A selection of books, films about or referencing Juno Beach and D-Day invasion
OTTAWA — A selection of films and books about the Normandy invasion:
FILMS
Storming Juno (2010): Movies mentioning Canada’s role in the D-Day landings are hard enough to come by, let alone one actually focused on Juno Beach. Storming Juno attempts the feat, focusing on a group of Canadian soldiers who land in Normandy. Described more docudrama than feature film, it includes re-enactments and interviews with some of those who were there when the landing craft ramps dropped.
D-Day: The Sixth of June (1956): The biggest invasion in history isn’t plot enough for this film, which uses it as merely the backdrop for one of those three-way wartime romances. Robert Taylor is the Yank and Richard Todd the Brit who are both in love with plucky Red Cross worker Dana Wynter. Both men end up part of the same British-American-Canadian operation that goes ashore ahead of the invasion to take out a big German gun, and only one comes back alive.