Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Why We Fight

Why We Fight
Voting period ends on 27 Feb 2015  at 01:19:31 (UTC)
 * Reason:Why We Fight is a series of seven documentary films commissioned by the United States government during World War II whose purpose was to show American soldiers the reason for U.S. involvement in the war. Later on they were also shown to the general U.S. public to persuade them to support American involvement in the war. Most of the films were directed by Frank Capra, who was daunted yet impressed and challenged by Leni Riefenstahl's propaganda film Triumph of the Will and worked in direct response to it. The series faced a tough challenge: convincing a recently non-interventionist nation of the need to become involved in the war and ally with the Soviets, among other things. In many of the films, Capra and other directors spliced in Axis powers propaganda footage going back twenty years, and re-contextualized it so it promoted the cause of the Allies. Why We Fight was edited primarily by William Hornbeck, although some parts were re-enacted "under War Department supervision" if there was no relevant footage available. The animated portions of the films were produced by the Disney studios – with the animated maps following a convention of depicting Axis-occupied territory in black.


 * Articles in which this image appears:For the sake of simplicity, they are collected on the page Why We Fight, although each has an independent Wikipedia article.
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/History/World War II
 * Creator:Frank Capra


 * Support as nominator – TomStar81 (Talk) 01:19, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * For the sake of clarification, I support both versions, with a preference for alt 1. TomStar81 (Talk) 11:45, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose these versions - We have webm files of higher resolution in the Commons category (uploaded while I was back in Canada; I'll be damned if I spend 3 hours uploading a single file again). — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:04, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Do we have films for each of the ones covered here? If so then I'd be happy to go fishing for them to add them here as alt versions. TomStar81 (Talk) 13:38, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes. Considering I uploaded them, I can be sure that we do. (Actually, I think I tried nomming one of these a while ago. Didn't work). — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:47, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I've added the .webm versions in the alt 1 gallery for consideration. For reasons that escape me there appears to be no .webm version of the 6th film, The Battle For China, on the Commons. Any idea where we could find it? TomStar81 (Talk) 00:00, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Odd. Let me get that again. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:10, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * (It ended up taking like 5 hours yesterday... that's why I don't upload this kind of stuff from home usually). — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:19, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Support the second set. Higher fidelity. I recall getting a DVD box set of these films for my birthday one year... — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:28, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose this version as per Crisco. Mattximus (talk) 00:03, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * For the sake of clarification, are you opposing the original, the alternate, or both? TomStar81 (Talk) 00:07, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 03:23, 27 February 2015 (UTC)