Sep 14, 1942
18 min
Full-HD

The Battle of Midway (1942)

The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, in 2006.

Category

Documentary War

Country

United States of America

Companies

United States Navy

Henry Fonda

Narrator (voice)

Jane Darwell

Narrator (voice)

Donald Crisp

Main Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Irving Pichel

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

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