Eighty years on from World War II witness the heroic D-Day Normandy landings onwards through the Liberation of Paris in this critically acclaimed story of the filmmakers who immortalized the terrible events of that fateful summer of 1944 with historic photos and film.

This powerful French made documentary (in English) follows four key players John Ford, the celebrated Hollywood film director (Stage Coach, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance), who was employed by the Field Photographic Branch of the Office of Strategic Services, the intelligence-gathering forerunner of the CIA. George Stevens, who made pictures starring Fred Astaire and Cary Grant and who won Academy awards for best director twice in the 1950s – for Giant and A Place in the Sun – was with Gen Dwight D Eisenhower’s Special Coverage Unit. Jack H. Lieb was a filmmaker and Correspondent for newsreel company News of the Day. Sgt Richard Taylor was a combat photographer with the 165th Signal Photographic Company of the US army Signal Corps. Interviews include George Stevens, Jr, son of the Hollywood producer, Eisenhower's Granddaughter, Susan Eisenhower, Jack H. Lieb's Grandson (and Columbia Maryland Film Festival Producer) Robert Neal Marshall, as well as Richard Taylor's daughter Jennifer Taylor Rossel.

From the UK Journal THE GUARDIAN Filmmakers On The Frontline "takes us back with scintillating immediacy. It’s an awesome reminder of the power of a camera – that world-changing events are all the more so if someone is on hand to hit “record”, but that images that become essential could so easily not exist if the film-maker were not present and alert at the crucial time. As one of the historian contributors to the programme puts it, describing Taylor being mindful enough to put aside his own near-death experience and compose his shot: “Whatever he does in that moment will be for ever.”