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‘The Story of Hitler’s England. What would have happened if the German Army had crossed the English Channel.’ Writer-directors Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo’s intelligent, partly-amateur 1964 black and white film by two clever, very […]
Director Claude Autant-Lara’s 1947 black and white film Le Diable au Corps [Devil in the Flesh] is a beautifully lush, erotic French World War One romantic drama, based on Raymond Raguet’s novel of adulterous passion, […]
Producer-director Ewald André Dupont’s 1929 black and white British drama Atlantic is ambitious but tragically dated, though it is of interest to buffs as a milestone as the first British all-talking picture and the first […]
A well-cast Charles Denner stars as the creepy charmer Henri Désiré Landru, in director Claude Chabrol’s 1963 real-life period serial killer thriller Landru [Bluebeard], set in France during World War One. Family man Landru, a […]
The 1936 film The Plough and the Stars is John Ford’s failed labour-of-love version of the Sean O’Casey play about the 1916 Irish rebellion, centring on Nora Clitheroe (Barbara Stanwyck)’s fight to stop her rebel […]
Director Peter Jackson’s magnificent and beautiful World War One documentary They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) is uniquely informative, evocative, moving and heart-rending, as well as a brilliant technical achievement in its incredible 3D colour […]
James Agee’s old-time all-American down-home story of angst in the American southern provinces, set during the First World War, becomes a poignant and appealing movie under careful acting and discreet but intense handling by director Alex […]