The True Glory (1945)
The story of YOUR victory... told by YOUR guys who won it!
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.
- Date of release
- 1945-08-27
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (19)
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Genres
- Documentary, War
- Director
- Garson Kanin, Carol Reed
Casting
- Leslie Banks — Commentator
- Robert Harris — Commentator
- Sam Levene — Commentator
- Peter Ustinov — Commentator
- Dwight D. Eisenhower — Self
- George S. Patton — Self (archive footage)
- Richard Attenborough — Commentator
- Winston Churchill — Self
Interesting facts
- Awards: 3 · Nominations: 1. Including: Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film; National Board of Review: Top Ten Films; National Board of Review Award for Best Film
The True Glory (1945) is a co-production of the US Office of War Information and the British Ministry of Information, documenting the victory on the Western Front, from Normandy to the collapse of the Third Reich.
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