Watch d-day 80: we were there 123Movies. Eighty years on, the BBC has been gathering first-hand accounts from the UK's D-Day veterans – some now more than 100 years of age. Rachel Burden traces their stories in Normandy and hears memories of the massive beach invasion and the battles that led to the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of the Second World War in Europe.
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Behind the scenes look at the D-Day special effects created in filming The Americanization of Emily (1964).
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James Holland moves beyond the D-Day beaches to reassess the brutal 77-day Battle for Normandy that followed the invasion. Challenging some of the...
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Compiled from the Imperial War Museum Official Collection, this film collects rare and previously unseen film material shot by official cameramen on...
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How did Nazi Germany, from limited natural resources, mass unemployment, little money and a damaged industry, manage to unfurl the cataclysm of World...
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George Stevens's remarkable film is acclaimed by historians as the most important colour footage taken during the war. Milestones covered include the...
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On the 29th September 1945, the incomplete rough cut of a brilliant documentary about concentration camps was viewed at the MOI in London. For five...
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Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
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This documentary is a captivating account of the defense of Wake Island by a small contingent of United States Marines and civilian contractors. From...
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French film and WWII historian Sylvie Lindeperg analyzes Alain Resnais's seminal 1956 film, "Night and Fog", and attempts to place it in the context...
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Return to Guam is a 1944 short propaganda film produced by the US Navy about the taking and recapture of the island of Guam. The film starts when a...