https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/122ac569-8aaf-4c32-97b0-e5fbb8dfd438 "The Fight for Liberty" (1941) was made by the National Film Board of Canada (:13) as a morale boost at the start of the third year of WWII. Germans shown moving towards Greece and Egypt. Brewster Buffalos, German BF109's, Italy's African defeat, the Battle of the Atlantic, raids on Britain, deliveries of aid from the USA and the Ogdensburg Agreement are featured. Compiled by James Beveridge Stanley Hawes (:28). The film begins with the Battle for Britain in 1940 (:50), anti-aircraft gunners (:53), the Westminster Bridge and Elizabeth Tower (1:00) follow. Air raid wardens pass under signs for air raid shelters (1:06). Roof spotters sight snipers (1:03). Maps show approaching Nazi forces (1:23) and the spread across the Port City of Narvik (1:30). Covered jeeps cart artillery (1:48). Wide shots capture the 155 mm gun (1:51), Heinkel He 111's (2:15) and the Dornier Do 17 (2:36). Cliffs run up against the shoreline of Kent (3:00). Kent was a valuable tool in the salient offensive and defensive operations of WW2. Civilians move to safe locations within the city (3:02). Anti-aircraft guns blaze (3:06). Fighter aircrafts spin (3:11). 75 mm Armatas aim for air targets (3:15). A German Messerschmitt Bf-109 bends in (3:20). Shoreline installations explode (3:24). A swarm of Junkers Ju-88 (3:26) unleash payloads over the English countryside (3:28). RAF Spitfires (3:34) take off. Luftwaffe losses are calculated (4:02). RAF fighters (4:10) head for Britain in October. Wasted Nazi planes (4:15) litter the grounds. British civilians (4:25) prepare for night air raids. Anti-aircraft guns (4:31) and signs notes air raid shelters (4:36). Searchlifhts (4:40). The Luftwaffe target warehouses (5:07). Rescue workers sift through rubble (5:42). Smoke over Big Ben (6:11) and the House of Parliament (6:15). Clearing debris (6:26). Winston Churchill (7:00). Allied troops parade (7:20). British labor leader Ernest Bevin (7:53). Factory workers smoke; long range guns are wheeled out (8:03). Sherman tanks (8:14) and Britain's Minister of AC Baron Beaverbrook (8:19). Canadian troops march (8:45). The first Canadian divisions (9:02) head overseas. Gunners ready M-101 and 105 mm howitzers (9:16). Survey crews (9:54) level new air fields. Transports arrive in English ports (10:08). Oil tanks move from oil fields (10:15). Troops march near the White House (11:36). Roosevelt is elected for his 3rd term (11:43). King George the Fifth in the New York harbor (11:51) and Lord Halifax; the new British ambassador to Alaska follow (11:54). Factory workers craft new Bristol Blenheim’s (12:22). Lockheed boxes containing ammunition and weaponry (12:27) arrive. On August 7, 1940, Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King head for the Ogdensburg meeting (12:50). Mayor La Guardia of New York arrives (13:01). General Maxime Weygand is pictured (13:34). Aircraft carriers dock in the Martinique harbor (13:54). Chinese troops under Chiang Kai-shek (14:53). Japanese troops follow (14:59). Mussolini waves in September of 1940 (15:53). Italian tanks (15:56) in Egypt. Mussolini celebrates (16:33) and makes preparations for the Brenner Pass. Hitler (16:40) heads for Axis Conference. Calvary head for Greece (17:04). Italian warships arrive in the Mediterranean (17:34). An RAF Douglas Boston (17:43), an A-20 dropping shells (17:49) and the San Giorgio follow (18:04). Aerial shots capture the bombarded port of Genoa (18:17). Scenes from port side in Alexandria show British A9’s (19:40) and a new Brewster Buffalo (19:31). British Colonel Archibald Wavell (19:44) leads a tank division. Benghazi captured (20:50). On May 5th, 1941 Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa (22:17) German forces cross the Danube (22:44) and through the Balkans (23:36). A destroyer christened (24:33). Flower class Corvettes (24:43). Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King at Quebec Conference at Hyde Park. A Douglas DC-2 (25:43) takes off for tests. President Franklin Roosevelt delivers a speech (26:07). Warships with RAF escorts (28:23). U-boats (29:02) and American convoys arrive in the danger zone (29:34). The German raider Bismarck sunk (30:48). German troops push towards Baghdad (31:27) and threaten oil supplies (31:31). British forces capture (31:37) pipelines. Allied forces in British Palestine (31:49). Germans capture Ukrainian grain fields and oil wells (32:27). Stalin reviews troops (32:51). Paratroopers (33:01). Divisions (33:13) in Ukraine. The RAF hits shipping yards (33:51) and oil refineries. Germany's industrial supply and communications lines decimated (34:46). New recruits (35:32) and planes (35:56) join the fight. 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