Recherche dans la collection - Dresden : The Death of a City

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: KINES FROM PARC, TORONTO

1984-0367

Film

1965-11-30

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
National Film Board
Imperial War Museum, London

executive producer, Richard Nielsen; editing, Peter Benson; sound, Loch Johnson; narrator, Lamont Tilden; host, Philip Deane

The 1945 Allied bombing of Dresden (Germany) during World War II is the subject of this public affairs program hosted by Philip Deane. In the first of two installments, archival footage, narrative by Lamont Tilden, and the recorded voices of bomber commanders and survivors review "the most devastating raid of the war". Air Chief Marshall and Commander-in-Chief RAF Bomber Command Sir Arthur Harris and his wing commander describe the "double bombing" strategy used in the raid. A German girl recalls her life in Dresden before the war and a Polish girl describes viewing the raid from a nearby work camp. Noteworthy archival footage includes: Sir Winston Churchill's 1941 speech predicting reprisals against Hitler; bomber planes preparing for the raid; shots of bombs being dropped from inside the aircraft; Dresden before the war; and close-ups of debris and corpses after the attack. <30mn>

AERIAL BOMBARDMENT~AIR WARFARE~GERMANY~WORLD WAR, 1939-1945 ~CHURCHILL, WINSTON~DEANE, PHILIP~HARRIS, ARTHUR~HITLER, ADOLF~TILDEN, LAMONT

English

Libre

V1 8411-0079

GAD 0FD547

To be Determined / À déterminer

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur