Don't Be A Sucker - 1947 - An anti-fascist film produced by the US Military

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9. Some of them, like this one, really were rather good even from a technical...

POV. The War Department sometimes recruited some the better Hollywood directors and actors too. For instance Frank Cappra directed quite a few and Jimmy Stewart was in one (I think he was in the AF during WWII).

It's been quite a few years since I learned the above so I did a quick Google to confirm that my memories were correct and it wasn't as much as I had thought but impressive nonetheless I think.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Allied_propaganda_films_of_World_War_II#United_States

I was a bit surprised to find in my search that NPR did a rather recent report about Hollywood helping the war effort back then.
http://www.npr.org/2017/03/31/522175483/during-world-war-ii-even-filmmakers-reported-for-duty

While I enjoy the history aspect of the Don't Be A Sucker film, I truly wish with all my heart that it wasn't still so darn pertinent because apparently we didn't learn well enough before.