America Goes Over (1918)

Genre

documentary film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 43m

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This silent documentary shows American soldiers training, deploying, and fighting in World War I under General Pershing. It was made by the US government to boost support for the war effort.

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What happens

America Goes Over was a 1918 American silent documentary propaganda film produced by the US Army Signal Corps in 1918, documenting the activities of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I under General John J. Pershing. The movie was a product of the Division of Films of the Committee on Public Information, the Washington, DC–based federal agency in charge of wartime propaganda in the United States. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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