Two-time Emmy Award-Winning Actor Jeff Daniels (The Newsroom, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Gettysburg, Steve Jobs, Tears of Endearment, Dumb and Dumber) will narrate  an upcoming documentary film for the World War II Foundation focused on the tragic WWII story of the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane.

On June 10, 1944, 643 inhabitants of Oradour and nearby residents were massacred by a unit of soldiers from the second SS Das Reich division. It was payback for local French resistance activities in the region. The men in the village were shot. The women and children were taken to the local church and burned alive. There were just seven survivors of the massacre, the last passing away earlier this year.

The tragedy occurred just after the D-Day landings in Normandy, France, and symbolized some of the war's most severe Nazi barbarism. Later French President Charles de Gaulle ordered the village to be preserved as it was on June 10, 1944, as a memorial to those who suffered under the hands of the over 200 SS troops ordered to destroy the town. The youngest victim of the German atrocity was two months old.

Today, the preserved ruins of Oradour-sur-Glane bear deep physical and emotional scars, and the route through the village streets is accompanied by plaques, which allow visitors to return to June 10, 1944, and visualize the story of the tragic day.

Daniels joins a list of World War II Foundation narrators that includes Tom Brokaw, Kevin Bacon, Dan Aykroyd, Gary Sinise, Tom Selleck, Jane Lynch, Matthew Broderick, Darius Rucker, Luke Bryan, Greg Kinnear, Jim Nantz, Bill Belichick, Damian Lewis, Jon Seda, Jason Beghe, David McCallum, Liev Schreiber, Kyle Chandler, DB Sweeney, Tim McCarver, and Dale Dye.

This film will be the 37th documentary produced by the World War II Foundation for global airing on American Public Television/PBS.

World War II Foundation documentary films rank in the top-5 of most requested programs nationally by PBS and Public Television stations.