Category: Movies
Toons on the March — How Hollywood Animators Turned Their Characters Loose on the Axis
“Most cartoons in the wartime genre were quickly pulled from circulation. In fact, few born after the 1945 ever saw any of them.” DO YOU REMEMBER time Daffy Duck gave a Nazi the hot foot?…
‘Life Goes On’ – The Unfinished Nazi War Movie That History Forgot
“The completed footage mysteriously vanished in the chaos of the Third Reich’s final days making Life Goes On perhaps the greatest lost artifact of Nazi Germany.” FOR GERMANY, 1944 was a dark year indeed. News from…
‘Let There Be Light’ — The Wartime PTSD Film the U.S. Army Didn’t Want You to See
“Huston’s wish was to let America see and understand the fragile emotional state of many returning vets.” U.S. ARMY DOCTORS in the Second World War didn’t use the term “post-traumatic stress disorder,” but they knew…
Coming Attractions – New War Flicks Set to Explode onto Screens
Regular readers of this page will certainly be interested in a string of new international films that we’re hoping might shed some new light onto some past (and recent) conflicts. Here are some of the…
Psych Ops — Meet the Top Secret “Ghost Army” of WW2
On April 1, we told you about some of the most famous wartime deceptions in history from the legendary Trojan horse to dummy cannons called Quaker guns. What we didn’t tell you about was the…
MHN judges the best court martial movies
IS THE RIGID discipline and unquestioned obedience of the military a necessary evil in wartime or is it the breeding ground for the worst sorts of injustice? A number of memorable films about courts martial have tried to…
