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| Directed by | Roy Boulting |
| Produced by | David MacDonald |
| Written by | James Lansdale Hodson |
Production companies | Army Film and Photographic Unit Royal Air Force Film Production Unit |
| Distributed by | Ministry of Information (United Kingdom) 20th Century Fox (United States) |
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Running time | 60 mins |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Desert Victory is a 1943 film produced by the British Ministry of Information, documenting the Allies' North African campaign against Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and the Afrika Korps. This documentary traces the struggle between General Erwin Rommel and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, from the German's defeat at El Alamein to Tripoli. The film was produced by David MacDonald and directed by Roy Boulting who also directed Tunisian Victory and Burma Victory. Like the famous "Why We Fight" series of films by Frank Capra, Desert Victory relies heavily on captured German newsreel footage. Many of the most famous sequences in the film have been excerpted and appear with frequency in History Channel and A&E productions. The film won a special Oscar in 1943 and the 1951 film The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel took sections of the film for its battle footage.
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See also
- List of Allied Propaganda Films of World War 2
References
- ^ Reeves, Nicholas (2004) [1999]. Power of Film Propaganda. A & C Black. p. 173. ISBN 0826473903.
External links
- Desert Victory at IMDb
- Desert Victory is available for free download at the Internet Archive