The score for Seize & Secure: The Battle for La Fière is by Lauren Buchter, a New York City-based composer for film and television and an ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers) Composer to Watch. duPont-Columbia University Award-television’s equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize. Richard’s work has earned such honors as Best Historical Documentary twice at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival as well as a prestigious Alfred I. His credits include the Louisiana Public Broadcasting documentaries Louisiana: 200 Years of Statehood and Katrina Ten Years After: A Second Life, A Second Chance. The film’s screenwriter, Charles Richard, is Co-Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. La Fière is a battle for the ages, and I'm glad to finally see it getting the attention it deserves.” “This isn't just a great moment in the history of the US Army, it's a moment, I think, that should make all Americans proud.
“Beyond the operational role that La Fière played in terms of keeping the (invasion) timetable on schedule, there's another reason to study the Battle of La Fière Bridge, and that's valor,” Citino said. Mark Harmon ( NCIS, The West Wing, Chicago Hope) serves as narrator. The film also draws on historic and contemporary images and footage of the battle scene, as well as eyewitness accounts by WWII veterans who fought there. Farrell, PhD-whose past credits include the 2014 WWII film Fury-and Executive Director of the Museum’s Institute for the Study of War and Democracy and Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian Robert M. Capturing the La Fière story for the first time in documentary form, the production calls on military historian Colonel Kevin W. To mark the 75th anniversary of the Normandy invasion, the WWII Media and Education Center at The National WWII Museum has teamed with Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB) to present a new documentary, Seize & Secure: The Battle for La Fière, to premiere on June 6, 2019, on PBS. Without control of the bridge and its vital causeway, American forces coming from Utah Beach would not have been able to force their way inland.įought largely by paratroopers and glidermen from the 82nd Airborne Division, the battle to secure the bridge at La Fière is described as “probably the bloodiest small unit struggle in the experience of American arms.” Victory at La Fière cost more than 250 American lives, and yet the fateful engagement’s story is largely untold. The mortal ferocity of the four-day battle for control of the small stone bridge over the Merderet River at La Fière in Normandy is testament to the bridge’s strategic importance in the D-Day invasion of June 1944.
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