The True Glory (1945) — Restored
US National Archives
Academy Award–winning Allied documentary chronicling the campaign from D-Day to the fall of Berlin, assembled from official combat footage.
Normandy '44
Filmed Record
Archival films from June 6, 1944, preserved by the U.S. National Archives, the Imperial War Museums, and other institutions.
President Roosevelt's D-Day Prayer (June 6, 1944)
US National Archives
Original radio broadcast in which President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced the invasion of Normandy to the American people.
Normandy Invasion (1944) — U.S. Coast Guard Footage
The National WWII Museum
Combat film shot by U.S. Coast Guard cameramen aboard landing craft and transports on June 6, 1944.
D-Day Explained
Imperial War Museums
The Imperial War Museums' overview of Operation Overlord — its scale, planning, and the experience of the men who landed.
‘We Were Glad to Have Survived' — Veteran Bernard Morgan
Imperial War Museums
RAF veteran Bernard Morgan reads from the diary he kept aboard a landing craft off the Normandy coast on D-Day.
Why Did Britain Drop Aluminium Foil on D-Day?
Imperial War Museums
How RAF crews used strips of aluminium (‘window') to deceive German radar in the opening hours of the invasion.
Archive Footage of the D-Day Normandy Landings
Sky News — Archive
Compilation of contemporary newsreel and combat footage from June 1944, drawn from broadcast archives.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's D-Day Message
U.S. Army
The Supreme Commander's order of the day issued to Allied soldiers, sailors, and airmen on the eve of the invasion: 'You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade.'
The Reason Germany Failed on D-Day
Imperial War Museums
IWM curators examine the Atlantic Wall, Rommel's defensive plan, and the tactical failures that doomed the German counterattack in Normandy.
CBS Reports (1964): D-Day Plus 20 Years — Eisenhower Returns to Normandy
CBS News
Walter Cronkite walks the Normandy beaches with former President Eisenhower, who recounts the planning and execution of the invasion in his own words.
D-Day — In Their Own Words: Museum Oral Histories
The National WWII Museum
Curators from The National WWII Museum present oral history excerpts from American veterans who took part in the Normandy landings.
D-Day: Planning the Impossible
Army University Press
Army University Press documentary examining the staff work, deception operations, and logistics behind Operation Overlord.
D-Day: 'In Case of Failure' — Eisenhower's Unsent Message
Eisenhower Presidential Library
Historian Todd Arrington reads the note Eisenhower drafted to take sole responsibility if the Normandy landings failed — a message he never had to send.
D-Day in Colour — Full Documentary
Archival Color Films
Feature-length compilation of restored colour footage from the Normandy invasion, drawn from wartime Allied film archives.
Sources: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Imperial War Museums (IWM), The National WWII Museum, Sky News Archive — hosted on YouTube.