The Making of a Bridge Too Far

Arts, War Documentary hosted by Burt Reynolds and James Coburn, published by MGM in 2002 - English narration



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An epic film that re-creates in stunning detail one of the most disastrous battles of World War II, "A Bridge Too Far" is a spectacular war picture. Painstakingly recreated on actual battlefield locations and boasting a remarkable cast that includes Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, Sir Laurence Olivier and Robert Redford, "A Bridge Too Far" accurately recaptures the monumental scope, excitement and danger behind one of biggest military gambles in history. In September 1944, flush with success after the Normandy Invasion, the Allies confidently launched Operation Market Garden, a wild scheme intended to put an early end to World War II by invading Germany and smashing the Reich' war plants. However, a combination of battlefield politics, faulty intelligence, bad luck and worse weather led to disaster.
Richard Attenborough directs this star-studded account of the failed 1944 Arnhem assault. The story follows the events of Operation Market Garden, a plot that was intended to allow the Allies access to the German lines to seize control of bridges in the occupied Netherlands. The cast includes Dirk Bogarde as Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning, James Caan as Staff Sergeant Eddie Dohun, Robert Redford as Major Julian Cook and Sean Connery as Major General Roy Urquart. The screenplay is by William Goldman ('Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid', 'All the President's Men').

2)  A Distant Battle: Memories of Operation Market Garden
"A Distant Battle: Memories of Operation Market-Garden", a 60th Anniversary featurette. Operation Market Garden saw 30,000 British and American airborne troops flown behind enemy lines to capture the eight bridges that spanned the network of canals and rivers on the Dutch/German border. In all, about 1,800 American paratroops died in Holland. For the British, of the 10,000 who jumped into Holland on Sept. 17, only 2,400 were able to leave. The Germans captured roughly 6,000, many of them wounded, and killed about 1,400.
The Market Garden survivors are given a second forum to share their memories in the mini-documentary "A Distant Battle." Lending a human scale to what was an epic loss of life, this is inevitably gut-wrenching viewing.

MGM Home Entertainment Inc., 2002 (17min.)

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Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L4
Video Bitrate: 2 175 Kbps
Video Resolution: 748x572
Display Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Frames Per Second: 25.000 fps
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 224 kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: english
RunTime Per Part: 16 min - 43 min
Number Of Parts: 3
Part Size: 293 MB - 754 MB
Source: DVD
Encoded by: DocFreak08

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