The True Glory (1945)

6.5/10 87 min Documentary War

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.

Cast

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

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