The Battle Of Midway (1942)

The Battle of Midway chronicles a significant moment in U.S. History, as have other Ford films like Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) and My Darling Clementine (1946), but the focus here is on ordinary Americans filmed at the time, not famous historical figures seen in retrospect.
Although the use of a hand-held 16mm camera will strike some as uncharacteristic of Ford's style, there are many ÂFordian touches throughout the film.

Ford weaves voiceover and music into the real footage of the battle, shaping the material to show us the conflict as he saw it, and moulding these elements into a narrative to show the American people why they're fighting.

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[medievanFAN]

@11hadram11  ww2

[Hirotohiro12]

WW2

[11hadram11]

is this ww1 or ww2

[Hirotohiro12]

Kiminlos , u r mistake.

Ur fatherland,korea was small and weak then.How did it turn out?Pls bear a grudge ur fatherland.

[coskuntoktamis]

THE HYM IS THE UK`S NATIONAL ANTHEM!!!????

[tonyktx44]

The Japs gave up too soon, the Allies should have been allowed a few more months to kill as many as possible, payback is a bitch.

[siktwistofFATE89]

At midway about 350 americans died the japenese had about 3,000 those numbers are crazy

[MrCarflipper]

They should have used Gurkhas to fight they would have done better than the marines!

[OmicronLeonis]

Fistly, British navy was made to scrap 22 modern dreadnaught battleships (about 440,000 tons) while US navy scrapped only 4 dreadnaught battleships,because the Washington Naval Treaty said that both navies should have equal total tonnage of battleships (British navy managed to lose its naval supremacy not by losing a war but by signing a ''peace'' treaty..).

Secondly, Japanese navy was made to have as total tonnage ,the 60% of the US total tonnage.So Japan felt betrayed and looked for new allies

[OmicronLeonis]

Before judging whether or not Japan deserved all that suffering during WW2, remember that USA was the one that ''asked'' British Empire to end the Anglo-Japanese Alliance just a few months before the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. So, USA managed to isolate Japan from the other western victorious countres of WW1 and then, USA achieved 2 very important things with that treaty.