Documentary · France · 1970 · 1h 40m

Why America

Pourquoi l'Amérique

Director

Cast

Françoise Christophe as Narrator Pia Colombo as Narrator Pierre Andrieux as Narrator Jacques Castelot as Narrator Al Capone as Self (archive footage) Louis Armstrong as Self (archive footage)

Synopsis

A film about America between the world wars that attempts to capture and interpret the vital moving forces in American society that caused the United States to emerge by the end of World War II as a dominant world power.

Key Collaborators

Frédéric Rossif Director

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