Tunisian Victory (1944) | Full Movie | Leo Genn | Burgess Meredith | Bernard Miles
Watch Tunisian Victory (1944) Full Movie on The Film Detective. From the invasion of North Africa to the fall of Tunis! This captivating documentary is part of a series containing original archive footage filmed under actual battle conditions by service and newsreel cameramen attached to American, British, French, Russian and enemy forces. Directors Frank Capra, Hugh Stewart, and John Huston were involved in patching this movie together, utilizing the familiar voices of Burges Meredith, Leo Gann, and Winston Churchill. Also, look for footage of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Adolph Hitler! No WWII documentary would be complete without them!
Directors: Frank Capra, Hugh Stewart
Starring: Leo Genn, Burgess Meredith, Bernard Miles, Jacques Duchesne
My uncle Bernard Wallis, who I believe served in the Essex Regiment, fought right across North Africa from El Alamein, Egypt to Tunisia. He fought to retake Kasserine Pass from the Germans three times. In the third battle, he suffered severe shrapnel wounds in his leg and the medics thought to amputate that bad leg, but a young American army surgeon was convinced he could operate and save the leg, he did it and my uncle Bernie rejoined the war against the nazis and the only effect was a depression, a hole in the back of his upper leg which never affected his walking nor his work as a builder.
My Dad forght in the Pacific 1st Marines. Bravest man I have ever known. Thanks Dad.
Mine too! Semper Fi!
Absolutely awesome documentary. My grandfather was in the 8th Army, Anti Tank Regt, he was killed on 21st April 1943 aged 30. He was tended to by an American sergeant by the name of Nedeau from Detroit according to reports/ newspaper articles that l am lucky to have. He is remembered in his hometown of Wolverhampton, his grave is at Enfidaville WC in Enfida, Tunisia which to date l have visited twice as did his son (my dad) who was only 18 months old when his father was killed. RIP all the brave men and women who served.
My great uncle died in Allemaine, tank.He was 22yrs old. My gran kept his picture in our parlour. Get close to his photo and ma would know ! . Not a warmonger but enjoyed your offering. His name was David. Thanks, Dave
My dad landed in Oran, across N Africa, Kasserine Pass, Tunisia, Sicily, Naples, Monte Casino.
Dad was 82nd and his brother was 101. Uncle John was wounded in Morocco. He met a "French" Morroccian nurse and came back and married her after the war.
My daddy was in the 82nd 504th PIR
That's great!
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Excellent video...my Grandfather and some Great Uncle's were in that terrible war . THANK GOD WE WON !
My grandfather on my dads side was killed on 06 May 1943 near Bizerta. 6Bn, York and Lancaster regiment. He has no known grave but is commemorated on the memorial at Medjez-El-Bab CWGC cemetery. Thanks for sharing.
I am from Bizerte
Something to be proud of! A cousin of mine was an officer in 3 Grenadier Guards, Ist Guards Brigade, 78th Division, who took part in operations around Longstop Hill in Tunisia, and commanded a company in Italy, where he won a Military Cross. A real gentleman. Both his sons were Grenadiers, one left as a Colonel, and is now Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall. Another cousin from the same family, was a Commando captain on HMS Walney, who died when the ship tried to break into the port at Oran, and was blasted apart by the French. It is good to remember them all! .
An OUTSTANDING Documentary! I searched a while for something this good. Thank you so much for sharing!
I would like to say, that my grandfather served with the Royal Engineers 8th Army, through all the North African Campaign and through Italy. As a veteran myself of more resent conflicts, my grandfather was a great inspiration to me. I would hope that all the veterans of WW2 are always remembered for their endeavours and sacrifice. So many times in this over populated world of today, give no respect or credence, to those who came before them, and faced dangers that I doubt, many today would conquer. Complete respect for those who suffered and died for freedom, should not be lost due to time, or through the ignorance of fools. We should all be reminded once in a while, why we have the freedoms we have, and how much pain and suffering it took to keep them.
