It juxtaposes Beatles songs covered by a variety of musicians with World War II newsreel footage and 20th Century-Fox films.

[4] The film features clips from Nazi German army newsreels, various films from 20th Century Fox and other studios, and from other propaganda films featuring Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, Milton Berle, Humphrey Bogart, Richard Burton, Neville Chamberlain, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Clark Gable, Betty Grable, Adolf Hitler, Bob Hope, Joseph P. Kennedy, Laurel and Hardy, James Mason, Carmen Miranda, Benito Mussolini, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, and James Stewart.

[4] The film has gained a small cult following in the UK since being screened by BBC2 as part of their fifteen-hour themed broadcast "Rock Around The Clock", which ran from the afternoon of 27 August 1983 into the early hours of the next day.

[12] All This and World War II has never been officially released on home video in any format, but pirated copies of the film are available from several collector-to-collector resources.

[13] A version of this film, entitled The Beatles and World War II, was released as a DVD plus two-CD set by Gonzo Multimedia in 2016.

[27] In 2016, a box set featuring the DVD of the film and the soundtrack on two CD's was released by Gonzo Multimedia with the title The Beatles and World War II.