One of the greatest moments in Canadian military history was their part in the Allied attack on D-Day. The Canadians were to storm a section of the French beaches at Normandy code-named Juno and did so with success but great losses. Storming Juno is a short (55 minutes) television docudrama that attempts on a small budget and scale to tell this story and is relatively successful. Although not long enough for us to get attached to the three main real-life characters (whose stories are based on actual letters and interviews), we nonetheless get a very good idea of the difficulties faced by these brave men and the battle scenes, effectively filmed in southern Ontario on Lake Huron, evoke the much larger budgeted Saving Private Ryan and Band Of Brothers. The added bonus of a half-hour’s worth of interviews with Juno survivors is what ultimately won me over. Recommended.
7/10
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