Respect? You destroyed Africa for hundreds of years. What respect does that deserve?
@@sicritis You sad little person, North Africa was always a mess, if you lived under the Nazis you would all be slaves or dead.. As it is you would rather live under your own dictators and murder each other.. I respect those trying to give people the choice of freedom, not morons like you, who prefer destroy it.
So true and well said. My Great Uncle Frank Rush was in the Pacific fighting the Japanese in the American Army. A grenade went off in the trench he was in . He woke up 2 days later . The Japanese had overtaken their position and piled dead G.I. on top of him . He lay there for 2 days till the Japanese moved on . He crawled through enemy lines at night getting back to his own men . Now that is a Badass!
@@sicritis The British also brought the only peaceful civilization and stability to the African continent. I would say that deserves much respect. They have along with many other countries been supporting Africa with foreign aid and medical care for decades. I think that deserves some respect. All this was only possible because 1000s of Allied forces died there. I would say that deserves some respect. Now then considering that Hitler hated black people and would have eradicated the race from the planet had it not been for the British and American forces. I would say that deserves some respect. The very freedom that you have to be able to post such a condescending statement . You only have that freedom because of British and American forces! I am a proud American. I have respect for no other country above Great Britain and America! Some people don't think before they post. GOD Bless the UNITED KINGDOM AND AMERICA!
@@larrybone4349 dude you are a clown. Putin is coming for your asss
Excellent film so sorry it had to be done. Thank you for your service and your sacrifice
My uncle Robert Grindley was killed on Apr. 27th 1943 during this battle as a member of the Grenadier Guards. He was 20 years old.
3rd Battalion?
Amazing war ww2 video! Thanks for the upload! Never seen this!
That was an awesome video, incredible live footage Well done
Great Documentary. Tremendous Action. One of the Best. Thanks. Do watch & enjoy. Victory!
Great documentary! I especially appreciated the inclusion of The Warsaw Concerto as the theme music; A magnificent tribute to the courage of those who so bravely defended Warsaw at the very start of that war.
It's a very heroic sounding piece of music and very appropriate but that is Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto.
@anisepalladino152 good knowledge
It's very humblin😊g to see all this comments about those brave men that fought in all those campainswe thank you all for giving your lives so that we can live in peace thank you each and every one of you and rest in peacexxxxxxx
The best documentary film I've ever seen. The great actor Burgess Meredith was one of the narrative voices. This is the story of the first victories over the Nazi regiment in North Africa. Ron from Melbourne Fl.
Great film. Nice narration by Leo Genn and Burgess Meredith. Great production telling the story of Operation Torch and moving across north Africa, the 8th Army from Egypt, the British, French and Americans from the west, all climaxed at the battle for Tunisia. Well done. A nice introduction to the history of that campaign, setting the stage to invade Sicily in July 1943.
This is history this must be preserved for the future generations to know and to see what warriors and into the future we must never go back to our past
Thank you
This is a BEAUTIFUL Movie!
My dad and his brothers were in WWII, U.S Navy. My dad and one brother in the Pacific and the two in the Atlantic. Uncle Bill was a small boat handler, landing craft. He (my uncle Bill) was at North Africa, Sicily, D-Day. Didn't talk much about it
Heroes of humanity. Congrats for the military film documents
Wow! One of the best film docs I've ever seen, incredible 'live' footage, great writing and production, and an emotional ending. Really fantastic, thanks a ton. And damn the tyrants of the world! (read: Putin)
My Dad was with the First Infantry Division, 32nd. FA Batallion in Operation Torch...
Always good to hear Bethnal Green mentioned, but I just wonder how many from there would volunteer now?
They made other films, Battle of San Pietro 1945 etc, music score which you can get on CD composed by Dimitri Tiomkin.
Geez, 16 minutes into this and youtube has already interrupted it four times for commercials.
