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Desert Victory (1943)

Desert Victory (1943)

War Documentary

The most terrifying scenes ever taken under fire!

Release Date: 1943, April 12
Directors: Roy Boulting, David MacDonald
Countries: United Kingdom, United States of America
Production: The Army Film & Photographic Unit, Royal Air Force Film Production Unit, British Army Film Unit, Army Film Unit
Cast: Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Joseph Goebbels, Alan Cunningham, Erwin Rommel, Bernard L. Montgomery, Harold Alexander, Claude Auchinleck, Alan Brooke, Henry Harwood, Arthur Tedder, Wilhelm von Thoma

Overview:

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.