Academy Awards, USA 1945
| Won Oscar | Best Documentary, Features |
Twentieth Century-Fox Film
Directed by Edward Steichen
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
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WWII documentary about life aboard an American aircraft carrier. After a long voyage across the Pacific, they engage with the Japanese at various islands. It incorporates stunning point-of-view footage from cameras mounted on the guns of attacking planes and captures the deep colors of sunrise and sunset on deck of the carrier. It occasionally stoops to jingoism, but this was made at the height of the war when the outcome was far from certain.
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