Academy War Film Collection: Farm Battle Lines

807 views · Published 12 November 2015 · 10:45 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: Oscars · 2015 · Film & Animation

Watch on YouTube

"Farm Battle Lines" (1942) demonstrates lesser-known ways in which Southern farmers are contributing to the war effort through harvesting improved strains of cotton for use in explosives, increasing productivity with alternate fertilization methods and utilizing home canning to lessen the amount of food that must be transported to the South.

Learn more about the Academy War Film Collection by clicking the following link http://www.oscars.org/film-archive/collections/academy-war-film-collection

More from this channel

• 0:37 Seeing celebrities at the Oscars®

  Oscars

  4,021 views · 20 February 2008

• 1:08 2010 Governors Awards - Mark Johnson on Jean-Luc Godard

  Oscars

  2,695 views · 15 November 2010

• 0:57 The Story Behind "Waste Land": 2011 Docs! Panel

  Oscars

  452 views · 17 April 2012

• 4:58 Academy Conversations: Prometheus

  Oscars

  3,885 views · 11 June 2012

• 3:31 Best Picture Closeup: Gravity

  Oscars

  3,186 views · 19 March 2014

• 7:29 Academy Conversations: The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden

  Oscars

  3,758 views · 22 April 2014

• 6:00 Deconstructing Gravity: Astronaut Cady Coleman

  Oscars

  1,321 views · 16 May 2014

• 9:52 Academy Conversations: This Is Where I Leave You

  Oscars

  3,808 views · 30 September 2014