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Battle of Britain
Last night we sat down to watch ‘The Battle of Britain‘ (which is, in my opinion, one of the last truly great British WW2 films). If buying this it is worth getting hold of the 2 disc special edition DVD as the second disc comes packed with documentaries about the difficulty of filming the thing [...]
Ice Cold in Alex
We’ve just rewatched this fantastic film on DVD, it’s probably my favourite film of all time. It seems that every moment is iconic, from Anthony Quayle holding up Katy as the rocks slowly crush, to the ad-man’s wet dream of the bar scene at the end. John Mills is fantastic in the film as Capt. [...]
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Dam Busters
Peter Jackson is to produce The DamBusters. I’m very fond of the original, and so am not sure about this, but I’m reasonably confident that it’ll be in safe hands – with almost anyone else I’d be very worried about the product. It looks like they’ll be using some materials declassified since the original film. [...]
The Holocaust was condemned in 1942
Today, in 1942, the House of Commons condemned the massacre of Jews by Germany. This is news to me, I wasn’t aware that that the holocaust was public knowledge until the end of the war. I wonder how much of this percolated through to the ‘man on the street’? Even hearing about it, I doubt [...]
Seventy Years since World War 2