Desert Victory

Desert Victory

Desert Victory

April 1943

60 mins

TMDB

6.0

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.

Cast

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Harold Alexander

Self (archive footage)

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Winston Churchill

Self (archive footage)

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Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

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Bernard L. Montgomery

Self (archive footage)

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Erwin Rommel

Self (archive footage)

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Claude Auchinleck

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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Alan Brooke

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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Alan Cunningham

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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Joseph Goebbels

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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Henry Harwood

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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