If you are watching on a desktop ADBlock works well. Doesn't work at all on my IPhone
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Great documentary. However, inserting a ad every 2:30 to 3:30 minutes is HIGHLY intrusive to the story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Leo Genn had an interesting War. With war approaching, Genn joined the Officers' Emergency Reserve in 1938. He was commissioned in the Royal Artillery on 6 July 1940 and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1943. Genn was awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1945. He was part of the British unit that investigated war crimes at Belsen concentration camp and later was an assistant prosecutor at the Belsen war crimes trials in Lüneburg, Germany
TY for that- I never read about him but I will now.
lam proud my uncles had a hand in this and came home safe, ever american should watch this
15:34 That is Not General Patton's voice. It sounds like General Eisenhower. Patton had a high pitched Virginia drawl.
A great INFO MOVIE!!!!
what movie it was a docu
That conversation between Burgess Meredith and Bernard Miles at the end sure was corny, and yet heartwarming.
I sailed in the RCN from 77-89 , large Convoys to Britain would sail bringing in food supplies and relief . Great Port cities to visit and go ashore and have a lot of fun.
This is actually a good docu
We shall never see their like again.....to our great peril.
My great uncle was in the Tunisia battle, a tank commander with the Duke of Cornwall regiment. He was killed by a German sniper. His loss was mourned in his home village in Cornwall.
My condolences May he R.I.P. ... God bless you and your family
@@rafaelramirez1507 Thank you. Fortunately, my father and uncle both survived WWII and lived for many years afterward.
My great uncle died at El Alamein for the 2nd Calvary Div. NZ. Found in his bren carrier.
Something to be proud of! As someone with Bolitho blood in me, I take notice when I see 'Cornwall'. I observe that it is often the case that information changes over time, as in the old army example of word being passed down a lne of soldiers, that starts "Send reinforcements - we are going to advance", and arrives as " Send three and fourpence, we are going to a dance!" / So surely you mean the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry? The Second Battalion was in Tunisia. And surely infantry battalions do not operate tanks? Maybe tanks were working with the DCLI? / I have lived in SE Cornwall for 10 years ( Southill, Callington, and Calstock ), but the Bolitho family's roots are in West Penwith, where I would love to live, but am sadly exiled in Brighton, Sussex. My 'war' was to expose council corruption, and later a solicitor abusing boys, and the system plays dirty. So I live elsewhere.
I spent 2 years of my young lif in Morocco. My dad a Captain in the Air Force was transferred there in 58.While in the town of Marrakesh one day we met a man who told us he joined the German Army and the first chance he had, he surrendered. He wanted to go too America
I realize this is a promotional piece, but it skipped over the American II Corp being mauled at the Kasserine Pass. Patton replaced Fredendall and the II started kicking butt.
I believe this was the Allies “finest hour”, WWII, never have so many come together with such an effort, and it is likely such an effort and level of sacrifice will ever be seen again- no matter the cause.
Great doc but there are some funny bits......mentioned of men in the convoy is a man from Montreal. Few if any Canadians were there. It speaks of Bomber Command hitting targets across Europe including Turin Italy while we see an RAF Manchester taking off. The Manchester, father of the great Lancaster was one of the poorest performing bombers of WW2 and would NEVER make it to Turin. Funny too is that at Christmas in Tunisia, those wandering around visited the pyramids in Egypt!
Special operations moved the pyramids and Sphinx to Tunisia just to confuse the enemy!
and history repeats
But there was no Marshall plan for the African countries that were as devastated as Europe
Or for the British!
I am curious how the French really did in North Africa. They had suffered from extremely incompetent leadership during the battle of France.
Yeah
The worst of them were still in France
All soldiers are true heroes 🇬🇧
General George Patton's contribution seems to have been over looked.
