Belgium's home movie-makers brought their cameras out of hiding 40 years ago as the advancing allied armies ended Nazi domination.
Many risked their lives to record their own liberation - the frantic departure of German troops by horse and farm cart - then the rejoicing and the revenge.
For the first time a fascinating record of the liberation has been compiled from these amateur black and white films: sniper attacks on the departing Germans; the arrival of the first British tank in Brussels; the delirious welcome by the Belgian girls
(some 2,000 British troops later married, settling in Flanders); the arrest and summary punishment of collaborators - women having their heads shaved in public, their breasts daubed with swastikas; the horror of mock burials.
Both liberators and liberated, and a collaborator with the Germans, recall their part in that September in Belgium. Cameraman TONY POOLE Sound SIMON PARMENTER VT editor KEN PIMENTA
Editor ELWYN PARRY JONES Producer NICK WELLS
(Made with the co-operation of BRT Belgium)