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Blitz – A vital fragment of the Steve McQueen saga

by Rógan Graham

A moth­er and son reunion takes place on the bomb-shat­tered streets of World War Two-era Lon­don in this sweep­ing his­tor­i­cal melodrama.

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In Retrospect
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One Life and British cinema’s nostalgia for World War Two

by Clotilde Chinnici

The past is unde­ni­ably present in con­tem­po­rary rep­re­sen­ta­tions of the British war effort, rep­re­sent­ing an obses­sion with for­mer mil­i­tary glo­ry and world influence.
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This Just In

A victimless genocide: the politics of omission in The Zone of Interest and Oppenheimer

by Maia Wyman

While Jonathan Glaz­er and Christo­pher Nolan’s World War Two-set films have been crit­i­cal­ly laud­ed, their con­struc­tion rais­es ques­tions about how we digest images of sys­tem­at­ic murder.
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In Praise Of

How Saving Private Ryan changed the war movie

by Sam Moore

Twen­ty-five years on, Steven Spiel­berg’s World War Two epic com­plete­ly rev­o­lu­tionised the way Hol­ly­wood thought about depict­ing con­flict on screen.
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Review

The Railway Children Return

by David Jenkins

It’s dimin­ish­ing returns for the World War Two-era scamps learn­ing life lessons out in the countryside.

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Two people embracing, a woman in a red dress and a man in a black suit, in a dimly lit room.
Review

Operation Mincemeat

by David Jenkins

Col­in Firth and Matthew Mac­fadyen team up to foil a Nazi plot in this like­able World War Two caper.

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Review

Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

by David Jenkins

Arthur Harari charts the remark­able sto­ry of Japan­ese sol­dier Hiroo Ono­da, who refused to sur­ren­der at the end of World War Two.

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Review

Munich: The Edge of War

by Josh Slater-Williams

Net­flix rings in the new year with an aus­tere World War Two espi­onage thriller from direc­tor Chris­t­ian Schwochow.

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Home Ents

How Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Anti-War Trilogy bridges generational trauma

by Alicia Haddick

The late Japan­ese direc­tor explores the twin nation­al dis­as­ters of 3.11 and World War Two in an epic series of films.
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Incoming

George MacKay staves off World War Two in the Munich: The Edge of War trailer

by Charles Bramesco

The lat­ter por­trays Neville Cham­ber­lain in this drama­ti­sa­tion of the 1938 Nazi appease­ment in Munich.