
1942
Our Russian Front
7/1
Using footage taken by Soviet battlefront cameramen, this penetrating documentary about Russian life during World War II is narrated by Walter Huston...
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Our Russian Front
2008
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
6.4/14
A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.
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Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
1943
The Voice That Thrilled the World
5.3/3
This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from ear...
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The Voice That Thrilled the World
1936
Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
1/1
Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being...
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Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
1930
Behind the Make-Up
6.2/4
Gardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who has a bicycle riding act. Gardoni shows his appreciat...
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Behind the Make-Up
2000
Why We Fight: World War II: The Battle of China / War Comes to America
0/0
Part of Frank Capra's World War II propaganda series made for the U.S. Armed Forces, this program presents newsreel footage addressing the Battle of C...
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Why We Fight: World War II: The Battle of China / War Comes to America
1935
Hollywood Hobbies
6/1
This short documentary narrated by sportscaster Ted Husing explores the free-time activities of some of Hollywood's most popular celebrities. Big name...
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Hollywood Hobbies
1943
War Department Report
5.5/2
The first official War Department Report by the Office of Strategic Services using American newsreel footage and footage of film captured from the ene...
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War Department Report
1942
In This Our Life
6.7/46
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.
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