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Desert Victory

  • 19431943
  • 1h 2m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
324
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Desert Victory (1943)
  • Documentary
  • War
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 a re-enactment.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 a re-enactment.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 a re-enactment.
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
324
YOUR RATING
  • Directors
    • Roy Boulting(uncredited)
    • David MacDonald(uncredited)
  • Writer
    • J.L. Hodson
  • Stars
    • Harold Alexander(archive footage)
    • Winston Churchill(archive footage)
    • Adolf Hitler(archive footage)
Top credits
  • Directors
    • Roy Boulting(uncredited)
    • David MacDonald(uncredited)
  • Writer
    • J.L. Hodson
  • Stars
    • Harold Alexander(archive footage)
    • Winston Churchill(archive footage)
    • Adolf Hitler(archive footage)
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    • 11User reviews
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    • Won 1 Oscar
      • 2 wins total

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    Harold Alexander
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (as General Alexander)
    Winston Churchill
    Winston Churchill
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (as Mr. Churchill)
    Adolf Hitler
    Adolf Hitler
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (as Hitler)
    Bernard L. Montgomery
    Bernard L. Montgomery
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (as General Montgomery)
    Erwin Rommel
    Erwin Rommel
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (as Rommel)
    Claude Auchinleck
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Alan Brooke
    • Self - with Churchill and Montgomery
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Alan Cunningham
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Joseph Goebbels
    Joseph Goebbels
    • Self - Shaking Hands with Rommel
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Henry Harwood
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    J.L. Hodson
    • Narrator
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Arthur Tedder
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Wilhelm von Thoma
    • Self - Commander: Afrika Korps
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    • Directors
      • Roy Boulting(uncredited)
      • David MacDonald(uncredited)
    • Writer
      • J.L. Hodson
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    • Trivia
      If many of the scenes look familiar, it's probably because footage from this film was used in many other World War II films, both fictional and documentary.
    • Quotes

      Narrator: The Eighth Army has the longest lines of supply that the history of war has ever known.

    • Crazy credits
      "For the desert rats... the men of the Eighth Army... who on 23rd. October 1942, left the holes they had scratched for themselves in the rock and sand of the desert, and moved forward to destroy the myth of Rommel's invincibility... and to complete the liberation of the second Roman Empire overseas."
    • Connections
      Featured in Five Came Back: Combat Zones (2017)

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    7/10
    The Turning Point
    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.
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    • Release date
      • April 13, 1943 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Languages
      • English
      • German
    • Also known as
      • The Battle of Egypt
    • Filming locations
      • Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • Royal Air Force Film Production Unit
      • The Army Film & Photographic Unit
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 2 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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