My Country 'Tis of Thee

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A panoramic view of American history from the Pilgrims to 1950 utilizing archival footage.A panoramic view of American history from the Pilgrims to 1950 utilizing archival footage.A panoramic view of American history from the Pilgrims to 1950 utilizing archival footage.

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Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total

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Marvin Miller

Narrator
(voice)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self
(archive footage)
(as Franklin Delano Roosevelt)

Chester W. Nimitz

Self
(archive footage)
(as Admiral Nimitz)

George S. Patton

Self
(archive footage)
(as General Patton)

George C. Marshall

Self
(archive footage)
(as General George Marshall)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self
(archive footage)
(as General Eisenhower)

Henry H. Arnold

Self
(archive footage)
(as General 'Hap' Arnold)

Douglas MacArthur

Self
(archive footage)
(as General Douglas MacArthur)

Harry S. Truman

Self
(archive footage)
(as President Truman)

Erville Alderson

William Seward
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Sidney Blackmer

Theodore Roosevelt
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Truman Bradley

Voice Announcing D-Day Invasion
(voice)
(uncredited)

Douglas Kennedy

Paratrooper
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

John Litel

Patrick Henry
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Frank McGlynn Sr.

Abraham Lincoln
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Grant Mitchell

John Quincy Adams
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Addison Richards

Thomas Jefferson
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Ferris Taylor

John Adams
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

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Trivia
The DVD version apologizes for any ethnic stereotypes that may appear in the film.

Goofs
The narration claims that the plane carrying the first atomic bomb took off from Okinawa. This statement is incorrect - it took off from Tinian in the Marianas.

Quotes
[first lines]
Abraham Lincoln: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Narrator: Upon that proposition, this great land of liberty was founded. And to this day the persecuted, the oppressed, the weary look upon our shores with eyes of hope.

Crazy credits
Credited narrator Marvin Miller identifies the remaining credited cast members as they appear on screen.

Connections
Edited from Give Me Liberty (1936)

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Featured review

1/10

Alarmingly protofascist

Even given that this was produced in 1950 during the Cold War, this short film is egregious propaganda. It relates our history in terms that invite a comparison with Nazi spin. One would think that the citizens of the USA were some master race. The Indians "moved westward" after their conflicts with the white settlers. The quick look at the Civil War does not even mention slavery. What we're given here is a version of American History that has no relation to reality. Scary stuff. I can heartily recommend this to students of history who want to research the McCarthy era, with its Communist paranoia -- perhaps this is an attempt by Hollywood to fend off the witch hunt and the subsequent blacklisting of many writers and directors.