ULTIMATE WWII COLLECTOR'S SET (DVD MOVIE)

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Throughout WWII and the years following a large number of documentaries and propaganda films were produced on virtually every aspect of the Second World War. This 10 DVD collector's set contains 30 documentary features ranging from Academy Award winning films directed by Hollywood legends Frank Capra and John Huston to films containing actual war-time footage depicting images and experiences no production company could replicate. With over 26 hours of content and with narration provided by Dwight D. Eisenhower, Paul Newman, Burgess Merdith and Clark Gable, WWII: The Ultimate Collection examines how the public memory of war in the twentieth century has often been created more by a manufactured past than a remembered one.

Disc 1: Side A

THE TRUE GLORY 1945, B & W, 84 min NR

Academy Award winning documentary assembled from actual footage of the WWII allied invasion of Europe, captured by thousands of different camera operators. StartingWith D-Day, the documentary covers the major battles all the way to the fall of Berlin, with narration provided by General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Disc 1: Side B

KNOW YOUR ENEMY: JAPAN-1944, B & W, 63 min, NR

Director Frank Capra (It's A Wonderful Life) created this film for the U.S. government during World War II. Narrated by George Marshall, viewers are introduced to the Japanese, one of America's enemies during the war.

TARGET FOR TONIGHT-1941-B & W, 50 MIN. NR

First-rate wartime documentary drama from the prolific writer-director Harry Wyatt that details the experiences of a single Royal Air Force Bomber and its courageous crew.

Disc 2: Side A

December 7th 1944, B &W, 34 min NR

Documentary about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 directed by the legendary John Ford. This Academy Award winning docudrama depicts the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the U.S. efforts to beat back the Japanese enforcements.

CAMPAIGN IN EUROPE (A.K.A. FELZUG IN POLEN) 1939, B & W, 34 min, NR

This film presents the German account of the Polish Campaign of l939, from the fierce fighting in Danzig, to the struggles along the Vistula, Warta and Bug rivers, to the Siege of Warsaw. Viewers can get an instructive understanding of how devastating the German advance was on the Polish forces.

DISC 2: Side B

DROPZONE NORMANDY-1945, B & W, 75 min NR

A detailed account of combined glider operations on D-Day (June 6th, 1944) from preparation to final outcome. This Army Air Force film consists of actual invasion footage, with a brief analysis of the failures and successes of this operation.

D-Day-l944, B&W, 28 min NR

This documentary examines in the preparations for the Normandy invasion. Narrated by Paul Newman, this film takes an in-depth look at the 84th Infantry Division light in Belgium.

Disc3: Side A

PRELUDE TO WAR: 1942 B & W 52 min NR

As brilliantly assembled as any of director Frank Capra's Hollywood films, this WWII propaganda film demonstrates how the diplomatic and political bunders made in the wake of WWI led inexorably to WWI I. Throughout the film, the lies of fascism and totalitarianism are contrasted with the ideals of Democracy.

Disc 3: Side B

ADOLPH HITLER-1948, B&W, 80 min, NR

A feature length documentary that chronicles the life of Adolph Hitler from youth through his rise and power. Filled with historical newsreels and an assembly of footage, this is one of the most through biographies of Hitler's life.

DISC 4: Side A

BATTLE OF MIDWAY-1943, Color, 20 min, NR

John Ford directed this Academy Award winning documentary featuring footage of the Japanese's attack on Midway Island in the North Pacific, edited together with narration by Hollywood actors.

THE FIGHTING LADY-1945 Color 60 min. NR

This Academy Award winning documentary from director William Wyler follows the exploits of an aircraft carrier, its crew, and the planes transported on its deck.

Disc 4: Side B

DESERT VICTORY-1943, B & W, 60 min, NR

This Academy Award-winning British documentary traces the struggle between the opposing forces of generals Rommel and Montgomery, from the defeat at El Alemein to the ultimate British Victory at Tripoli

Disc 5: Side A

NUREMBERG- 1946, B & W, 75 min, NR

This Russian documentary was assembled the same year that the Nuremberg War Crimes trials began. While many of the issues raised and fates pf the defendants wereUnresolved at the time of production, filmmaker C. Svilov presents propaganda on behalf of the victorious Soviet forces.

Disc 5: Side B

THE GREAT GENERALS GENERAL BRADLEY-1948, B&W, 28 min, NRGeneral Omar N. Bradley considered himself to be a failure during WWI when he was kept stateside, but during WWII he commanded a division, a corps, an army, and finally a group of armies!

GENERAL PATTON-1947, B&W, 27 min, NR

This film profiles the egotistical, bullish and always controversial General George S. Patton, a true icon of WWII, hero of the Battle of the Bulge and commander of the allied Advance into Germany.

GENERAL EISENHOWER-1953, Color, 25 min, NR

This film chronicles the achievements of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the man with many titles including soldier, statesman, president, beloved hero of D-Day, the invasion of Normandy and the defeater of Germany at the Battle of the Bulge.

Disc 6: Side A

APPOINTMENT IN TOKYO-1945, B & W, 55 MIN. NRThis inspiring documentary covers the entire American Pacific campaign from the Battaan retreat to the surrender of Japan. Many of the film's more unforgettable scenes, have been culled from captured Japanese newsreels. The "star" of the proceedings is General Douglas MacArthur, who after three years of relentless fighting makes good his promise "I shall return."

Disc 6: Side B

THE MEMPHIS BELLE 1944, Color, 42 min, NR

Filmed in color, The Memphis Belle has long been held up as a "model" wartime documentary. The film assembles footage from several allied bombing missions into one single representative flight of the famed Flying Fortress known as the Memphis Belle. The danger facing theses Flying Fortresses in underlined, but never overemphasized, by brief glimpses of those doomed ships that didn't make it back.

Disc 7: Side A

NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1945, B & W, 60 min, NR (contains graphic material)

Produced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Herman Goring and twenty other Nazi leaders. View the Nazi concentration camps as the Allied forces saw them during liberation as captured on this graphic and shocking video.

Disc. 7: Side B

SMASHING THE REICH-1961, B & W, 83 min NR

The interesting World War II documentary by Perry Wolf features archival footage that focuses on the air war over Europe in addition to major European wartime scenes like the meeting of Russian and American troops at the Elbe River and the liberation of the prisoners in the concentration camps. A concise narration provides the necessary information on the unfolding scenes of the war and, together with the images, makes for an educational documentary.

Disc 8: Side A

TUNISIAN VICTORY- 1944, B & W 76 min NR

Produced by the British Film Unit and the U.S. Army Signal Corps, the film covers the length and breadth of the applied North African campaign, from first landings to final triumph. This acclaimed documentary is narrated by Bernard Miles and Burgess Meredith under the direction of the legendary Frank Capra.

Disc 8: Side B

THUNDERBOLT-1945 Color, 45 min, NR

Thunderbolt was the last of Major William Wyler's wartime directorial efforts on behalf of the US Army Air Corps. T

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Narration by: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Paul Newman, Clark Cable, Burgess Meredith, And more...

Running Time: Over 26 hours.

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