Overview:
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.| Status: | Released (1945-08-27) |
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| Awards: | Won 1 Oscar. 5 wins total |
| Screen: | Harry Brown, Paddy Chayefsky, Frank Harvey |
| Productions: | U.S. Office of War Information, Ministry of Information |
| Production Countries: | United Kingdom, United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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This 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 sources, this takes us on a fairly comp ....
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