War on Film – The American Revolution
Taylor Downing reviews the latest film and television releases.
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War on Film – Churchill at War
Taylor Downing reviews the latest film and television releases.
War on Film – Riefenstahl
Taylor Downing reviews the latest film releases.
War on Film – Warfare
Taylor Downing reviews the latest film releases.
War on Film – Lee
Taylor Downing reviews the latest film releases.
War on Film – Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger (2024)
TAYLOR DOWNING reviews the latest film releases.
Fifty years of The World at War
Half a century on, the most comprehensive series ever made about the Second World War is still being shown on television channels around the globe. Taylor Downing takes a critical look.
MHM 130 Competition: win a copy of a classic 1950s film!
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War on Film – Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War
Taylor Downing reviews a new documentary.
War on Film – Pearl Harbour
Taylor Downing surveys screen depictions of Pearl Harbor in a ‘War on Film’ special.
War on film: Tunisian Victory
Talk of the war in North Africa and most Brits will think of Tobruk or El Alamein, while most Americans will think of Operation Torch, the Kasserine Pass, and Tunisia. The victory at El Alamein was presented in a powerful…
Why We Fight – The Battle of Russia
Like all the Why We Fight films, it is a highly charged, emotional account, always looking to create maximum impact.
The Secret History of Writing
This intelligent, articulate, and visually imaginative three-part BBC documentary series about five millennia of writing – shortened into two parts for US transmission as A to Z in the PBS series NOVA – is particularly welcome, and will probably be watched for many years.