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Hollywood in 1942

Wartime Hollywood mobilizes stars, studios, propaganda, and entertainment for the home front.

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1942 · Drama

The Magnificent Ambersons

Welles’s follow-up to Citizen Kane traces the decline of a wealthy Midwestern family amid modernization.

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1942 · Dark comedy

To Be or Not to Be

A Polish theater troupe uses performance itself as a weapon against the Nazi occupation.

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1942 · Romantic drama

Casablanca

Past love and wartime duty collide in a Moroccan nightclub under Vichy rule.

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