I certainly noticed that
For most of this campaign the performance of Patton's inexperienced troops was relatively poor compared to the battle-hardened British, French and Germans. In fact General Montgomery derisively referred to the Yanks as "our Italians".
No he did not. Again a myth by an American so abuse can be hurled at Montgomery. HE DID NOT SAY IT
Was it all in vein?
No one congratulated the narrator for this powerful film. War..is a demon..
They make it sound like clockwork. However for instance, one battalion missed its assigned landing zone by 35 miles! Could have the allies invaded Normandy in 1943? Not a chance.
Tunis ! Win
Forgot to mention I had two cousin's brothers they one came and one did not make war is a curse for ever morexxx
My Dad took me there in 1970 and i remember the ants and pill boxes He was in ww2 on mortars British
Next time no commercials
David Whittington God bless your grandfather God bless his family
Japanese raw materials???
If the Germans had to face movies like this everywhere ...
Tunisian Victory 1943
My grandpa, great grandpa, uncle, my great uncle, my cousins, me in a former life, served in North Africa.
*"Kaboom?"* Yes, guys. Kaboom. 49:20
It is documentary film
How did you figure that out?
No mention of the battle where Americans ran; Kasserine Pass. They pulled themselves together and had success against the wehrmacht
Leo Genn, surely?
GLD
The allies did a remarkable job; they didn't have armor . All they had was the Sherman tank that was little more than steel coffin .
Well said Gus - it would have been tank ... in WW 1 .
49:16 49:17
Without the British Empire, this would not have been possible. Today, the Marxists spit on the empire, but it served it's purpose at the time, and was in place to prevent tyranny engulfing the world. Had Britain fallen as France did, America's inbuilt isolation, both emotional and geographic, would have made it very hard to do much. It was the strategic reach of the British Empire, and the resources in men and materiel, that laid the foundations on which all else was built. Unaffected by bombing, America was able to develop huge factories, and to build vast numbers of tanks, lorries, jeeps, ships and planes. Even under bombing, Britain's own industrial output was huge, and even with our own commitments, we sent much to Russia. / A new form of tyranny seeks to utterly control our world today - a tyranny far more insidious, far more dangerous than those we faced in WW2. Governments are full of people who in WW2 would have been called Quislings, whose loyalty is not to their country or it's people, but far distant unelected global groups, for whom zero accountability exists. An agenda, preplanned for decades, is steadily rolling out, removing all freedoms, and transforming us all into slaves. An evil such as this, is blasted 24/7 via TV brainwashing, and even toddlers are not exempt. / If those who fought in WW2 could see our world today, they would think we were insane to let this happen. Was this what they fought, suffered, and all too often died for? .
Sadly you are correct, hope it is the fact that your comment is at the bottom of a long list, though not too long, that you have had no agreements nor likes, people must see what you are saying as correct and stop this nonsense in being politically correct or whatever it goes by today. The change in the U K is sickening indeed everything laid on a plate to folk that are not refugees whilst citizens living on the streets get nothing near the same treatment.
@@patrickhouston2610 KZhead ghosts many comments - censored. What is needed, is for those who care for the future, to come together, and brainstorm that future. To win, we must evolve - and very few want to evolve, though many criticise. When one evolves, the mind steps up a level or two, and fresh ideas emerge. Fresh ideas are what is needed. And leadership. Leadership that offers a practical alternative, not just noise. This takes work. And few can work, let alone work consistently. /
whats that frog doing with a Garand 21:13
Shooting
Free Frog.
The Free French fighting with the US in this war were supplied with US arms & Ammo to simplify supplies, My relations were among the Free French You insult Me & them by calling them Frogs
@@robertdanner6302 You are way too easily insulted on the behalf of others. Frog is a common nickname in the English language for a Frenchie. Just like, Yank, Limey, Pommy, Canuk, Kiwi, Kraut, etc etc.
@@davidwatson2399 I called them the French. I don't call them anything else other than that the same way I will call a British person a britisher or any of those other names that you attach. Those men fought for freedom before you and I were even born. Show some f****** respect.
