Desert Victory

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Desert Victory
Directed by David McDonald
Produced by Office of War Information
Starring Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery
Release date(s) 1943
Language English

Desert Victory aka Battle for North Africa was a 1943 film produced by the British Ministry of Information, documenting the Allies' North African campaign against Field Marshall Erwin Rommel and the Afrika Korps. This documentary traces the struggle between Rommel and Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery, from the defeat at El Alamein to the surrender at Tripoli. Like the famous "Why We Fight" series of films by Frank Capra, Desert Victory relies heavily on captured German newsreel footage. Many of the most famous sequences in the film have been excerpted and appear with frequency in History Channel and A&E productions.

The film was directed by David McDonald who also directed a similar picture, Burma Victory.

This epic film won a special Academy Award in 1943.

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