........." a continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished."

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This is our people's story, in their words.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leslie Banks

Winston Churchill

Harry Brown

Paddy Chayefsky

Frank Harvey

A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen.

Garson Kanin

Carol Reed

The True Glory

Of Historical Interest Only

&quot;The True Glory&quot; was a feature-length documentary, jointly produced by the US Office of War Information and the British Ministry of Information, telling the story of the war on the Western Front, from the D-Day invasion of Normandy up to VE Day. The film was directed by Carol Reed and uses newsreel footage of the actual fighting, with commentary by multiple first-person narrators, including participants in the fighting, and an introduction by no less a personage than General Eisenhower himself. It was advertised with the slogan, &quot;The story of your victory...told by the guys who won it!&quot;

Although the war in the West may have been over when the film was made, some time in mid-1945, it can still be regarded as wartime propaganda; we are reminded that the war in the Far East was still continuing, and one of the film&apos;s messages was clearly &quot;we&apos;ve beaten Germany, now it&apos;s Japan&apos;s turn!&quot; Another message can be summed up as &quot;And the Krauts had it coming to them!&quot; The view of Germany presented here is equally propagandistic; the Germans are portrayed not just as cruel and sadistic but also arrogant and full of a self-confidence which was eventually to prove unjustified.

This is very much a film of its time; although the emphasis is on the Western front, the Soviets are still &quot;our gallant allies&quot;, and Stalin is even described as one of the &quot;architects of freedom&quot;, along with Churchill and Roosevelt. These views would start to look outdated only a few years later, when peace had turned to cold war. Today the film is really of historical interest only. If you want to know the story of the Western Front in the years 1944/5, eighty years of historical research and analysis means that we have today documentaries that are far more detailed, informative and objective and less propagandistic and smugly self-congratulatory. 6/10.

Imperial War Museum: The True Glory

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"The True Glory" was a feature-length documentary, jointly produced by the US Office of War Information and the British Ministry of Information, telling the story of the war on the Western Front, from the D-Day invasion of Normandy up to VE Day. The film was directed by Carol Reed and uses newsreel footage of the actual fighting, with commentary by multiple first-person narrators, including participants in the fighting, and an introduction by no less a personage than General Eisenhower himself. It was advertised with the slogan, "The story of your victory...told by the guys who won it!"

Although the war in the West may have been over when the film was made, some time in mid-1945, it can still be regarded as wartime propaganda; we are reminded that the war in the Far East was still continuing, and one of the film's messages was clearly "we've beaten Germany, now it's Japan's turn!" Another message can be summed up as "And the Krauts had it coming to them!" The view of Germany presented here is equally propagandistic; the Germans are portrayed not just as cruel and sadistic but also arrogant and full of a self-confidence which was eventually to prove unjustified.

This is very much a film of its time; although the emphasis is on the Western front, the Soviets are still "our gallant allies", and Stalin is even described as one of the "architects of freedom", along with Churchill and Roosevelt. These views would start to look outdated only a few years later, when peace had turned to cold war. Today the film is really of historical interest only. If you want to know the story of the Western Front in the years 1944/5, eighty years of historical research and analysis means that we have today documentaries that are far more detailed, informative and objective and less propagandistic and smugly self-congratulatory. 6/10.

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