A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen.A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen.A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 4 wins total
Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Self - Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force
- (as General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Winston Churchill
- Self
- (archive footage)
Charles de Gaulle
- Self
- (archive footage)
Hermann Göring
- Self
- (archive footage)
Sam Levene
- Self - Commentator
- (voice)
Bernard L. Montgomery
- Self
- (archive footage)
George S. Patton
- Self
- (archive footage)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Self
- (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (as Iosif Stalin)
Richard Attenborough
- Self - Commentator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Paddy Chayefsky
- Commentator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Richard Fallon
- Self
- (uncredited)
Joseph Goebbels
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Adolf Hitler
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Erwin Rommel
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Garson Kanin(uncredited)
- Carol Reed(uncredited)
- Writers
- Harry Brown(uncredited)
- Paddy Chayefsky(uncredited)
- Frank Harvey(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaAccording to director Capt. Garson Kanin, when the movie won the 1945 Academy Award as Best Documentary Feature, the Oscar went to uncredited producer Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
- Quotes
Commentator: This is our people's story, in their words.
- ConnectionsEdited into Dai-ni-ji sekai taisen (1954)
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Film And War Are Collaborative Media
The British Ministry of Information and the U. S. Office of War Information produced this film of the Second World War from June 6, 1944 through the surrender of Germany on May 10, 1945.
There aren't many official credits on this winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The two uncredited directors are Garson Kanin and Carol Reed; Kanin claimed that as the uncredited producer, Dwight D. Eisenhower was the Oscar winner. Surely the estimated seven editors, the ten writers (including Joe Brown, Paddy Chayesfksy, and Peter Ustinov), performers who spoke the commentary and the purported memories, including Leslie Banks, Sam Levene, and Richard Attenborough, the war footage shot by, among other people, Russ Meyer, and the millions of Allied troops deserve praise.
There aren't many official credits on this winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The two uncredited directors are Garson Kanin and Carol Reed; Kanin claimed that as the uncredited producer, Dwight D. Eisenhower was the Oscar winner. Surely the estimated seven editors, the ten writers (including Joe Brown, Paddy Chayesfksy, and Peter Ustinov), performers who spoke the commentary and the purported memories, including Leslie Banks, Sam Levene, and Richard Attenborough, the war footage shot by, among other people, Russ Meyer, and the millions of Allied troops deserve praise.
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- Sep 21, 2023
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- Den stora invasionen
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- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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