The True Glory

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

Leslie Banks

as Commentator

Robert Harris

Robert Harris

as Commentator

Sam Levene

Sam Levene

as Commentator

Peter Ustinov

Peter Ustinov

as Commentator

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

as Self

George S. Patton

George S. Patton

as Self (archive footage)

Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough

as Commentator

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

as Self

Reviews

CinemaSerf

This is probably the earliest example of what you could call a “complete” documentary depicting the end of World War II. Starting with the planning for and then the implementation of the D-Day landings, and using hundreds of different pictorial sources, this takes us on a fairly comprehensive and of...

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