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