The True Glory: 1945 Acadamy Award Winning World War II Film

The True Glory (1945)
Director: Garson Kanin
Writer: Paddy Chayefsky (writer)
Release Date: 4 October 1945 (USA)
Genre: Documentary - War
Length: 1:21:03


he True Glory was a 1945 co-production of the US Office of War Information and the British Ministry of Information, documenting the victory on the Western Front, from Normany to the collapse of the Third Reich.


Although many individuals contributed to the film, British director Carol Reed is normally credited as the director. The film was promoted with the tagline, "The story of your victory...told by the guys who won it!"


The documentary is notable for using multiple first person perspectives as narrative voices, somewhat in the manner of Tunisian Victory, except this time, instead of just an American GI and a British Tommie, the voices include a Canadian, a French resister, a Parisan civilian family, an African-American tank gunner, and several female perspectives including a nurse, and clerical staff.


The film is introduced by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe, and many other prominent individuals appear in it including General George S. Patton.