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Leslie Banks
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Robert Harris
Commentator
Sam Levene
Commentator
Peter Ustinov
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self
George S. Patton
Self (archive footage)
Richard Attenborough
Commentator
Winston Churchill
Self
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Written by CinemaSerf on Wed Jul 23 2025
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 comprehensive and often quite harrowing journey from the beaches of Normandy to the streets of Berlin. It’s introduced by Gen. Eisenhower and he occasionally contributes to the soundtrack, but for the most part this is narrated by the ordinary soldiers, sailors, fliers and civilians whose lives were affected by this hug...
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Keywords
- world war ii
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- d-day