One World, Big Screen: Hollywood and WWII

WWII coincided with cinema’s golden age, and movies were created at a time when all sides in the war were coming to realize the great power of popular films to motivate the masses.

History professor M. Todd Bennett reveals how the Grand Alliance—Britain, China, USSR and the US—tapped Hollywood’s impressive power to shrink the distance and bridge the differences that separated them through films like Casablanca, Mrs. Miniver and more.