One Inch From Victory

• 1944
• 1 hr 8 mins

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The 68-minute wartime documentary One Inch from Victory was adroitly assembled from captured German newsreels. In showing the War from the Nazi side, the film is not only able to expose the fallacies of Goebbels' propaganda machine, but also offer combat footage heretofore unseen by American audiences. The most disturbing sequence is the funeral of Nazi "hangman" Heydrich, especially when the viewer is forearmed with the knowledge that Heydrich's assassination was the excuse for the annihilation of Lidice in Czechoslovakia. One Inch from Victory is narrated by American war correspondent Quentin Reynolds. The film was distributed stateside by New York movie-theater owner Noel Meadow.