Desert Victory
- User Rating
- 6.3
- Running Time
- 60
- Tagline
- The most terrifying scenes ever taken under fire!
- Original Title
- Desert Victory
- Release Date
- 1943-04-12 00:00:00
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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.
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Adolf Hitler
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Erwin Rommel
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Claude Auchinleck
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Alan Brooke
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Alan Cunningham
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Joseph Goebbels
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Henry Harwood
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J.L. Hodson
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Arthur Tedder
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Wilhelm von Thoma
