Is Paris Burning?
The book is a classic, dramatized account of the liberation of Paris in 1944, creating a mosaic of exciting individual stories in the shadow of great historical events. The movie…
Godzilla Minus One
After World War II, former kamikaze pilot Koichi Shikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki) finds a family just as he’s drawn into a battle against Godzilla. Rarely has any of the 36 predecessors…
The Arctic Convoy
In 1942, the crew of a Norwegian cargo ship that’s part of a convoy headed to Murmansk are forced to make tough decisions as they are targeted by German submarines…
Ice Cold in Alex
In 1941, a group of British soldiers and nurses try to cross a North African desert in an ambulance, welcoming a South African officer (Anthony Quayle) who may have ulterior…
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
During the London Blitz, three children are evacuated to a small village where they’re staying with the eccentric Eglantine Price (Angela Lansbury), a woman who turns out to be a…
Masters of the Air
Following the success of Band of Brothers and The Pacific, this limited series focuses on young American pilots flying missions over Europe during World War II, facing intense resistance from…
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
In 1969, Henry Jones (Harrison Ford) is about to retire when his goddaughter (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) suddenly appears, reminding him of a mission in 1944 when he fought Nazis over Archimedes’s…
Ivan’s Childhood: Dreams of Mother
Nikolai Burlyayev. Photo: Mosfilm Sometimes you wonder whatever happened to a successful child actor. In far too many cases, their lives didn’t turn out so great, perhaps haunted by what…
A Christmas Tale
Karl-Bertil (Simon Larsson), the 14-year-old son of a wealthy department store owner (Jonas Karlsson), idolizes Robin Hood and is inspired to steal Christmas gifts and secretly distribute them in a…
Hiroshima Mon Amour: Prisoners of War
Emmanuelle Riva and Eiji Okada. Photo: Argos Films Another one of those classics that I wasn’t quite prepared for when I was studying film, but which had a much more…