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Desert Victory

DirectorsDavid MacDonald, Roy Boulting

“The most terrifying scenes ever taken under fire!”

6.0 / 10

1943

60 min

WarDocumentary

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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Cast

Harold Alexander

Self (archive footage)

Winston Churchill

Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

Bernard L. Montgomery

Self (archive footage)