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''Desert Victory'' is a 1943 film produced by the British Ministry of Information, documenting the Allies' North African campaign against Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and the 
Afrika Korps
The Afrika Korps or German Africa Corps (, }; DAK) was the German expeditionary force in Africa during the North African Campaign of World War II. First sent as a holding force to shore up the Italian defense of its African colonies, the ...
. This documentary traces the struggle between General Erwin Rommel and Field Marshal
Field marshal (or field-marshal, abbreviated as FM) is the most senior military rank, ordinarily senior to the general officer ranks. Usually, it is the highest rank in an army and as such few persons are appointed to it. It is considered as ...
Bernard Montgomery, from the German's defeat at El Alamein to Tripoli. The film was produced by David MacDonald and directed by Roy Boulting who also directed '' Tunisian Victory'' and '' Burma Victory''. Like the famous "Why We Fight
''Why We Fight'' is a series of seven propaganda films produced by the US Department of War from 1942 to 1945, during World War II. It was originally written for American soldiers to help them understand why the United States was involved in the ...
" series of films by Frank Capra, ''Desert Victory'' relies heavily on captured German newsreel footage. Many of the most famous sequences in the film have been excerpted and appear with frequency in History Channel
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and A&E productions. The film won a special Oscar
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in 1943 and the 1951 film '' The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel'' took sections of the film for its battle footage.
See also
*List of Allied Propaganda Films of World War 2
During World War II and immediately after it, in addition to the many private films created to help the war effort, many Allied countries had governmental or semi-governmental agencies commission propaganda and training films for home and foreig ...
References
External links
* * 1943 films 1943 war films 1943 documentary films British documentary films British World War II propaganda films Black-and-white documentary films 1940s English-language films Best Documentary Feature Academy Award winners Films directed by Roy Boulting Films scored by William Alwyn 20th Century Fox films British black-and-white films {{1940s-UK-film-stub