BIOGRAPHY (CBS) - GEORGE PATTON (24 Min., B&W)
The mother of all TV biography documentary series gives it's standard-setting treatment of America's boldest general of the Second World War. Narrated by Mike Wallace.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: PATTON AND THE 3RD ARMY (24 Min., B&W)
Walter Cronkite narrates events he often saw first hand as a war correspondant relevant to the historic achievements of what most analysts agree was World War Two's most successful and effective mechanized Army.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: INVASION OF SICILY (24 Min., B&W)
Chronicles the Allied liberation of the first of Italy's regions and the extraordinary and controversial events that occurred under Patton's command there.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: BATTLE OF THE BULGE (24 Min., B&W)
It was Patton and his 3rd Army's near miraculous relief of the beleaguered American forces fighting the advancing Germans in the bastion of Bastogne that stands out as one of his greatest military achievements among very many, as this documentary makes a point of making clear.