Desert Victory

Desert Victory 1943

6.00

A featureless land fit only for war, as the narrator, J. L. Hodson stated in the early scenes: "If war was to be fought then let it begin here". In endless miles of rock-strewn scrub desert, where civilians hardly existed. Desert Victory tells the story of the Allied campaign to drive Germany and Italy from North Africa is analysed, with the major portion of the film examining the battles at El Alamein, including some re-enactment. Won "Best Documentary Feature" at the 16th Academy Awards in 1944.

1943

Journey Together

Journey Together 1945

6.10

Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.

1945

Naples Is a Battlefield

Naples Is a Battlefield 1944

6.20

The capture of Naples, the first great European city to be liberated, revealed the magnitude of the tasks involved in re-creating the means of livelihood and the machinery of government in a devastated, starving and disease-ridden city.

1944

Bits of Our Aircraft are Missing

Bits of Our Aircraft are Missing 1940

6.00

British Air Ministry short film highlighting the need for the public to stay clear of aircraft wreckage during World War II.

1940

The Air Plan

The Air Plan 1945

1

Eric Portman narrates this 1945 retrospective account from the RAF Film Production Unit, celebrating the RAF's role in tghe Normandy campaign, with outstanding footage of RAF Typhoons's blitzing targets with salvos of rockets and cannon fire.

1945