Desert Victory

Desert Victory

The most terrifying scenes ever taken under fire!

1943 · 60 min · ★ 6.3 · War, Documentary

A featureless land fit only for war, as the narrator, J. L. Hodson stated in the early scenes: "If war was to be fought then let it begin here". In endless miles of rock-strewn scrub desert, where civilians hardly existed. Desert Victory tells the story of 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 some re-enactment. Won "Best Documentary Feature" at the 16th Academy Awards in 1944.

Directed by David MacDonald · Written by J.L. Hodson

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Harold Alexander Self (archive footage)
Winston Churchill Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler Self (archive footage)
Bernard L. Montgomery Self (archive footage)
Erwin Rommel Self (archive footage)
Claude Auchinleck Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alan Brooke Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alan Cunningham Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joseph Goebbels Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Henry Harwood Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
J.L. Hodson Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Arthur Tedder Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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