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Music Land

Director: Wilfred Jackson Release Date: October 5, 1935 Rating: ★★★★★ ♕ Review: In ‘Music Land’ a young violin falls in love with a young saxophone, much to the disapproval of their parents, the queen...

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The Sinking of the Lusitania

Director: Winsor McCay Release Date: 1918 Rating: ★★★★★ ♕ Review: McCay’s fourth venture into animation is even more curious than the preceding three (‘Little Nemo‘, ‘How A Mosquito Operates‘ and...

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Prophets and Lessons

Director: Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin Release Date: 1967 Rating: ★★★ Review: ‘Prophets and Lessons’ is a Soviet propaganda film. It tells us how every time the Western world predicted the Soviet Union to...

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Donald Gets Drafted

Director: Jack King Release Date: May 1, 1942 Stars: Donald Duck, Pete Rating: ★★½ Review: The attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, suddenly smacked The United States into war. The war changed the...

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Operation X-70

Director: Raoul Servais Release Date: 1971 Rating: ★★½ Review: Operation X-70 is a half silly, half scary short by Belgian film maker Raoul Servais. It tells about a poisonous gas, which turns people...

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Это в наших силах (We Can Do It)

Director: Lev Atamanov Release Date: 1970 Rating: ★★★★★ Review: From a fascistic egg sprouts a military bird. The young bird is fed by a capitalist and a general (who both are clearly American) with...

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Ave Maria

Director: Ivan Ivanov-Vano Release Date: 1972 Rating: ★★½ Review: ‘Ave Maria’ is a very grim anti-Vietnam film, made in the Soviet Union. It combines paintings of the Virgin Mary with images of war....

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火垂るの墓 (Grave of the Fireflies)

Director: Isao Takahata Release Date: April 16, 1988 Rating: ★★★★★ ♕ Review: Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Akiyuki Nosaka, ‘Grave of the Fireflies’ is a strong, emotional and immensely...

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Great Guns

Director: Unknown Release Date: October 17, 1927 Stars: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Rating: ★★★ Review: War has broken out. This leads to a surprisingly cheerful crowd of people happily volunteering to be...

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Yankee Doodle Mouse

Directors: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera Release Date: June 26, 1943 Stars: Tom & Jerry Rating: ★★★★★ Review: In this Tom and Jerry short their chase routine is pictured as if it were World...

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Le petit soldat (The Little Soldier)

Director: Paul Grimault Date: 1947 Rating:  ★★★★★ ♕ Review: One of the most poetic animation films ever made, ‘le petit soldat’ is a very inspired re-telling of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy...

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Combat de titans (The Battle of the Titans)

Director: Albert Barillé Airing date: March 26?, 1983 Rating: ★★★★★ Review: In the opening scene of this next to final episode, Cassiopeian general Teigneux (Pest) convinces his senate to give an...

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Сказка сказок (Tale of Tales)

Director: Yuri Norstein Release Date: 1979 Rating: ★★½ Review: In ‘Tale of Tales’ we’re watching a wolf cub trying to survive his loneliness in an old house, relying on his memories. These images are...

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Pigeon Patrol

Director: Alex Lovy Release Date: August 3, 1942 Rating: ★★★ Review: ‘Pigeon Patrol’ is a typical war era cartoon. It tells about Homer Pigeon, a dopey little country pigeon, whose girl Daisy May is...

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Blunder Below

Director: Dave Fleischer Release Date: February 13, 1942 Stars: Popeye Rating: ★★★★ Review: Popeye had joined the navy before the United States entered the war, in ‘The Mighty Navy’ (November 1941), so...

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Fleets of Stren’th

Director: Dave Fleischer Release Date: March 13, 1942 Stars: Popeye Rating: ★★★ Review: ‘Fleets of Stren’th’ is the third in a series of cartoons in which Popeye has joined the American navy. In this...

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Bosko the Doughboy

Director: Hugh Harman Release Date: October 17, 1931 Stars: Bosko Rating: ★★★ Review: In ‘Bosko the Doughboy’ Bosko is a soldier during World War one. The cartoon opens spectacularly with several war...

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Peace on Earth

'Peace on Earth' is a Christmas cartoon, but a highly unusual one. With 'Peace on Earth' Hugh Harman daringly combines the world of cute animals to gloomy and surprisingly realistic images of war and...

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お猿の三吉~防空戦~ (Sankichi the Monkey: The Air Combat)

With 'Sankichi the Monkey: The Air Combat' we're clearly in propaganda area. The film's motto says it all: "Protect our sky! The best defense is offense!".

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Foney Fables

'Foney Fables' is a spot gag cartoon on fairy tales, very much in the vain of 'A Gander at Mother Goose' (1940), sharing the realistic hand skipping pages of a storybook with the former cartoon.

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