War on film: Tunisian Victory

Talk of the war in North Africa and most Brits will think of Tobruk or El Alamein, while most Americans will think of Operation Torch, the Kasserine Pass, and Tunisia. The victory at El Alamein was presented in a powerful British film made by the Army Film and Photographic Unit, Desert Victory, a box-office hit in 1943 which won a Best Documentary Oscar (director: Roy Boulting; see MHM May 2016). The ultimate defeat of the Axis forces in North Africa was treated in an Anglo-American film, Tunisian Victory. This documentary, made from record film of the campaign, contains some superb material ranging from the landings in French north-west Africa in November 1942 to the Axis surrender in Tu