D-Day to Victory

This documentary uses some "new" approaches to showing combat in Europe during the second world war. In addition to the usual black and white footage of soldiers in the field, they use contemporary technology and graphics to illustrate how the weapons of world war two worked and inflicted damage and wounds to combatants.

I was particularly impressed with the sequence where they prepared and used real ordnance to show what being shelled in a fox hole in the Ardennes must have been like.

No Hollywood precut trees, squibs and special effects. The real thing is shocking. How anyone could survive such an ordeal is beyond me.

The interviews are touching. Overall a good but not outstanding documentary about the fighting in Europe after D-Day.

Am i missing something about this show but where the Americans involved in the Normandy invasion? Not by this show, it was a Canadian and British affair, I guess the Americans were somewhere but not Normandy, RIGHT. The first show, showed Americans but every show to date, it's always the same former American soldier saying at the beginning, "democracy, apple pie, ice cream, that's bull, that bull", and no one else. Since America had nothing to do with the invasion or the fighting why should I keep watching. If there's a show on the Battle of the Buldge, Americans had nothing to do with that either. I won't be watching D-Day to Victory anymore and took it off my DVR record series.