Filmography
This is a list of selected USAAF films produced by Warner Bros. prior to the formation of the FMPU:
| Year | Title | Participants | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | Winning Your Wings | John Huston*, Owen Crump*, Jimmy Stewart, Alfred Newman (music) | Nominated for Best Documentary Academy Award |
| 1942 | Men of the Sky | B. Reeves Eason*, Owen Crump**, Tod Andrews, Eleanor Parker, Don DeFore | Original title Under Those Wings |
| 1942 | Beyond the Line of Duty | Lewis Seiler,* Ronald Reagan** | Won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short |
| 1943 | The Rear Gunner | Ray Enright*, Ronald Reagan, Burgess Meredith |
The growing demand for training films overwhelmed Warner Bros. and the USAAF established an inhouse film production unit. The FMPU released over 400 films between 1942 and 1945, many of which have been lost or destroyed. This list is representative of that output:
| Year | Title | Participants | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | Learn and Live | Bernard Vorhaus*, Guy Kibbee | |
| 1943 | Three Cadets | Craig Stevens, Kent Smith, Ralph Byrd, William T. Orr | Prevention and treatment of venereal disease |
| 1943 | Ditching: Before and After | ||
| 1943 | Aircraft Wood Repair | ||
| 1943 | Basic Electricity As Applied to Electronic Control Systems | ||
| 1943 | Cadet Classification | Ronald Reagan** | |
| 1943 | Recognition of the Japanese Zero Fighter | Bernard Vorhaus*, Art Gilmore**, Ronald Reagan | |
| 1943 | Reconnaissance Pilot | William Holden | |
| 1943 | Wings Up | Clark Gable**, Gilbert Roland, William Holden, Robert Preston, Brenda Marshall | |
| 1943 | Photographic Intelligence in Bombardment Aviation | Alan Ladd | |
| 1943 | Flying the P-61 Series Airplane | ||
| 1943 | Reconnaissance Pilot | ||
| 1943 | The First Motion Picture Unit | ||
| 1944 | The Earthquakers | Irving Pichel** | |
| 1944 | Flak! | ||
| 1944 | Air Defense Team | Van Heflin | |
| 1944 | Position Firing | Mel Blanc** | Animated |
| 1944 | Air Pattern: Pacific | Van Heflin | |
| 1944 | Land and Live in the Jungle | Van Heflin | |
| 1944 | Resisting Enemy Interrogation | Bernard Vorhaus*, Arthur Kennedy, Lloyd Nolan, Mel Tormé | Nominated for Best Documentary Feature Academy Award |
| 1944 | Flight Characteristics of the P-51 Airplane | ||
| 1944 | Camouflage | Frank Thomas* | Animated |
| 1944 | Combat America | Clark Gable** | |
| 1944 | Ditch and Live | ||
| 1944 | Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress | William Wyler*, Robert Morgan, Vince Evans, Gail Kubik (music) | Distributed by Paramount Copy placed in the National Film Registry. |
| 1944 | Target for Today | William Keighley* | |
| 1944 | The B-17 Flying Fortress: Elementary Ground Work | ||
| 1944 | B-29 Flight Procedure and Combat Crew Functioning | Eric Fleming | |
| 1944 | How to Fly the B-26 Airplane | ||
| 1945 | Land and Live in the Desert | Van Heflin** | |
| 1945 | Land and Live in the Ocean | ||
| 1945 | The Last Bomb | Frank Lloyd* | Nominated for Best Documentary Feature Academy Award |
| 1945 | Target Tokyo | William Keighley*, Ronald Reagan** | |
| 1945 | Time to Kill | George Reeves, Barry Nelson, DeForest Kelley, Betty White | Life in the U.S. Navy |
| 1945 | Wings for This Man | Ronald Reagan** | |
| 1945 | Preparation of Special Briefing Films | Special Film Project 152X | |
| 1945 | The Fight for the Sky | Ronald Reagan** | |
| 1945 | Target-Invisible | Arthur Kennedy**, Clayton Moore | |
| 1946 | Army Air Forces Pacific |
- Notes
* director
** narrator
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