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Which Why We Fight film won an Academy Award for best documentary?

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Frank Capra (From left) Unidentified, Gary Cooper, and Frank Capra on the set of *Mr. Deeds Goes to Town*.

The film Prelude to War (1942), which was part of the Why We Fight series directed by Frank Capra for the U.S. Army Signal Corps, shared an Academy Award for best documentary.1