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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.—9 PM 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.6/6/94

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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 begins 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 mission, 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 anniversary. "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 documentary 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 '84 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 EDELSTEIN
Charles Durning, veteran of Normandy, in 1944

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.
(1) D-DAY: THE OFFICIAL STORY
—Documentary 1:05 8090457 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 absorbing (and, at three hours, exhaustive) retrospective, benefits from telling recollections 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