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Best Wishes for Tomorrow (Ashita e no yuigon) 0000-00-00 00:00:00 A new WWII based film premiers in Tokyo March 10th at the Tokyo International Film Festival. Best Wishes
for Tomorrow (Ashita e no yuigon) tells the story of the "Class B" War Crimes Trial of Lt. Gen. Tasuku Okada. Okuda ordered the execution of 38 US pilots who bailed out of ... Read more:Best Wishes
Katyn Mini Review 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I had the opportunity to watch a screener of Katyn over the weekend. I it is a shame that this movie is not being distributed in the US. I'd recommend seeing this if at all possible and hopefully it will be released on DVD at some point.
The movie begins with ...
Victory at Sea, complete series for $9.98 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The completeseries
, Victory
at Sea is getting a new release. Arriving April 15th, the complete series is available for $9.98. While I have a had a few problems with the series (mainly showing the wrong ship at the wrong time), this series is certianly important in how people understand ...
Austria’s ‘Counterfeiters’ Wins Oscar 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The Austria
n Holocaust-era drama "The Counterfeiters" won the Oscar
for best foreign language film on Sunday.The film, directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, is the first win for Austria in this category and the second Academy Award nomination
WW2 Era National Archives Footage on DVD 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The NationalArchives
has selected the CustomFlix DVD on Demand service to initially make its collection of Universal Newsreels, dating from 1929 to 1967, available on DVD to the general public for purchase on Amazon.com. Newsreels cover worldwide events in politics, entertainment, fashion, sports and technology. Historic moments in world ... Read more:Footage
The Counterfeiters opens in LA/NY February 22nd 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Nominated for Best Foreign film, The Counterfeiters opens in LA and NY tomorrow, with a wider release to follow. View the trailer at the official site.
In Nazi-era Germany, Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics) is a master counterfeiter who is arrested and thrown into a concentration camp. Once his captors notice ... Read more:February
Eye of Vichy 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Found this to be interesting:
"The Eye of Vichy" is a brilliantly chosen compilation of long forgotten film footage and newsreels produced by the Nazis and French collaborators during World War Two. From the small town of Vichy in central France, Field Marshall Petain's puppet government worked with their nazi overlords ...
The End of Downfall 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Much had been written about Downfall
(Der Untergang). Critiques have ranged from an SS officer wearing a Wehrmacht uniform to the "humanization" of Hitler. I tend to overlook occasional technical details such as uniforms or medals and find the "humanization" argument a bogus one as there is no doubt Hitler ...
Review: Cities Of The Underworld History Channel 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I've been watching this show, three WWII related episodes have centered around Berlin, Budapest, and Moscow.
The Berlin episode explored the air raid bunkers under the U-Bahn and the construction of the underground highway that was to run through "Germania". The Budapest episode discussed the Soviet siege of the city and ... Read more:Cities
, Underworld
, History
, Channel
, History Channel
Beast of Bataan coming in 2008 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Beast of Bataan, starring Anakin Skywalker (aka Hayden Christensen), William Dafoe, and William Hurt is set to hit theaters in 2008. Brief outline:
Philippines, 1945. After four long years at war, Major John Skeen is about to ship home when he receives his final assignment. At a military tribunal created by ... Read more:Beast
Cities of the Underworld: Prague Rant 0000-00-00 00:00:00 After watching the Prague
episode of Cities
of the Underworld
(History Channel), I’m really wondering what reality this series lives in. The best part of this series has been to see places that I’ve read about. In previous episodes, the inside the air raid shelters under the U-Bahn in Berlin, ...
The Second Track (Das zweite Gleis) DVD 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Coming to DVD on March 25th
The SecondTrack
, Station inspector Brock is witness to a robbery. When he fails to report one of the culprits, he experiences flashbacks to his earlier failure to take a stand against Nazi persecutions years ago. The Second Track is the only East German film ...
Sophie Scholl — The Final Days Review 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Sophie Scholl - The Final
Days (Sophie Scholl Die letzten Tage) describes the events of Scholl and her brother distributing White Rose pamphlets at the University in Munich, their arrest, interrogation, trial, and execution. The White Rose (die Weiße Rose) was a group of students that distributed pamphlets and took other non-violent methods ... Read more:Sophie
Germany, Pale Mother (Deutschland bleiche Mutter) DVD April 22 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Germany, Pale Mother (Deutschland
bleiche Mutter), this 1980 German movie is coming to DVD on April
22nd.
Synopsis:
Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a boming raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed ... Read more:Germany
Cities of the Underworld: Prague Rant 0000-00-00 00:00:00 After watching the Prague
episode of Cities
of the Underworld
(History Channel), I’m really wondering what reality this series lives in. The best part of this series has been to see places that I’ve read about. In previous episodes, the inside the air raid shelters under the U-Bahn in Berlin, ...
