WWI

Condor’s Nest

By Alex Saveliev | March 2023

You have to be in the right mood to watch a film like writer-director Phil Blattenberger’s exploitative war actioner Condor’s Nest. Making up…

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You have to be in the right mood to watch a film like writer-director Phil Blattenberger's exploitative war actioner Condor's Nest. Making up for...

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NOW IN THEATERS! Don't read the official synopsis or logline for director Adrian Langley's Bunker. Why? Because it's a spoiler. The film, written by...

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SFFILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! Terence Davies' Benediction is the tragic story of famed poet Siegfried Sassoon. As World War I raged on, Sassoon (Jack...

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The Scottish drama The Road Dance, based on a novel by John MacKay, is set in the wild, craggy cliffs of the Outer Hebrides islands at the beginning of...

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Set in the heart of World War I, Blizzard Of Souls (aka The Rifleman) follows sixteen-year-old Arturs Vanags (Oto Brantevics), who enlists in a Latvian...

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In Farewell Waltz, writer/director Kaine Levy pays tribute to Walter Tull, the first black WWI officer in the British Army. Tull is represented in the...

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In April 1917, during World War I in the trenches of northern France, two British soldiers, Schofield (George MacKay) and Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman), are...

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World War I is a subject with a sizable amount of exploratory material, but I feel there could always be more movies made on the conflict. With so many...

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What happens when you give Lord of the Rings guru Peter Jackson hundreds of hours of World War I footage and ask him to pull together a documentary about...