Desert Victory

Here's a documentary about the lead-up to and battle of El Alamein, the turning point of the war from Britain's viewpoint. Like most of the best of British propaganda films of the Second World War, it offers a matter-of-fact attitude towards the events, explaining the strategy that Alexander and Montgomery planned, and the turning into a very noisy series of clips, interspersed with maps showing the movements of the British salients and German countermoves. It feels like it could have been briefer, but they wanted it to come in a touch over an hour to give it feature status.

I begins with a series of title cards, explaining that four British cameramen were killed making this movie, seven wounded, and six captured by the Germans.... and that movies of Rommel were captured by the British army's advance.