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The Big Picture Netflix's movie, Narvik, explores an intriguing World War II story that you may not have heard of involving a small Norwegian town at the center of an iron ore struggle between Germany and Great Britain. Norway is the world's top producer of iron ore and Narvik, founded in 1902, is the tiny coastal port city in Norway on the coast of the Norwegian Sea that held the key to its distribution during the war.
Narvik 15 April 1940. The eyes of the world are on Narvik, a small town in northern Norway, source of the iron ore needed for Hitler's war machinery. Through two months of fierce winter warfare, Hitler is dealt his first defeat. Meanwhile, she unwittingly harbors a British operative, Konsul George L.D. Gibbs who is forced from the inn after the German occupation and sent to hole up in a tiny mountain cabin provided generously by Ingrid, free of charge. She is later blackmailed by Gibbs forcing her to provide information on the German installations in Narvik that resulted in an Allied airstrike that killed many of the townspeople.
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