A Walk in the Sun
In 1943, an American platoon is part of the Allied invasion of Italy, but face immediate dangers when their leader is wounded. Lewis Milestone reunited with Robert Rossen after Edge…
Mrs. Miniver: Idyll Interrupted
Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Photo: MGM When Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda, saw this movie, he was probably both disturbed and impressed. He thought it was an ingenious piece…
Midway
After the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in December, 1941, the U.S. Navy prepares for the defining battle against Japan in the Pacific. Roland Emmerich had dreamed of making a…
Nr 24
In 2008, Max Manus was a huge hit in Norway, and this film is a companion piece, another well-made portrait of the seminal figures of the resistance movement that fought…
The Six Triple Eight
In the waning days of World War II, an all-female, all-Black unit is sent to Europe on an impossible mission: making sure that millions of letters are finally delivered to…
Blitz
During the London Blitz, Rita Hanway (Saoirse Ronan) puts her young son (Elliott Heffernan) on a train headed for the countryside, but he jumps off and tries to make his…
Occupied City
This documentary had the potential to become something great. Steve McQueen adapted his Dutch wife Bianca Stigter’s book that chronicled the war years in Amsterdam, creating a comprehensive guide to…
Lee
A biography many years in the making by a woman who started out as a cinematographer and documentary filmmaker – no wonder then that the story of famous World War…
Goebbels and the Führer
A drama focusing on the relationship between Hitler and his chief propagandist, Joseph Goebbels, from the 1930s right up to their end in a Berlin bunker in 1945. In an…
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
In 1941, Prime Minister Churchill orders a team of secret agents led by Gus March-Phillipps (Henry Cavill) to destroy an Italian supply ship on a Spanish-controlled island. In Guy Ritchie’s…