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Desert Victory

Release Date:April 13, 1943

Running Time:60 min

Genres:Documentary, War

Directors

Cast

Harold Alexander Winston Churchill Adolf Hitler Bernard L. Montgomery Erwin Rommel Claude Auchinleck Alan Brooke Alan Cunningham Joseph Goebbels Henry Harwood J.L. Hodson Arthur Tedder

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

A featureless land fit only for war, as the narrator, J. L. Hodson stated in the early scenes: "If war was to be fought then let it begin here". In endless miles of rock-strewn scrub desert, where civilians hardly existed. Desert Victory tells the story of the Allied campaign to drive Germany and Italy from North Africa is analysed, with the major portion of the film examining the battles at El Alamein, including some re-enactment. Won "Best Documentary Feature" at the 16th Academy Awards in 1944.

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