Produced and narrated by George Stevens Jr., this short documentary uses footage taken by his father when he was in the Army Signal Corps and follows American troops from D-Day in June 1944 ... Read allProduced and narrated by George Stevens Jr., this short documentary uses footage taken by his father when he was in the Army Signal Corps and follows American troops from D-Day in June 1944 to the end of the European war.Produced and narrated by George Stevens Jr., this short documentary uses footage taken by his father when he was in the Army Signal Corps and follows American troops from D-Day in June 1944 to the end of the European war.
- Won 3 Primetime Emmys
- 3 wins & 1 nomination total
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Ken Marthey
- Self
- (voice)
Ivan Moffat
- Self
- (voice)
Hollingsworth Morse
- Self
- (voice)
Irwin Shaw
- Self
- (voice)
Omar N. Bradley
- Self
- (archive footage)
Charles de Gaulle
- Self
- (archive footage)
Bernard L. Montgomery
- Self
- (archive footage)
George S. Patton
- Self
- (archive footage)
George Stevens
- Self
- (archive footage)
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- Writer
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- TriviaGeorge Stevens Jr. and his editor Catherine Shields have been sanctioned after the TV Academy learned that a project for which they received Emmys in 1994 was not an original work. Official statement from TV Academy is, "Recently, the Television Academy became aware of a 1985 BBC documentary, D-Day to Berlin, which shared some production elements with the similarly-titled 1994 program George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin, a documentary entered into the Emmy competition. Based on a review of the two programs, the Television Academy concluded that the 1994 documentary was ineligible for Emmy consideration per the 'Criteria for Eligibility Rule #9,' which reads - a program that is a foreign acquisition without benefit of a domestic co-production cannot be re-introduced into eligibility in a current awards year, even though it may have been modified with new footage, sound track, musical score, etc. Because of this determination, the 1994 documentary's Emmy nominations and wins have been disqualified."
On March 2020, the TV Academy made the unprecedented decision to rescind the four nominations and three wins (which no longer appear on the Emmys webpages noting Stevens' or Shields' track records at the ceremony).
- GoofsThe narrator describes a pictured Nazi jet fighter, the first of its kind, as the Messerschmitt 216. That aircraft is the Messerschmitt 262.
- ConnectionsEdited from George Stevens' World War II Footage (1946)
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On to victory
Alongside fellow directors Frank Capra, John Ford, George Huston and William Wyler, George Stevens journeyed overseas during World War II in order to get a glimpse on what the conflict was like. This film is a collection of some of the things Stevens shot, filmed in color using the same Kodachrome film he made his home movies with. Stevens followed the US Army in Europe as they assaulted the hellish beaches of Normandy in northern France during the largest amphibious attack in history. The highlight of his entire reel (and according to himself, his whole life) was being in the midst of a newly liberated Paris. The charismatic general Charles de Gaulle returns after 4 years in exile, embodying the soul of a resurgent france. Stevens also takes footage of a big military parade being held in front of the Arc de Triomphe, as well as a high ranking German commander surrendering to Allied forces. As american forces push further into europe, Stevens is there with them and documents the Battle of the Bulge, the last major german attack of the war which was launched to give Hitler a straight passageway to the crucial port of Antwerp. The Belgian countryside is devastated, but Stevens records a mass surrender of german troops, an event in which they even gave up 25 generals, as well as some GI's hanging grenades on a Christmas tree. After advancing across the Rhine river into germany, another extremely important event is captured by Stevens, as American and Soviet forces finally meet at the Elbe River in germany. While they were a world away from each other fighting their own separate campaigns, Russian and american cameramen, both tasked with filming the war, get along almost instantly. A much more serious location is next for Stevens, as he and his unit come across the Dachau camp in the south of germany. Here, they discover scores of malnourished prisoners. Thousands are already dead. Many are disease ridden due to typhus. Many former SS guards try to evade capture by wearing prisoner uniforms, but many are recognized and beaten to death by enraged inmates. Stevens ventures on to Nordhausen, where a huge underground complex comprising 40 miles of tunnels is located. The germans have been using inmates and prisoners to build Hitler's wonder weapons that were supposed to change the tide of the war, such as the ME-262 jet fighter and V2 ballistic missile. Lastly, Stevens gets permission from the soviets to go to Berlin, which they are intent on holding on to since 200 thousand russians died capturing it. Stevens would be part of this film unit until 1946. Because of what he saw during the war, his subsequent movies were not as comedic as his past ones. Keep in mind, this is the same guy who wrote jokes for a large amount of Laurel and Hardy films. Overall, I really liked this unique look at history, not only because it was well made and reminded me a lot of World at War, but also since having such important pieces of ww2 history on film is crucial to making sure the lessons of it are not forgotten. Maybe it's not coincidental that I felt like I was watching World at War while viewing this, since Carl Davis did the music. He really did manage to set up the mood of the entire war musically.
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- Runtime46 minutes
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