THE TRUE GLORY (DOCUMENTARY)...

British filmmaker Carol Reed and American playwright Garson Kanin team up to direct the war documentary The True Glory.

The movie was assembled from actual footage of the WWII allied invasion of Europe, captured by thousands of different camera operators.

Starting with D-Day, the documentary covers the major battles all the way to the fall of Berlin, along with personal vignettes. The prologue is read by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, with Robert Harris and Peter Ustinov providing narration.

The True Glory won an Academy award for Best Documentary in 1945.

WWII IN COLOUR (Full Documentary)...

WWII IN COLOUR documents the Second World War as the troops saw it in full colour.

This three-hour digitally remastered DVD presents a rarely-seen picture of the war.
The programme includes colour footage of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, D-Day, a B-17 bombing raid over Germany, the Allied advance into France and Italy, the liberation of Dachau, and much more.

Additional bonus material includes a timeline with vintage newsreels and Combat America, an uncut 60-minute government film narrated by Clarke Gable...