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  2. John Ford's D-Day footage - Wikipedia

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    OMAHA BEACH, Easy Red sector or environs: [1] At 0:39, this clip shows a large cadre of men running up a foggy beach covered in Czech hedgehogs (Shot by USCG Chief Photographer's Mate David C. Ruley [2]) Beachhead to Berlin is a 20-minute Warner Brothers film with narration and a fictionalized framing device that makes extensive use of USGS color footage of D-Day preparations and beach ...

  3. Normandy landings - Wikipedia

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    Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day (after the military term), it is the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of France , and the rest of Western Europe, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front .

  4. BBC History of World War II - Wikipedia

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    D-Day 6.6.1944 (2004, 2 Episodes, 90 minutes, 16:9 Anamorphic, 1 Disc) Docudrama on the events surrounding D-Day. 9. D-Day to Berlin (2004, 3 Episodes, 150 minutes, 16:9 Anamorphic, 1 Disc) Docudrama on the breakout from Normandy, Operation Market Garden, the Battle of the Bulge and the German surrender. Presenter is Sean Bean. 10.

  5. On D-Day, remembering three ‘Angels of Omaha’ who ... - AOL

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    The single most important day of the 20th century was 79 years ago on June 6, 1944, during the pinnacle of World War II. It will forever be remembered as D-Day, but the official code name was ...

  6. The True Glory - Wikipedia

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    The documentary film is notable for using multiple first-person perspectives as narrative voices, somewhat in the manner of Tunisian Victory (1944). However, in The True Glory, instead of just an American G.I. and a British Tommy, the voices include a Canadian, a French resister, a Parisian civilian family, an African-American tank gunner, and several female perspectives including a nurse and ...

  7. List of documentary films about World War II - Wikipedia

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    A Distant Shore: African Americans of D-Day: Douglas Cohen: 2007 Canada My Opposition: The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner: Fern Levitt: 2007 United States Nanking: Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman: 2007 United States Order Castles of the Third Reich: R.J. Adams: 2007 United States Ruins of the Reich: R.J. Adams: 2007 Israel Stalags: Ari Libsker: 2007 ...

  8. D-Day Remembered - Wikipedia

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    D-Day Remembered is a 1994 American documentary film directed by Charles Guggenheim for The National WWII Museum. It aired as an episode of the PBS series American Experience. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. [1] [2]

  9. Brécourt Manor Assault - Wikipedia

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    The assault of Brécourt Manor is depicted in detail in the second episode of the 2001 hit miniseries Band of Brothers ("Day of Days"), where it is the focus of the second half of the episode. The assault of Brécourt Manor is the focus of the sixth mission (in the American Campaign) of the 2003 first-person video game Call of Duty .