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Synopsis
Combat footage and personal accounts trace the Western Allied advance from Normandy to Germany's defeat. The campaign appears through the many people whose work made it possible. The documentary assembles individual experiences into an official account of the war's final phase.
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Historical context
The US Office of War Information and Britain's Ministry of Information jointly produced the film, directed by Garson Kanin and Carol Reed. Its governmental origin matters when assessing how the victory is selected, narrated and remembered.
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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.
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Availability checked on September 10, 2026.
Photograph credit
Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower — White House · Public domain
- George S. Patton — Robert F. Cranston / Harry Warnecke · CC0
- Sam Levene — film screenshot (Universal Pictures) · Public domain
- Peter Ustinov — Allan Warren · CC BY-SA 3.0
