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In the run-up to the election, we\\u2019re all listening to speeches - and many of them are grappling with the very\\xa0idea\\xa0of America: what do we want America to be? This episode of\\xa0Fishko Files\\xa0goes back to the World War II era, when, as WNYC\'s Sara Fishko tells us, Hollywood movies were asking the same question - or rather, answering it.

Jeanine Basinger\'s\\xa0The World War II Combat Film: Anatomy of a Genre, David Welky\'s\\xa0The Moguls and the Dictators, and Thomas Doherty\'s\\xa0Projections of War\\xa0are available online.

Some of the films mentioned are available to stream, including:

The Grapes of Wrath\\xa0(1940)

The Great Dictator\\xa0(1941)

Casablanca\\xa0(1943)

Watch on the Rhine\\xa0(1943)