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D-Day Remembered (1994), produced by WGBH-TV as part of the Public Broadcasting System's American Experience series, features skillfully edited archival film and new footage, overlain with voices of D-Day veterans and narration by historian David McCullough, in an elegiac tribute to the American GI's self-sacrifice. Morning, June–August 1944 (1973), produced as part of the acclaimed World at War series by Thames Television and narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier, is organized around original film footage and contemporary interviews, placing Operation Overlord squarely within the huge global struggle of World War II. The True Glory (1945), produced by the U.S. Office of War Information and the British Ministry of Information, employs dramatized voice-overs of participants from most of the Allied countries in an often sentimentalized and stereotyped film that stresses the truly international effort of the Normandy campaign.


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