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This part in a documentary series of Hitler's career chronicles the largest amphibious invasion in history. Decisions, losses, battles and strategies come alive with footage and interviews with soldiers, commanders and civilians. The program traces the development of D-Day from the initial plans to the final breakthrough and follows the strategies of Eisenhower, Montgomery, Marshall and Bradley and the counter-attacks and defences of their German opponents. Archive footage, color illustrations, commentaires.

Director : Robert Lihani

Production Year : 1994

Duration : 50

Language : English

For a Lost Soldier

A feature film. A young Dutch boy meets a Canadian soldier during the final months leading up to the liberation of the Netherlands from Nazi occupation during World War II. The bond evolves between the two, that leads into a sexual relationship. Film based upon the autobiographical novel of the same title by ballet dancer and choreographer Rudi van Dantzig

Director : Roeland Kerbosch

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 92

Language : Dutch

D-Day In Colour - The Overlord Experience

In this episode of D-Day in Color, veterans reflect on the experience of the Invasion and establishment of Allied forces in Normandy, France, during Operation Overlord in WW2. Their intimate first-hand accounts explore those decisive yet perilous days that proved crucial to the outcome of the Second World War. Their recollections are intertwined with vivid color archival film footages that illustrate the reality of battle, the complexity of human emotions and the sacrifices that were made in the fateful summer of 1944. Narration by British actor John Hurt.

Production Year : 2004

Language : English

Witnesses to Victory

The climactic last moments of the Second World War, evoked through interviews and the diaries and letters of ten people caught up in the liberation of Europe from the grip of Nazi terror.

Language : English

A Good Man In Hell - General Romeo Dallaire And The Rwanda Genocide

Interview that the journalist Ted Koppel arranged in 2002 with Romeo Dallaire, a Canadian General who served as commander of the UN forces in Rwanda during the genocide in 1994.

Director : Jerry Fowter

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 13

Language : English

Rudolf Hess - The Man Who Died Twice

This documentary tells of the Italian campaign, its strategic errors and political conflicts that turned the campaign into a quagmire. Archive footage, interviews with veterans, commentary from historian Carlo D'Este, author of Bitter Victory - The Battle for Sicily.

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 95

Language : English

D-Day: The Total Story - The Breakout

This part in a documentary series of Hitler's career concentrates on the Nazi military strategy during World War II as well as on the genocidal atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis.

Director : Robert Lihani

Production Year : 1994

Duration : 50

Language : English

D-Day: The Total Story, H - Hour

This part in a documentary series of Hitler's career concentrates on the Nazi military strategy during World War II as well as on the genocidal atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis.

Director : Robert Lihani

Production Year : 1994

Duration : 50

Language : English

June 6th 1944, A Day that Shook the World

This short film part of the BBC series Century, which tell of critical days on the history of the 20th century, deals with June 6, 1944 Allied invasion to Normandy, In several days the Allies secured all beaches. Newsreels and explanatory narration. written by Gordon Carr, narrated by John Humphrys

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 2

Language : English