The Battle of Midway
A stark, historically urgent documentary capturing a pivotal naval battle in real time, balancing the gravity of warfare with the documentary impulse to record and witness.
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.
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