The True Glory

6.2

Genre: Documentary War
Run time: 87 min
Premiere: 1945. August 27.

Director: Garson Kanin Carol Reed
Writer: Paddy Chayefsky
Starring: Leslie Banks Robert Harris Sam Levene Peter Ustinov

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.