Tag: WW2

Mariano Garcia - 20-07-2024

Mariano Garcia remembers three very different movies that used the biggest conflict known to mankind as a backdrop and a device for change [Read More...]

Redmond Bacon - 06-08-2022

Dictators collide in this legendary Russian director's late period animation, equal parts beguiling and compelling — live from Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]

Redmond Bacon - 23-05-2022

This exhaustive archival documentary asks if the price of winning a war is ever worth the cost — live from Cannes Film Festival! [Read More...]

Jeremy Clarke - 14-09-2021

Most of the perpetrators of the Holocaust were never prosecuted: this documentary attempts to understand why not – out in cinemas on Friday, October 1st, the 75th anniversary of the end of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg [Read More...]

Jack Hawkins - 08-04-2020

Vaclav Marhoul's passionate adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski's Holocaust novel is a brutal meditation on the cyclical nature of prejudice and cruelty - in cinemas on Friday, September 11th [Read More...]

Jeremy Clarke - 07-01-2020

Standing against evil. A married Austrian farmer conscripted as a soldier for the German army in WW2 is imprisoned for refusing to sign the standard oath of allegiance to Hitler - in cinemas from Friday, January 17th [Read More...]

Jeremy Clarke - 02-07-2019

German boy wishes to become an artist, but his desire is affected by the events of WW2 and its aftermath, in possibly the best narrative piece you will see this year - now available on VoD [Read More...]

Jeremy Clarke - 03-04-2019

The (not-so-) beautiful game. A WW2 PoW who becomes Manchester City’s goalkeeper is faced with anti-German prejudice both on and off the pitch - in cinemas from Friday, April 5th [Read More...]

Ben Flanagan - 02-01-2019

Survival epic about lone survivor of a Norwegian resistance boat during WW2 uses devices of mainstream war genre to convincing results - in cinemas and also on VoD on Friday, January 4th. [Read More...]

Jeremy Clarke - 03-09-2018

With the British RAF being decimated in the Battle of Britain, its squadron of Polish fliers turn the tables on the Germans - in cinemas from Friday 7th September [Read More...]

Jeremy Clarke - 18-07-2017

Dunkirk is a film miracle: read Jeremy Clarke's verdict of what he describes as "the likely film of the year" and a gauge of "British conformism, value judgments and prejudice" - on Amazon Prime on Thursday, April 1st [Read More...]