A Nation Is Born (1947)

This RKO short part of the This is America series details as much as possible in a 20minute short the transformation following World War II of the Philippine Islands from a divided country of six languages and 80 dialects into a unified democracyloving nation The story is told largely through the experience of Thomas Briggs an Ohio school teacher who years before the Japanese invasion of WWII began his efforts of bringing unity and the story of democracy to the Islands