I was listening to a radio program, last week, and they mentioned a movie that never really became well-known/popular in the United States. It is a World War II movies filmed a year or so after the war ended. It was a British production. I will post the information I found on-line about it but want you to know that both my son and I watched it and it was fantastic. The excerpt about it will explain more. If you want to research it, the film is called "Theirs is the Glory" and it will direct you to several sites about the film.
Found on-line:
In September 1944, the Allies launched one of the most audacious attacks of the entire Second World War. Men of the British 1st Airborne Division landed at Arnhem in Holland to capture and hold a vital bridge across the River Rhine. In one bold move, the war could have been shortened by months.
It was a desperately risky strategy and it ended in distater. Allied intelligence had underestimated German strength in the area, including a crack Panzer unit. For days the paratroopers held out against overwhelming odds in a gallant action that since passed into military legend - but defeat was inevitable.
Theirs Is The Glory is a truly remarkable and totally unique account of that battle. One year after the war, survivors from the 1st Airborne returned to the actual battlefield amid the ruins of teh town and re-enacted the battle in front of film cameras. There are no actors. There are no studio sets.Everything that happens in this extraordinary documentary film actually happened to those taking part or witnessed by them.
There is no finer tribute to the soldiers who gave their lives at Arnhem and no better film record of one of the fiercest-fought battles of the Second World War.
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