Watch Desert Victory

The Allied advance from Normandy to the Elbe, assembled by Carol Reed and Garson Kanin from a thousand cameramen.

John Ford filmed the battle from the roof of a power station and was wounded doing it; eighteen minutes of 16mm colour.

Australian newsreel from the Kokoda Track in New Guinea, shot by Damien Parer, who was killed two years later.

The Soviet account of the counter-offensive that stopped the Wehrmacht outside Moscow, re-cut for American cinemas.

The first of Frank Capra’s Why We Fight films, made to explain to conscripts what they were being sent into.

A year aboard an American aircraft carrier in the Pacific, filmed in colour by the crew themselves.

Peter Watkins films a nuclear strike on Kent as if it were news; the BBC banned it for twenty years.

Hitler told through Goethe’s Reynard the Fox, in woodcuts and archive, narrated by Marlene Dietrich.