Released in 1945, when it won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, The True Glory was a co-production of the US Office of War Information and the British Ministry of Information. Directed by Carol Reed assisted by Garson Kanin, the film documents the victory on the Western Front, from D-Day at Normandy to the surrender of the Third Reich and V-E Day. The film features an introduction by Supreme Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower, combat footage filmed by military photographers, and the voices of the men who were there.

Opening: General of the United States Army, General Eisenhower speaks (:09). Titles: The Governments of Great Britain & The United States present The True Glory (1:57). Adolf Hitler & the Nazi party (2:49). Map shows coast of Europe including Atlantic Wall or West Wall fortications (3:30). American workers build war materials (4:15). Ships in the North Atlantic Sea; Battle of the Atlantic against German U-Boats (4:48). Ship explodes after a torpedo hits; survivors in life vests (5:21). War map manned by women (5:39). American soldiers (5:56). G.I.s in Liverpool, England in preparations for D-Day (6:20). Women and men of the U.S. forces in England (6:58). American troops train (7:46). Troops in a raft, struggle to get on the land, some fall into the raging waters (8:22). American officers sit and plan (9:38). Bombers in the sky (10:13). numerous boats, planning, getting photography equipment ready (10:30). Plane shoots at a boat; petrol line; underwater pipelines; tanks (11:03). President Roosevelt (11:30). Advisors meet; plan an attack (11:54). Allied airmen attack German targets (12:20). Map of England (13:03). Germans ready on the beaches of France (13:18). Trucks and ships for the Allies are ready to go (13:50). Soldiers board huge ships (14:40). Men onboard the Allied ships sit and wait…and wait for the D-Day invasion to begin (15:00). Final briefing before the attack on the beach (15:35). Men on the ship prepare for the attack (16:48). General Eisenhower meets the troops (17:28). Allied planes in the air and ships at sea (18:00). American paratroopers jump (18:26). Ships head toward the coast (18:37). Boats head for Normandy (19:30). June 6, 1944 – the Invasion of Normandy Beach has begun (19:52). Allied troops load into amphibious crafts (20:54). Numerous amphibious craft head for the shores of Normandy (21:18). Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandy as Germans shoot at them (21:37). Big Ben in England (22:03). Invasion is reported by newspapers (22:20). Troops continue to exit craft and advance through the water towards Normandy (22:40). Tired and wounded Allies; some dead Americans (22:52). Medics work on the wounded (23:13). U.S. soldiers; a downed airplane on fire (23:45). Allies fight the Germans on the beach (24:16). British troops (24:58). Dogfights in the skies over Germany (25:30). American troops on Utah Beach (26:20). The Battle of Caen (6 June-6 August 1944), a battle of World War II between the British Commonwealth and Nazi Germany during the Normandy campaign (26:45). Medics work on the wounded (27:44). Tired troops, trucks, rough seas (29:02). Allies move onward (30:01). Allies get fruit from the locals (31:06). Allies take Cherbourg (31:30). French troops and a stockpile of rifles (32:02). Dead Germans (32:39). Artillery is fired by the Allies (33:25). Map of Caen (33:40). Allies in the air, troops on the move (34:25). Bombs explode on the German countryside below (34:50). Allies move forward and get fired on (35:00). Tanks and troops as Polish forces join the Allies (35:40). Map shows how Allies are advancing on the Nazis (36:34).

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