Desert Victory (Film Trailer)

Stirring trailer for renowned war documentary Desert Victory - coming to a screen near you!

With its fly-in text over static background imagery, this trailer for the Ministry of Information's celebrated feature-length WWII documentary, Desert Victory (1943), may seem a little rudimentary by today's standards. Yet its bold typography, stirring music and beautiful illustration evoking the Allies' North African campaign, while simple, powerfully convey the drama.

Desert Victory (1943) went on to enjoy an international release and won Best Documentary Feature at the 16th Academy Awards in 1944. One contemporary newspaper review described it as 'the most highly praised picture of the moment (there is standing room only at every performance)'. Like most film trailers of the era it was produced by the National Screen Service, the dominant producer of feature film trailers from the 1920s to the 1980s.