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The True Glory is a British film of genre War directed by Carol Reed released in USA on 4 october 1945 with Leslie Banks

The True Glory (1945)

The True Glory
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Released in USA 4 october 1945
Length 1h27
Directed by ,    
Genres War,    Documentary
Rating69% 3.482613.482613.482613.482613.48261

The True Glory (1945) is a co-production of the US Office of War Information and the British Ministry of Information, documenting the victory on the Western Front, from Normandy to the collapse of the Third Reich.

Although many individuals, including screenwriter and director Garson Kanin, contributed to the film, British director Carol Reed is normally credited as the director. The film was promoted with the tagline, "The story of your victory...told by the guys who won it!" The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

The documentary film is notable for using multiple first-person perspectives as narrative voices, somewhat in the manner of Tunisian Victory (1944). However, in The True Glory, instead of just an American G.I. and a British Tommy, the voices include a Canadian, a French resister, a Parisian civilian family, an African-American tank gunner, and several female perspectives including a nurse, and clerical staff. The film is introduced by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe, and many other prominent individuals appear in it including General George S. Patton.

The title is taken from a letter of Sir Francis Drake, which is quoted in a final caption: "There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the True Glory."

Synopsis

Un récit documentaire de l'invasion alliée de l'Europe pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale compilé à partir des images tournées par près de 1400 caméramans.

Actors

Leslie Banks

(Commentator)Peter Ustinov

(Commentator)Sam Levene

(Commentator)Richard Attenborough

(Commentator)
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