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Overlord

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United Kingdom · 1975
1h 23m
Director Stuart Cooper
Starring Brian Stirner, Davyd Harries, Nicholas Ball, Julie Neesam
Genre Drama, History, War

During World War Two, a young British boy is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ahead of the infamous D-day landing. This masterful film seamlessly interweaves archival war footage and fictional narrative, serving as both a historical document and jolting, authentic portrayal of the horrors of war.

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90

The New York Times by Dana Stevens

Like its hero, who is brave without a trace of bravado, Overlord is unusually quiet and thoughtful. The scale and ambition of combat movies has usually been epic, but this one is disarmingly lyrical and subjective.

88

New York Daily News by Jack Mathews

Though made 31 years after D-Day, the dramatic scenes have the period look of a '40s movie, which links them perfectly with the stunning archival footage.

90

Village Voice by Michael Atkinson

It's still a feat of period filmmaking. More than that, Overlord's revivification of a wasteland Europe offers up a powerful whip lesson for the postwar complacent: that the waging of war, even this most romanticized of conflicts, means bringing a corpse-mountain hell to someone's home neighborhood.

100

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

Unlike "Saving Private Ryan" and other dramatizations based on D-Day, Overlord is an intimate film, one that focuses closely on Tom Beddoes (Brian Stirner), who enters the British army, goes through basic training and is one of the first ashore on D-Day. (Reviewed in 2004)

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