Movies can serve as windows into the past, preserving and immortalizing pivotal global moments and personal stories, too.World War IIwas one such moment, a harrowing and unforgettable chapter in our planet's history that has been a recurring narrative backdrop in cinema.Warfilms often offer a ...
Foyle's War Michael Kitchen, Anthony Howell, Honeysuckle Weeks 9,028 votes Set amidst the tumultuous backdrop of World War II, this enthralling series features Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle, who tackles crime on the homefront in Hastings. Amid wartime strife, Foyle unravels intr...
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Traitors invites viewers back to the immediate aftermath of World War II, as the Allies begin to turn their eyes on each other. A young British woman, Feef Symonds (Emma Appleton), finds the excitement and purpose she seeks when she is seduced into spying on her own country to root out...
Special relationship: the British spies who slept their way through Washington during World War II.(The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington)(Book review)Peterson, Britt
featured subscription paid 7 michael kitchen, anthony howell, honeysuckle weeks 9,011 votes set amidst the tumultuous backdrop of world war ii, this enthralling series features chief superintendent christopher foyle, who tackles crime on the homefront in hastings. amid wartime strife, foyl...
Atonementshould be like every British film cliché rolled into one: there's a bit in a country house, a bit in World War II and a bit where there's a kitchen sink. And yetJoe Wright's adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel feels distinct and entirely its own beast. That's partly due to...
Two things are well known about Powell and Pressburger’s 1943 epic about the life of an old-fashioned ex-army officer serving in the Home Guard during World War II: Churchill disliked the whole idea of it, and may have thought it was about him, and the Blimp character, over-fed and ...
In fact, Melita Norwood was the Soviet Union’s longest-serving British spy. FromWorld War IIthrough theCold War, she stole nuclear secrets from the office where she worked as a secretary and passed them to Moscow. Norwood was coming clean because a Cambridge historian had discovered her espio...
There is the Elizabethan spy, whose loyalties and responsibilities were sometimes ambiguous; there is the nineteenth century spy, who would have denied being a spy at all; and the Second World War spy, who operated in a complex network of agencies and alliances....