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Victory at Sea is pure propaganda. Entertaining propaganda, but propaganda none the less.

I always enjoyed the part where they are showing a US sub sinking Japanese ships and the narrator is saying how couragous the skipper is and how the "brave" submarineers are taking the war to the enemy.

Then latter in the movie, they talk about the U-boats in the Atlantic and how cowardly they are for attacking ships without warning.

The attitude conveyed by your post, whether you feel so or no, tends to impart moral equivalence to the efforts of the German sailors and the American sailors who sank ships without warning or mercy. The causes those sailors served could hardly be less equivalent.

TOMLABEL and Spence,

I really didn't take that attitude away from reading Charbroiled's post. I loved Victory at Sea. And I also agree it was propaganda. How the sailors on those sunk ships and their families felt has pretty much nothing to do with the overall moral judgments on the war, how it began, and so on. The same with the sailors on the subs. All of which, of course, is no comment on any individual actions or cases we could dig up.

Victory at Sea was well done and very appropriate for the time and the audience, and yes it was propaganda.