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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.
Allied troops advance into France (:08). Dead German soldiers on the streets as Allied forces round up German prisoners (1:03). Civilians (1:24). French people wave at the Allies (1:59). Happy French civilians (2:30). Mortain, France on a map (3:10). Troops in Mortain (3:24). Wounded Americans (3:52). Allied air support (4:10). British RAF get ready and get into the air (4:25). Allies walk through the rubble of buildings (5:06). Germans plan (5:30). Allies lay in wait (6:08). Bombers drop their payload which explodes on the ground (6:40). Planes target the ground (7:10). Wreckage on the ground (7:39). German POWS, some soldiers are very young looking (8:10). Map shows Paris (9:45). Americans plan (10:03). French civilians wave at the Allied troops (10:25). French soldiers are given the honor to move into Paris (11:10). The Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile, one of the most famous monuments in Paris (11:59). Battle in the streets of Paris (12:25). Free French Army arrives (13:00). Brussels is liberated (14:07). American troops cross Siegfried Line and enter Germany (14:57). Canadian troops (15:34). A woman in the USO dances for the Allied troops (16:10). American tanks run out of gas (16:37). Allies run low on ammo (16:59). German ports are destroyed (17:37). Supplies are being brought in slowly and the progression of troops moving into German stalled for a bit (18:15). Map shows progression of Allies (18:51). British paratroopers prepare (19:37). Paratroopers fill the sky (20:18). The Battle of Arnhem was a major battle, fought in and around the Dutch towns of Arnhem, Oosterbeek, Wolfheze and Driel and the surrounding countryside from September 17–26, 1944 (21:07). Allied casualties (21:39). Candians, Polish troops (22:45). Antwerp Harbor (23:24). Nighttime assault (24:10). Allied troops get off a truck (24:20). Troops get a hot meal, chance to take a hot shower, write home, wand watch a movie (24:55). Allied troops in the snow (25:35). Women in an office keep warm; Allied troops in the snow (26:34). German offensive in the Ardennes (27:17). The Siege of Bastogne, December 20-27, 1944, with besieged American forces were relieved by elements of General George Patton’s Third Army (29:08). Allies in the snow (29:29). December 24, 1944, Allies receive air support in the snow (30:00). Allies fire artillery (30:35). Allies move forward (30:59). Allies attack the Germans; some Germans surrender; explosions after bombs dropped from the planes (31:51). Germans rounded up (33:05). Cologne Cathedral (33:55). Boats moved across Belgium by road/trucks (34:23). U.S. Air Force flies bombers (34:50). March 1945: The Battle of Remagen during the Allied invasion of Germany resulted in the unexpected capture of the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine (35:13). Troops board amphibious craft (36:15). Allied paratroopers in the sky (36:58). German POWs (37:46). Allied POWs being freed (38:04). FDR dies (38:29). Enslaved Jews and forced laborers are freed (38:50). Belsen concentration camp liberated; numerous dead bodies (39:14). Concentration camp survivors; some grab at food (39:59). Americans meet Russians and celebrate that the end is near (41:50). German troops surrender (42:36). Tank drives by a fire (43:34). Nighttime artillery (44:00). May 9, 1945, 12:01am, guns stopped, Germany surrenders (44:15). German higher ups surrender (45:16). Dead in the streets (45:40). American troops embark for home aboard ships (46:23).
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