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## HEADING: World War II - DOCUMENTARIES

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WAR-147. CBS NEWS SPECIAL: 8/4/92
(2 Hours) Profiling the Generals
of World War II.
OUR CENTURY: D-Day: Day
of Decision. 6/6/44
A FOREIGN FIELD. (1993)
Movie Leo McKern, Alec Guinness,
Lauren Bacall and Jeanne Moreau head
a wonderful ensemble cast in "A For-
eign Field" ★★★ an American Play-
house presentation. It's an entertaining
1993 character study of strangers who
come together at France's Normandy
Beach -9PM Geraldine Chaplin,
Edward Herrmann & John Randolph.
D-DAY: 50 YEARS LATER.5/30/94
(CSP) Intvs. w/vets who are now
in Congress

WAR-148. MEN OF WAR: Untold Stories.
Battle of the Bulge.4/5/90
WAR STORIES: Bulge again.
TIME MACHINE. 4/22/94
Goebbels: Minister of Propoganda.
WARTIME IN WASHINGTON.7/30/90
TURNING POINT: 8/24/94
50th Anniv. Liberation of Paris.
D-Day: Newsreels.
COUNTDOWN TO WAR.
SURVIVAL. 1944 Normandy;
1950 Chosin & 1989 Panama.

WAR-149. ARISE MY LOVE. (BW)(1940)
Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: D-DAY.
BATTLE OF THE BULGE 12/44
NORMANDY--THE GREAT CRUSADE.
(DSC) Narr. Cha. Durning.6/6/44

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WAR-150. AN ORIGINAL WORLD PREMIERE
NORMANDY
THE GREAT CRUSADE
NARRATED BY CHARLES DURNING
5/30/94

DSC There is something
extraordinary about
Charles Durning that he can't talk
about, because when he does he be-
gins to cry. It has to do with his
heroic efforts fighting in WWII,
which include being stabbed eight
times in hand-to-hand combat with
a German soldier, being the lone
survivor in a 40-man platoon, and
other incidents that earned him
three purple hearts and a Silver Star.
He also landed on Omaha Beach
during D-day, making his latest
credit as narrator of Normandy: The
Great Crusade (May 30, 9 p.m.) all the
more poignant. The documentary is
timed to the battle's 50th anniver-
sary. "The D-day invasion changed
the history of the world," Durning
says. "Some officer said, 'There
were only two kinds of people on
this beach: those who are dead and
those who are going to be dead.'"
For Durning, narrating the docu-
mentary brought back emotional
memories. "[Writer/director]
Christopher Koch said he heard
something in my voice, sorrow or
whatever it was. I felt good about
that. I was back there in '44 and it
was a catharsis. I saw things I wish
that I hadn't seen, even though it
was a cleansing thing. I had to leave
there right away; I couldn't take it."
—ROBERT EDDELSTIN

TURNING POINT: D-Day. 6/1/94
PRIMETIME LIVE: D-Day. 6/2/94
EYE ON HISTORY: D-Day. 6/5/94
D-DAY 50 YEARS. 6/6/94
AM. EXPERIENCE. D-Day. 6/6/94

WAR-151. D-DAY- THE OFFICIAL STORY.
D-DAY: THE OFFICIAL STORY
—Documentary 1.05 minutes 6/5/94
A history of the epic June 6, 1944, assault by
Allied troops against Hitler's Atlantic Wall on
the beaches of Normandy included events
leading to the invasion, fighting on Omaha
Beach, which "cost the Allies the dearest."
6/5/94

D-DAY- THE TOTAL STORY:
D-Day: The Total Story, an absorb-
ing (and, at three hours, exhaustive)
retrospective, benefits from telling rec-
ollections of vets (one Brit's description
of the "stench" of war is chilling).
6/5/94

NIGHTSIDE: COVERAGE OF D-DAY
COMMEMORATIVE EVENTS. 6/6/94