The King Who Fooled Hitler

7.0(14)201944m

DocumentaryHistory

In a tale of double agents and decoys, this documentary reveals, for the first time, the story of King George VI's elaborate ruse to divert German attention away from the Normandy landings in 1944.

Director

Paul Elston

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Cast

Helen McCrory

Narrator (voice)

Richard J. Aldrich

Self - University of Warwick

Rory Cormac

Self - Associate Professor, Nottingham University

King George VI of the United Kingdom

Self (archive footage)

Neville Chamberlain

Self (archive footage)

Winston Churchill

Self (archive footage)

Caroline Erskine

Self - Daughter of Sir Alan Lascelles

Adolf Hitler

Self - Führer und Reichskanzler (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self (archive footage)

Reviews

1 review

narrator56

6y ago

7.0

I watched this documentary because of my long term interest in the history of the British Monarchy. I have always appreciated King George VII because he overcame a lot to become such a worthy king. He had to change his way of living as he had long been sure he was not in the direct line of succession. When that unlikely sequence of events occurred to place the crown on his head, he had to both eme...