“Why We Fight” is a series of seven propaganda films (made between 1942 and 1945) commissioned by the United States government during World War II to demonstrate to American soldiers the reason for U.S. involvement in the war. Later on they were also shown to the general U.S. public to persuade them to support American intervention.Most of the films were directed by Frank Capra, who was daunted and terrified by Leni Riefenstahl’s propaganda film, “Triumph of the Will”, and worked in direct response to it. “