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The Choral (2025)

The Choral (2025)

The Choral is one of those British historical dramas that feels like a pair of well-worn slippers, a cosy sweater, and a hot cup of tea on a drizzly...

Linda
1917 (2019)

1917 (2019)

1917 is effectively a feature length stunt. As the camera follows two young British World War I soldiers from their camp to the trenches to trudging across a field...

Linda
The Promise (2016)

The Promise (2016)

Movies have always had the powerful ability to not only entertain, but to inform. Movies can bring attention to little-acknowledged moments of history, whether good or bad, by telling...

Linda
The Water Diviner

The Water Diviner

Directed by and starring Russell Crowe, The Water Diviner is an ambitious film that incorporates elements of romance, adventure, tragedy, action, and drama. You could simply call it a...

Jennifer
War Horse

War Horse

The novel by Michael Morpurgo is set during the First World War and told from the horse’s point of view. The live-theater incarnation features a glorious mechanical horse puppet...

Vickie
The Wipers Times

The Wipers Times

Even after a century, it is surprising how many great stories can be mined from World War I. It is now truly in the past, as there are (most...

Linda
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World War I is honored in new DVD box set from Warner Bros.

This summer marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I, or the Great War, as it was known at the time. It was a modern war...

Linda
My Boy Jack

My Boy Jack

Young Harry Potter gets to stretch his legs in this made-for-TV historical drama, and redeems himself quite nicely, I must say. In fact, except for the initial jolt of...

Linda
The Big Parade (1925)

The Big Parade (1925)

If it weren’t for the fact that The Big Parade came out in 1925, four years before the first Oscar was awarded, it would probably now be included as...

Linda
Cavalcade (1933)

Cavalcade (1933)

There are many Best Picture winners, true classics from Golden Age of Hollywood, that stand the test of time, like Gone With the Wind, It Happened One Night, or...

Linda
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

The story follows a group of young Germans who, swept up in a tide of patriotism, join the military to fight for the fatherland in World War I. It...

Linda
A Very Long Engagement (Un long dimanche de fiançailles)

A Very Long Engagement (Un long dimanche de fiançailles)

Though I am often swayed and a bit star-struck when a director I admire—in this case Jean-Pierre Jeunet (City of Lost Children, Amélie)—is presenting his own film, as was...

Linda