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Overlord
The film set in 1944 on D-Day. Tom is a young boy enters the world of war in the British Army. He must undergo terrible days of training and witnesses violent death on the beaches, which obsesses him.
14 December 1924, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
4 January 1912, London, England, UK
31 January 1937, Porthcawl, Bridgend, Wales, UK
4 August 1948, Crosby, Merseyside, England, UK
June 27, 2016
A glimpse of both the inner life of the soldier waiting for combat, and the literal reality of the most devastating war the world has ever seen.June 03, 2006
A majestic, somber work about war.June 29, 2006
The film plays like a 1950's B-movie with artistic pretensions.October 05, 2006
An unknown classic.July 19, 2009
A film that slipped through the cracks.July 13, 2006
Overlord, a prize-winning entry in the 1975 Berlin Film Festival, deserves to join the pantheon of essential World War II combat movies.July 14, 2006
The overriding themes of the film are never broadly stated but are subtly revealed, and the horror and reality of war are quietly played out on both the human and panoramic levels with disturbing effect.July 11, 2006
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.June 02, 2006
Cooper gives it the right understated, unheroic feel.July 14, 2006
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.May 19, 2014
[...] Overlord's vision of war is still unlike that of any other fiction feature: more jarring, and more awe-inspiring.