Victory to Life has four main divisions focusing, like Heart of Spain, on the medical care being given to soldiers and civilians. The first section shows daily street life in Madrid, the result of bombings, and the civilians receiving medical services for tuberculosis, shrapnel wounds, and typhus. The next section goes to the field to show medical aid being given there, followed by a military section with actual fighting. Separating the village scenes and fighting sequences is an interlude of footage of a village fiesta celebrating the opening of a American hospital. The fourth and final section of the film is the longest, featuring the main emphasis of the film, the life given through medicine.
Director: Henri Cartier-Bresson, with Herbert Kline. Produced by Frontier Films for the Centrale Sanitaire Internationale. Cinematography: Jacques Lemare. Music: Charles Koechlin. Commentary: Pierre Unik. Editing: Laura Sejour. Graphics: Griffoul. Distributed by Ciné-liberté. Length: 47 minutes. Black and white.