The Second Track (Das zweite Gleis) DVD 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Coming to DVD on March 25th
The SecondTrack
, Station inspector Brock is witness to a robbery. When he fails to report one of the culprits, he experiences flashbacks to his earlier failure to take a stand against Nazi persecutions years ago. The Second Track is the only East German film ...
Sophie Scholl — The Final Days Review 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Sophie Scholl - The Final
Days (Sophie Scholl Die letzten Tage) describes the events of Scholl and her brother distributing White Rose pamphlets at the University in Munich, their arrest, interrogation, trial, and execution. The White Rose (die Weiße Rose) was a group of students that distributed pamphlets and took other non-violent methods ... Read more:Sophie
Best Wishes for Tomorrow (Ashita e no yuigon) 0000-00-00 00:00:00 A new WWII based film premiers in Tokyo March 10th at the Tokyo International Film Festival. Best Wishes
for Tomorrow (Ashita e no yuigon) tells the story of the "Class B" War Crimes Trial of Lt. Gen. Tasuku Okada. Okuda ordered the execution of 38 US pilots who bailed out of ... Read more:Best Wishes
Katyn Mini Review 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I had the opportunity to watch a screener of Katyn over the weekend. I it is a shame that this movie is not being distributed in the US. I'd recommend seeing this if at all possible and hopefully it will be released on DVD at some point.
The movie begins with ...
Victory at Sea, complete series for $9.98 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The completeseries
, Victory
at Sea is getting a new release. Arriving April 15th, the complete series is available for $9.98. While I have a had a few problems with the series (mainly showing the wrong ship at the wrong time), this series is certianly important in how people understand ...
Austria’s ‘Counterfeiters’ Wins Oscar 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The Austria
n Holocaust-era drama "The Counterfeiters" won the Oscar
for best foreign language film on Sunday.The film, directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, is the first win for Austria in this category and the second Academy Award nomination
WW2 Era National Archives Footage on DVD 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The NationalArchives
has selected the CustomFlix DVD on Demand service to initially make its collection of Universal Newsreels, dating from 1929 to 1967, available on DVD to the general public for purchase on Amazon.com. Newsreels cover worldwide events in politics, entertainment, fashion, sports and technology. Historic moments in world ... Read more:Footage
The Counterfeiters opens in LA/NY February 22nd 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Nominated for Best Foreign film, The Counterfeiters opens in LA and NY tomorrow, with a wider release to follow. View the trailer at the official site.
In Nazi-era Germany, Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics) is a master counterfeiter who is arrested and thrown into a concentration camp. Once his captors notice ... Read more:February
Tokyo Cinema drops plans to show Yasukuni 0000-00-00 00:00:00 A Tokyo
cinema has dropped plans
to show the controversial movie Yasukuni.
The documentary is about the shrine to over 2 million Japanese war dead, including many war criminals. The Shrine often creates controversy between Japan and Asian countries who suffered under Imperial Japan.
The film will still be shown in other parts ... Read more:Cinema
Playing with the Enemy movie coming in 2009 0000-00-00 00:00:00 It was announced that the book Playing with the Enemy
will made into a movie
with a $45mil budget to be released in early 2009.
The timing if this announcement, with the coming of the baseball season is good. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who has not read it. ...
Hitler’s Family (History Channel) 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Watched Hitler
's family last night, this has been aired in the past. I found this to be a very interesting show, though it left some questions unanswered that will probably never be answered. Namely, how Hitler's brothers and sisters took advantage of the Nazis rise to power.
The discussion of the ... Read more:Family
, History
, Channel
, History Channel
Flame and Citron (Flammen og citronen) — New Movie from Denmark 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Flame & Citron, the most expensive Danish production ever made (€6,3m) to be released in Denmark
by Filmfolket in February 2008. The WWII thriller set during Danish occupation by the Germans, stars Mads Mikkelsen and Thure Lindhardt as two resistance fighters (Flame and Citron) charged with killing Danish informers and ...
HBO Mini-Series “The Pacific” in 2009 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Coming in 2009 on HBO, is the 10 hour mini-series “The Pacific
”. This series is being developed by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg (Band of Brothers).
The story is based on the experience of 3 US Marines from Guadalcanal to Okinawa. The mini series is being filmed in Australia.ShareThis
Eternal Jew (Der ewige Jude) Thoughts 0000-00-00 00:00:00 In 1940 the Fritz Hippler movie The Eternal
Jew (Der ewige Jude) was released in Germany and is today considered one of the most blatant anti-Semetic films ever made.
The movie shows Jews in the packed streets of the Warsaw Ghetto, according to the movie, their natural state. Tells of how ...
Red Baron (Der Rote Baron) German release April 10th 0000-00-00 00:00:00 A German
film about World War I fighter pilot Manfred von Richtofen is being released in Germany on April
10th. What is most interesting about this film is that it is the first major German post-1945 film that will portray a German war hero (from any war) as such. Also ... Read more:Baron
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