The True Glory

1h 27m
DocumentaryWar
6.3

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.

Cast

Leslie Banks
Commentator
Robert Harris
Commentator
Sam Levene
Commentator
Peter Ustinov
Commentator
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self
George S. Patton
Self (archive footage)
Richard Attenborough
Commentator
Winston Churchill
Self

Crew

Garson Kanin
Director
Carol Reed
Director
Paddy Chayefsky
Writer
William Alwyn
Music

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