The King Who Fooled Hitler

In a tale of double agents and decoys, this documentary reveals, for the first time, the story of King George VI's elaborate ruse to divert German attention away from the Normandy landings in 1944.

Documentary History

Helen McCrory

(Narrator (voice))

Richard J. Aldrich

(Self - University of Warwick)

Rory Cormac

(Self - Associate Professor, Nottingham University)

King George VI of the United Kingdom

(Self (archive footage))

Neville Chamberlain

(Self (archive footage))

Winston Churchill

(Self (archive footage))

Caroline Erskine

(Self - Daughter of Sir Alan Lascelles)

Adolf Hitler

(Self - Führer und Reichskanzler (archive footage))

Dwight D. Eisenhower

(Self (archive footage))