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Tuk mi lih ! Offi tret ala bit ? Jaki to wirht kaki !
tunisi w aftakhir
腰抜けのイタ公なんかと組んだのがそもそもの間違い､最後まで足を引っ張られてこの有様。
Wir haben uns aus Tunis zurück gezogen weil in Tunis nix mehr zu tun is 🙈
😂🤣 You are funny.
Last lines in film describe subtlety what the Anglo-American plan was going to be, dominance of the entire world. Mussolini and Hitler, and Japan, US , etc except USSR and the forming Red Chinese, were all privatizing capitalist imperialist, western powers didn't create Mussolini or full facism , basic facism has existed from the near beginning of civilization. It should be confused with Jack boots and goose stepping soldiers, that's the political ideology, not the economic system , just as democracy is the ideology facism is the conspiracy of corporate and government leadership to exclude the will and voice of the general public, making policy and law on what is best for themselves and the upper wealth class.
Do you remember the holocaust? We do, we all do. Mind you it is the only genocide in the world, to get a title all of its own, one that is thrust down our throats at every opportunity. And guess who by? WEF. IMF. WHO. UN. NATO.
Most likely all of you will hate me weth me only because i support the German army
so the way it look there was no black men or women there WOW
When white people make movies it's all about them ! They'll never tell the truth !!
Wondered how long it would be before someone brought Race into it
@@jonlewis6700 welcome to America 🇺🇸
@@jonlewis6700 well it was true back then, the american forces were segregated. black n whites weren't even allowed to drink in the same bars when on R&R, in most cases. Many US soldiers did not, and would not serve with blacks, Indian, Mexican, or even German, Italian, or Japanese Americans. Sorry but it is true.
04/2022 Thinking of John Lennon's famous words, as we once again see Uropiean city's bombed into heaps of rubble.
Never forget those famous words " well she was just seventeen , you know what I mean " .
Lennon was a bum.
But he was quite rich , and was in a great rock band .
@@marchellochiovelli7259 Songwriter extraordinaire , good guitar player , stoner , rich beyond imagining , but a bum ? I know what you mean .
WTF has John Lennon got to do with this? He was a millionaire commie anyway!
Back when we were a true Christian Nation.
They HAD to bring in Bernard Miles with his overdone country-yokel act: Genn and Meredith would have been sufficient without him.
Today the west forget Christ and that is why they are losing and they will pay the price
Compare the greatness of these heroes to that of todays that dint know which bathroom to use. Pathetic.
Let's Go Brandon.
At 1:12 the two talking about what all the destroyed German equipment might have been. How British and Americans question what is going on where the Axis didn't. Is it me or are we in the US being brain washed into not asking, just doing, when we should still be asking?
I think the young generation is being brainwashed into not thinking of it at all except for how "evil" the USA is and always was (aka CRT.)
Propaganda film of the victors. Narrative speaking of our (Allied Forces) superiority of thought and government. Let's remember those 260K POWs were our allies against the U.S.S.R starting in 1946. The majority of them were drafted - no choice available, just like the majority of our (U.S.A. ) forces were drafted - no choice either in the U.S.A. available. The military was a Godsend to American youth, "3 hots and a cot" + a paycheck. My father, my uncles, my aunts, my cousins and most of their neighbors all went into the military. Yes it had to be done...supposedly. If the Japanese hadn't been stupid, and Hitler hadn't been stupid to declare war on the U.S., then maybe there wouldn't have been a Cold War, Korea and Vietnam. They were the second "Greatest Generation." The first "Greatest Generation" was the Union forces who kept America one nation. RIP to them all. If you want another viewpoint, watch the movie listed here, "THE VICTORS," or "MURPHY'S WAR,' or "ON THE BEACH' or even "THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI."
Truly a amazing film what he'll on earth