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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.
4 August 1948, Crosby, Merseyside, England, UK
1 January 1926, London, England, UK
31 January 1937, Porthcawl, Bridgend, Wales, UK
4 January 1912, London, England, UK
14 December 1924, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
11 April 1946, Leamington, Warwickshire, England, UK
July 19, 2009
A film that slipped through the cracks.
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.
June 02, 2006
Cooper gives it the right understated, unheroic feel.
May 19, 2014
[...] Overlord's vision of war is still unlike that of any other fiction feature: more jarring, and more awe-inspiring.
June 29, 2006
The film plays like a 1950's B-movie with artistic pretensions.
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.
October 05, 2006
An unknown classic.
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.
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.
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.
June 03, 2006
A majestic, somber work about war.