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Desert Victory
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Desert Victory is a 1943 British-American war and documentary film directed by David MacDonald and Roy Boulting. The production involves the United States Office of War Information, The Army Film & Photographic Unit, Royal Air Force Film Production Unit, British Army Film Unit, and Army Film Unit. The cast includes Bernard Montgomery, and the music was composed by William Alwyn. The film is presented in black-and-white and runs for approximately 60 to 62 minutes.
The movie focuses on World War II and is available in English. It has been distributed by Netflix and FlixFling via video on demand. The film received an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film and was nominated for the same award. It holds an IMDb rating of 6.3 based on 405 votes and a TMDb vote average of 6.273. The work is recognized in the Academy Award Best Documentary collection.
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6.3A 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
- Harold Alexander as Self (archive footage)
- Winston Churchill as Self (archive footage)
- Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage)
- Bernard L. Montgomery as Self (archive footage)
- Erwin Rommel as Self (archive footage)
- Claude Auchinleck as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Ratings
IMDb
6.3/10
405 votes
- Year
- 1943
- Runtime
- 62 min
- Genres
- Documentary, War
- Awards
- Won 1 Oscar. 3 wins total
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- propaganda film
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- World War II
- Director
- Roy Boulting
- Cast member
- Bernard Montgomery
- Composer
- William Alwyn
- Production company
- United States Office of War Information
- Duration
- 62
- FilmAffinity ID
- 701091
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1943-01-01
- title
- Desert Victory
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
- color
- black-and-white
- distributed by
- Netflix
- Commons category
- Desert Victory
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