Category: Movies
Speed Wars – New Doc Shines Light on WW2’s Pharmacological Arms Race
“British, American and German military researchers raced to discover and mass-distribute super drugs that would create ferocious and tireless fighting men.” IT’S THE HISTORY they never taught us about in school. A new PBS documentary…
‘The Cold Blue’ – New Documentary Dazzles with Digitally Restored Wartime Bomber Footage
“Audiences will be transfixed as B-17 pilots and gunners survive flak barrages, enemy fighters and sub-zero temperatures during some of the most harrowing bombing missions of the war.” IT’S THE EUROPEAN air war like you’ve…
Top Gun — Nine Things Hollywood Got Wrong About the U.S. Navy’s Fighter Weapons School
“While the Navy’s graduate-level fighter pilot training program was a Big Thing in 1986, it was anything but that when it was created in 1969.” By Dwight Jon Zimmerman WHEN THE BLOCKBUSTER Top Gun, starring…
‘Agents Unknown’ – Filmmaker Reveals America’s Secret Spy War in Vietnam
“To understand the war better, it’s necessary to know why combat decisions were made, and how those decisions were the product of good or bad intelligence.” WHY DID THE United States lose in Vietnam? Was…
The Marching Dead — World War One and the Cinematic Zombie Apocalypse
“Horror took on a new meaning after the trenches and veteran’s accounts of the savagery they had experienced.” By W. Scott Poole NOV. 11, 2018 marked 100 years since the cessation of hostilities in the…
Butcher’s Bill — Filmmaker Counts the Bloody Cost of World War Two
“Halloran tabulates the death toll suffered by the conflict’s many warring nations in a way that brings sobering new perspective to the war.” JOSEPH STALIN ONCE remarked that the death of one man is a tragedy…
