Underplayed Gems

Operation Vittles (1948)

Operation Vittles poster
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
15 min
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This film shows the Berlin Airlift, where U.S. planes brought supplies to the city. It documents the efforts to keep people fed and warm during a blockade.

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What happens

Operation Vittles is a 1948 American short documentary film about the Berlin Airlift. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. The film was preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in conjunction with the UCLA Film and Television Archive, in 2013. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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