On August 19, 1944, the French Résistance in Paris launched an open uprising against the German occupation garrison—the prelude to the liberation of the city, which lasted until August 25. Jack Lieb’s color footage shows the spontaneous events on the streets of the city at a time when the Allied forces under General Eisenhower and the Free French troops under General Leclerc were already advancing toward Paris. Despite Hitler’s order to destroy the city, the German city commandant General Dietrich von Choltitz ultimately capitulated without reducing Paris to rubble and ashes. In Lieb’s film, the sequence appears immediately after the Normandy hinterland and marks the dramatic climax of the Western Allied advance in the summer of 1944.