The Battle of France

1h 26m
DocumentaryWarDramaHistory
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A montage of newscasts tracing the events of the "damned war" and the German invasion of 1940.

Cast

Eduard Benes
Self
Georges Bonnet
Self
Neville Chamberlain
Self (archive footage)
Winston Churchill
Self
Galeazzo Ciano
Self (archive footage)
Édouard Daladier
Self
1st Earl of Halifax Edward Wood
Self
Maurice Gamelin
Self (archive footage)
Hermann Göring
Self (archive footage)
Franz Halder
Self
Konrad Henlein
Self (archive footage)
Heinrich Himmler
Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Alfred Jodl
Self
Wilhelm Keitel
Self (archive footage)
Vyacheslav Molotov
Self
Benito Mussolini
Self (archive footage)
Paul Reynaud
Self
Paul Henri Spaak
Self
Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage)
Werner von Blomberg
Self
Walther von Brauchitsch
Self
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Self (archive footage)

Crew

Jean Aurel
Director
Jacques Laurent
Writer

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