Brian Stirner, Davyd Harries, Nicholas Ball, Julie Neesam, Sam Sewell
Quiet Tom leaves home and enters the world of war in the British Army with its anxious days of marching and training and waiting only to meet his quick and violent death on the beaches at Normandy on ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: April 17, 2007
Stats: 77 reviews
expertly blends revelatory archival footage into the fictional narrative. the archival footage shows the lose of the individual in the grand scheme of war, and the nightmare in represents. the fictional narrative focuses on the tension among the protagonist and his fellow soldier...( read more)
Clever interweaving of fictional story and archival footage which works better as a documentary than a drama.
An interesting premise. The period leading up to D-Day through the eyes of a young soldier, mixed with actual newsreel footage in between. I've always found anything to do with World World Two interesting so I thought the pieces of newsreel were fascinating. At times it's pretty ...( read more)
This recently aired on TCM but learned about it through a documentary titled Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession. Watch this film the first time on DVD and it blew me away technically. It also has the most realistic, up-close battle scenes at Normandy 23 years prior to Saving Pr...( read more)
well umn just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a good movie 2 watch...its got a good cast of actors/actressess throughout this movie...i think that brian stimer, davyd harries, nicholas ball, julie neesam, sam sewell play good roles/parts throughout this movie....( read more)
Mixes archival footage of World War 2, with fictional story of a young man getting ready to go off to war. The archival footage, serves as the young man's thoughts and fears about going into battle. Scenes of air raids and bombings are spliced togeth...(read more) er with the sce...( read more)
Thought this film was incredible... the way they mixed actual WWII footage with the shots they filmed was just amazing. A fanstastic piece of work here! I Recommend highly.
Overlord, a prize-winning entry in the 1975 Berlin Film Festival, deserves to join the pantheon of essential World War II combat movies.
Combines its newsreel and fictional footage so effectively that it has a greater impact than all fiction, or all documentary, could have achieved. full review
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