Category: Movies
How to Win a War in Three Easy Steps – A Selection of the Best (and Worst) Army Training Films
“Most of them are mind-numbingly utilitarian; others are unintentionally hilarious.” IT’S NOT OFTEN that an army training film gets a nod from the Oscars. But that’s just what happened in 1944 when a War Department…
‘Lancaster’ — New Film Tells the Story of the Iconic RAF Bomber and the Last Surviving Vets Who Flew Them
“At its heart it’s a story of how ordinary young men found the courage and resilience to take to the air, night after night, to strike at the heart of the enemy.” LANCASTER, a 2002…
The Great Escape – How the Story of a POW Breakout Became One of Hollywood’s Most Iconic War Films
“It can be illuminating to unpack the process by which what ‘really happened’ in 1944 became a fictional film in 1963.” By Dana Polan I first saw The Great Escape at my local drive-in in…
A Nazi Titanic Film? – The Third Reich’s Outrageous Take on History’s Most Famous Maritime Disaster
“Titanic cost Berlin an estimated 4 million Reichsmarks (roughly equal to $180 million today) making it one of the most expensive films of the 20th Century.” FOR MORE THAN a century, the RMS Titanic has been…
The First Wartime Newsreels — A Collection of the Earliest Battles Captured on Film
“Amazingly, many of these early wartime newsreels have survived and are freely available online today.” (Originally published Nov. 14, 2012) EARLY PHOTOGRAPHERS immortalized conflicts like the Crimean War, the American Civil War, and the Franco…
The Civil War in VR – Immersive Online Experience Puts Viewers in the Heat of Battle
“It’s one thing to read about the terror of battle, but a very different thing to live through it.” THE DEADLIEST CONFLICT in U.S. history is being reimagined for the 21st Century, thanks to VR…
