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A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen. It opens as the assembled allied forces plan and train for the D-Day invasion at bases in Great Britain and covers all the major events of the war in Europe from the Normandy landings to the fall of Berlin.
“The story of YOUR victory... told by YOUR guys who won it!”
Top Cast
Leslie Banks
Commentator
Robert Harris
Commentator
Sam Levene
Commentator
Peter Ustinov
Commentator
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self
George S. Patton
Self (archive footage)
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Rating
6.5/ 10
Release Date
1945-08-27
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
DocumentaryWar
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CinemaSerf
7/10
•7/23/2025This is probably the earliest example of what you could call a “complete” documentary depicting the end of World War II. Starting with the planning for and then the implementation of the D-Day landings, and using hundreds of different pictorial sourc...