Prelude To War & The Nazis Strike: Why We Fight (1943) Rating: Starring: Robert Anderson, Pietro Badoglio, Aristide Briand, Kai-Shek Chiang, Galeazzo Ciano Director: Frank Capra Category: Documentary Studio: GT Media Subtitles: [None] Length: 104 mins Want to buy?           The Axis Conquest Begins These acclaimed documentaries were made during World War II, using actual newsreel footage, by three Oscar® winners: producer-director Frank Capra (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take It With You) of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, composer Dimitri Tiomkin (High Noon, The High and the Mighty, The Old Man and the Sea) and actor-narrator Walter Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre). Prelude To War The first film won a 1943 Academy Award for Best Documentary, and recounts the Japanese incursion into Manchuria, the Italian conquest of Ethiopia, and the beginnings of the Nazi takeover in Eastern Europe. The Nazis Strike This documents the relentless advance of Germany's mighty military machine, as Hitler's armies terrorize their victims with blitzkrieg tactics and spread through the Rhineland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland.