Documentary - 55 mins
Audience - General
Classification - Exempt
Region - 0
Format - PAL
Language - English

Product weight 120g

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The Original Wartime Newsreels shown in Cinemas Throughout the World

Witness momentous World War Two events! We've delved into the archives of the famous Imperial War Museum in London to bring you the story of the conquest of Europe as it was actually reported in the cinemas of the day.

Filmed by frontline cameramen, many of whom became casualties themselves, these newsreels are a fascinating record of how World War Two was fought, and of how the war was being depicted on the home front. The celebrations in newly freed France contrasts starkly with the grim events of autumn and winter 1944-45, as the German Reich convulses in its final death throws. The invasion forces can now be counted in their millions, closing in from Russia in the east, Italy and France in the south and from Belgium and Holland in the west.

Here's what you will see:
The British advance through Belgium
US 3rd Army's advance to the Moselle
The miraculous PLUTO fuel line
US 1st Army's assault on Aachen
The "Anvil" landings in the South of France
Airborne assaults at Graves, Nijmegen and Arnhem
Churchill in Paris and De Gaulle in Moscow
The Russians crossing into Poland
The hideous first discovery of the concentration camps
The Warsaw uprising
War in Italy and the Balkans
The work of the Italian Partisans
The panicked preparations for German civil defence
The Battle Of The Bulge
The first plans for peace at Yalta.

From the Back Cover

Scene Selection

Operation Pluto
The Scheldt Estuary is Cleared
The Advance of the Red Army
Hungary Under Fire
The German Counter-Attack
 

Special Features

Scene Selections
Interactive Menus
Slide Show
Previews

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