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{{short description|1945 film by Carol Reed, Garson Kanin}}

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| director = [[Garson Kanin]]<br>[[Carol Reed]]

| writer = [[Paddy Chayefsky]]

| starring = [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]<br>[[George S. Patton]]<br>[[Sam Levene]]<br> [[Peter Ustinov]]

| music = [[William Alwyn]]

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| cinematography = [[Russ Meyer]]

| released = {{Film date|1945|08|27|UK|1945|10|04|U.S.|df=y}}

'''''The True Glory''''' (1945) is a co-production of the US [[Office of War Information]] and the British [[Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Information]], documenting the victory on the Western Front, from Normandy to the collapse of the [[Third Reich]].

Although many individuals, including screenwriter and director [[Garson Kanin]], contributed to the film, British director [[Carol Reed]] is normally credited as the director. The documentary was promoted with the tagline, "The story of your victory...told by the guys who won it!" The film won the [[Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature]].<ref name="Oscars1946">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1946 |title=The 18th Academy Awards (1946) Nominees and Winners |access-date=May 29, 2019|work=oscars.org}}</ref>

The [[documentary film]] is notable for using multiple first-person perspectives as narrative voices, somewhat in the manner of ''[[Tunisian Victory]]'' (1944). However, in ''The True Glory'', instead of just an American [[G.I. (military)|G.I.]] and a British [[Tommy Atkins|Tommy]], the voices include a Canadian, a French resister, a Parisian civilian family, an African-American tank gunner, and several female perspectives including a nurse and clerical staff. The film is introduced by General [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe. Prominent commentators include General [[George S. Patton]]; Best Actor [[Tony Award|Tony]] nominee and American Theatre Hall of Fame and [[Grammy Hall of Fame]] Broadway and film star [[Sam Levene]]; two-time [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]-winning film actor and director, [[Peter Ustinov]]; and three-time [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]-winning playwright [[Paddy Chayefsky]].<ref>{{Citation|last=None credited|title=THE TRUE GLORY restored.|url=http://archive.org/details/TheTrueGloryRestored|publisher=UK Ministry of Information & US Office of War Information|access-date=2020-03-17}}</ref>

The title is taken from a letter of [[Francis Drake|Sir Francis Drake]], which is quoted in a final caption: "There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory."<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Bonner-Smith|first1=D.|title=Drake's Prayer|journal=The Mariner's Mirror|date=1950|volume=36|pages=86–87|doi=10.1080/00253359.1950.10657582}}</ref>

== See also ==

*[[List of Allied propaganda films of World War II]]

*{{cite journal |title='The Yanks Are Shown to Such Advantage': Anglo-American rivalry in the production of 'The True Glory' (1945) |journal=Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television |volume=16 |issue=4 |pages=533–554 |author=Chapman, James |year=1996 |doi=10.1080/01439689600260531}}

*{{cite journal |title=The True Glory and the Failure of Anglo-American Film Propaganda in the Second World War |journal=Journal of Contemporary History |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=21–34 |author=Krome, Frederic |year=1998 |doi=10.1177/003200949803300102 |jstor=260995|s2cid=159874874 }}

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*{{YouTube| 9ifDqlRZh70 | ''The True Glory'', 1945 (restored) }}, posted by the [[National Archives and Records Administration]]

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