Victory At Sea - 1954 (tv)
From cover: No history of television is complete without a chapter devoted to Victory at Sea an extraordinary, 26 week, Emmy Award winning series that changed the face of the TV documentary. An integrated pictorial and musical chronicle of the epochal events pertaining to the life and death of those engaged in the naval action of World War II, Victory at Sea won the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award, and for his monumental, 13 hour score which Variety has described as the finest original work of its kind produced by an American composer, Richard Rodgers won an Emmy Award. The feature-length theatrical version of the acclaimed series, culled from more that 60 million feet of film taken from the archives of allied and enemy nations as well as from private sources around the world and the vaults of the Navy Photographic Center and the Army Signal Corps, is a vivid documentation of men and arms at war. With poetic commentary spoken by Alexander Scourby and the lyrical Richard Rodgers score arranged and conducted by Robert Russell Bennett and the NBC Symphony Orchestra, this exceptional film is an unforgettable history of victory on land as it is a triumph at sea, hailed by The New York Times as as exciting tribute to determined and courageous men and a convincing casebook on the wanton waste of war. An emotionally powerful document, Victory at Sea depicts the human and historic drama as it was lived between the Axis ascendancy in 1939 and the great homecoming of Americas fighting men in 1945. In between were the faces of the Marines at Guadalcanal, Saipan and other Pacific jungle bastions, the famed Battle of Midway, the sea holocausts in the Mediterranean as well as the North Atlantic and South Pacific, the D-Day assault on the Normandy beaches, the Japanese Kamikaze attacks pitting pilots who fought to die against gunners who fought to live. The indelible flag-raising at Iwo Jima, and other memories, vividly captured on film, that are a permanent part of 20th century history. Directed by Isaac Kleinerman Writing credits Richard Hanser Henry Salomon Cast (in credits order) Alexander Scourby .... Narrator (voice) rest of cast listed alphabetically: Harold Alexander .... Himself (archive footage) Alan Brooke .... Himself (archive footage) Winston Churchill .... Himself (archive footage) Galeazzo Ciano .... Himself (archive footage) Karl Dönitz .... Himself (archive footage) Josef Goebbels .... Himself (archive footage) Rudolf Hess .... Himself (archive footage) Heinrich Himmler .... Himself (archive footage) Hirohito .... Himself (archive footage) Adolf Hitler .... Himself (archive footage) Wilhelm Keitel .... Himself (archive footage) King Victor Emmanuel III .... Himself (archive footage) Bernard L. Montgomery .... Himself (archive footage) Benito Mussolini .... Himself (archive footage) Pope Pius XII .... Himself (archive footage) Franklin Delano Roosevelt .... Himself (archive footage) Joachim von Ribbentrop .... Himself (archive footage) Runtime: 98 min Country: USA Language: English Color: Black and White Sound Mix: Mono (RCA Sound Recording) Certification: Finland:K-16 / USA:Approved (General Audience) Sweden:15
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