Warclouds in the Pacific
This short film examines the Japan that emerged at the beginning of the 1900s and was firmly established as an industrialized nation by the outbreak of World War II. Facing the greatest threat in their history, the democracies of the Pacific took careful stock of this new Japan and its strength, and erected a vast system of defence across the world's greatest ocean.
- 5.5
- 1941
- Released
- 0h 21m

Lorne Greene
Narrator (voice)
Emperor Hirohito of Japan
Himself (archive footage)
Aisin-Gioro Puyi
Himself (archive footage)Released
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What’s probably most noticeable about this otherwise fairly generic wartime documentary is that though it was commissioned by the Canadian Film Board, it doesn’t really feature very much by way of Canadian military prowess. Indeed, aside from a very brief potted history of the industrialisation of Japan - built, it suggests, on Nazi inspiration and expertise - it focuses more on the US and UK oper