Desert Victory (1943)

Desert Victory

1943

War Documentary

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

David MacDonald

Roy Boulting

Cast

Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage)

Alan Brooke as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Alan Cunningham as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Bernard L. Montgomery as Self (archive footage)

Claude Auchinleck as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Erwin Rommel as Self (archive footage)

Harold Alexander as Self (archive footage)