The Good War Revisited

The Good War Revisited

9 Episodes

With time, the rationales for war give way to the reality it leaves behind. In some countries, it took over a decade for filmmakers to be able to look back after World War II.

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The Good War Revisited

9 Episodes

  • Introducing the Good War Revisited
    12:56
    Introducing the Good War Revisited
    Episode 1

    Introducing the Good War Revisited

    Episode 1

  • Foreign Correspondent
    2:00:31
    Foreign Correspondent
    Episode 2

    Foreign Correspondent

    Episode 2

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1940 • United States
    Starring Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall

    In 1940, Alfred Hitchcock made his official transition from the British film industry to Hollywood. And it was quite a year: his first two American movies, REBECCA and FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT, w...

  • Rome Open City
    1:43:23
    Rome Open City
    Episode 3

    Rome Open City

    Episode 3

    Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1945 • Italy
    Starring Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero

    This was Roberto Rossellini’s revelation, a harrowing drama about the Nazi occupation of Rome and the brave few who struggled against it. Though told with more melodramatic flair than the films t...

  • No Regrets for Our Youth
    1:50:42
    No Regrets for Our Youth
    Episode 4

    No Regrets for Our Youth

    Episode 4

    Directed by Akira Kurosawa • 1946 • Japan

    In Akira Kurosawa's first film after the end of World War II, future beloved Ozu regular Setsuko Hara gives an astonishing performance as Yukie, the only female protagonist in Kurosawa's body of work and one of his strongest heroes. Transforming hersel...

  • Night and Fog
    33:03
    Night and Fog
    Episode 5

    Night and Fog

    Episode 5

    Directed by Alain Resnais • 1955 • France

    Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek in NIGHT AND FOG (NUIT ET BROUILLARD), one of the first cinematic reflections on the Holocaust. Juxtaposing...

  • Kanal
    1:36:55
    Kanal
    Episode 6

    Kanal

    Episode 6

    Directed by Andrzej Wajda • 1957 • Poland
    Starring Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczyslaw Glinski

    “Watch them closely, for these are the last hours of their lives,” announces a narrator, foretelling the tragedy that unfolds as a war-ravaged company of Home Army resistance fighters tries to...

  • The Cranes Are Flying
    1:36:54
    The Cranes Are Flying
    Episode 7

    The Cranes Are Flying

    Episode 7

    Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov • 1957 • Soviet Union
    Starring Tatiana Samoilova, Alexei Batalov, Vasily Merkuryev

    This landmark film by the virtuosic Mikhail Kalatozov was heralded as a revelation in the post-Stalin Soviet Union and the international cinema community alike. It tells the story of ...

  • The Bridge
    1:43:11
    The Bridge
    Episode 8

    The Bridge

    Episode 8

    Directed by Bernhard Wicki • 1959 • West Germany
    Starring Karl Michael Balzer, Folker Bohnet, Michael Hinz

    Bernhard Wicki’s astonishing THE BRIDGE was the first major antiwar film to come out of Germany after World War II, as well as the nation’s first postwar film to be widely shown internation...

  • Overlord
    1:23:07
    Overlord
    Episode 9

    Overlord

    Episode 9

    Directed by Stuart Cooper • 1975 • United Kingdom
    Starring Brian Stirner, Davyd Harries, Nicholas Ball

    Seamlessly interweaving archival war footage with a fictional narrative, this immersive account of one twenty-year-old’s journey from basic training to the front lines of D-day brings to life a...

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