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"Desert Victory"
1943
Directed by Roy Boulting
This historic
documentary offers a dramatic account of the Allied Forces' victory over
Rommel's troops in North Africa. Directed by British filmmaking veteran
Roy Boulting, with footage taken by members of the Army Film and
Photographic Unit as well as captured German film, this much honored film
is a remarkable document of one of the turning points of World War II. The
filming was done under the most severe battle conditions--four cameramen
were killed, six were wounded and seven were captured. The esteemed artist
and critic Manny Farber called Desert Victory "…that rare
thing, a perfect movie." The film won the Academy Award for Best
Documentary Feature of 1943. Also included is Cameramen at War
(1943), a 15-minute celebration of the achievements of battlefield
photographers, compiled by pioneering animator Len Lye. Footage taken from
Dunkirk to Ethiopia is combined with glimpses of the cameramen who risked
life and limb to capture these images of war. 62 minutes.

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