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Winner of the 1945 Academy Award for Best Documentary, The True Glory (co-directed by Carol Reed and Garson Kanin) was produced by the Allied military during 1944-45 as a permanent visual record of the campaign in Europe. Covering every major engagement from D-Day to the fall of Berlin, this auspicious production (widely regarded as one of the greatest war documentaries ever made) features an introduction by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who approved the film prior to its release. This special 2-disc collector's edition also includes the original alternative ending to The True Glory (covering the progress of the war up to VJ Day) as well as four full-length British wartime documentaries produced for the Ministry of Information.
Original Release
08/27/1945
US Release
10/04/1945
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Self - Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force |
| Leslie Banks | Commentator / Self - Commentator |
| Winston Churchill | Self |
| Charles de Gaulle | Self |
| Hermann Göring | Self |
| Robert Harris | Self - Commentator / Commentator |
| Sam Levene | Self - Commentator / Commentator |
| Bernard L. Montgomery | Self |
| Alan Morehead | Self - Commentator |
| George S. Patton | Self |
Directors
Writers
Peter Ustinov, Harry Brown, Paddy Chayefsky, Frank Harvey, Gerald Kersh, Saul Levitt, Arthur Macrae, Eric Maschwitz, Jenny Nicholson, Guy Trosper
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Self - Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force |
| Leslie Banks | Commentator / Self - Commentator |
| Winston Churchill | Self |
| Charles de Gaulle | Self |
| Hermann Göring | Self |
| Robert Harris | Self - Commentator / Commentator |
| Sam Levene | Self - Commentator / Commentator |
| Bernard L. Montgomery | Self |
| Alan Morehead | Self - Commentator |
| George S. Patton | Self |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Self |
| Iosif Stalin | Self |
| Richard Attenborough | Self - Commentator |
| Paddy Chayefsky | Commentator |
| Richard Fallon | Self |
| Joseph Goebbels | Self |
| Adolf Hitler | Self |
| Erwin Rommel | Self |
| Peter Ustinov | Self / Commentator |
Editors
Garson Kanin, Carol Reed, Frank Clarke, Robert Verrell, Jerome Corwin, Bob Clarke, Robert Carrick
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 1946 | Oscar | Best Documentary, Features | Won |
