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The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened.The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened.The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 1 win total
Henry Fonda
- Narrator
- (voice)
Jane Darwell
- Narrator
- (voice)
James Roosevelt
- Self - US Army Major
- (as Major Roosevelt)
Donald Crisp
- Main Narrator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Irving Pichel
- Narrator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Jimmie Thach
- Self - Naval Aviator
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaDirector John Ford and cinematographer Joseph H. August were wounded by enemy fire while filming the battle.
- Quotes
Main Narrator: Midway Island. Not much land right enough, but it's our outpost. Your front yard.
- ConnectionsEdited into Ils ont filmé la guerre en couleur (2000)
- SoundtracksAmerica, My Country Tis of Thee
(1832) (uncredited)
Music by Lowell Mason, based on the Music by Henry Carey from "God Save the King" (1744)
Words by Samuel F. Smith
Played in the score and later sung by an offscreen chorus
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THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY {Short} (John Ford, 1942) **1/2
This Oscar-winning documentary – by one of the most revered American film-makers who would have celebrated his birthday on the day I watched this – is quite celebrated, having even been treated to a 2-page spread in the early 1980s British periodical "The Movies". However, the passage of time has not been at all kind to it: not only, at just 18 minutes, does it not dwell in sufficient detail on the famous conflict that purportedly changed the course of the Pacific War
but the whole is lent the director's typically homespun – read sappy – approach, which really dates it! The film obviously retains historical value for its rare colour footage of the battle (some of which was actually incorporated in the star-studded 1976 Hollywood rendition of these same events, MIDWAY!) and, for the record, Ford regulars Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell supply the intermittent narration.
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- Bunuel1976
- Feb 4, 2014
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- Runtime18 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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