"France Falls" is the third episode of the 1973 Thames Television documentary series The World at War. It mainly covers France from the start of the war in 1939 to June 1940. The episode starts with a panoramic shot of several of the abandoned, rusting forts of the Maginot Line, and a quoting of an old war line with an ominous new tag; "Here the guns would halt the Hun...provided the Hun came this way." Interviewees include General André Beaufre, Sir Edward Spears, Journalist and broadcaster Gordon Waterfield, General Hasso von Manteuffel and General Walter Warlimont.