Journey’s End – WWI Drama, 2017 Film
R. C. Sherriff, writer of such strange film scripts as The Invisible Man (1933,) based on H.G. Wells 1897 …
Tag Archives: Movies:WW I
WW I: Not What Caused it, but What It Was Like
The interest of readers in World War I seems to divide into three main categories: high-level diplomatic threats, promises and …
Theeb: A Bedouin Boy in the WWI Desert
Aimless movie wandering sometimes pays dividends. We happened into a streaming presentation of Theeb, by British-Jordanian director, Abu Nowar. Recipient of considerable …
The Water Diviner: In Galipolli Looking for Bones
Russell Crowe New Zealand/Australia’s perennial candidate for the movies’ most manly man, does a creditable job of re-visiting the trauma of …
Oh What a Lovely War! — Irony and WW I
When Richard Attenborough’s movie, Oh What A Lovely War! appeared in October, 1969 I didn’t see it. Regardless of his …
Parade’s End — Benedict Cumberbatch as England’s Last Tory
The 5 hour HBO/BBC mini-series, Parade’s End, (2012) with Benedict Cumberbatch as Christopher Tietjens, is a miracle of lossless compression, …
Looking for the Dead: Bertrand Tavernier Takes a Look at WW I
Some 350,ooo French soldiers in WW I have never been found. Is that possible? With almost one million five hundred …
Blood and Oil: The Middle East in World War One
History written in text books is one thing, (hi)stories re-told from father to son, down the line of tribes and …
Arabs in WW I
This looks like this will be very interesting, from Al Jazeera: World War One was four years of bitter conflict from …
WW I: Coming Home from the Eastern Front
Almost everything we westerners know about WW I has to do with the Western Front, the British, the French, the …
A Soldier on the Southern Front — Italy, WW I
World War I brought with it some 10 million combatant deaths, 23 million wounded. Two and one half million non combatants died from fire and …
Beneath Hill 60 — WW I: Courage and Massacre
I don’t know if the Aussies are the “best billiard players, best horsemen and best miners in the world” as …