Overlord (1975) DVD9 The Criterion Collection
on March 14th, 2016 at 02:23
Drafted into the British army, Tom Beddows (Brian Stirner, All Creatures Great and Small) and his fellow soldiers await their mission. Their days are a mix of training and waiting, boredom and fear of the unknown. They wish the war would go away, that they could return to their parents and girlfriends. During a furlough, Tom meets a girl named Janey (Julie Neesam, The Island of Adventure) but knows he has no future with her. Whatever his mission, he feels in his gut that he won't survive. His buddies Jack (David Harries, Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness) and Arthur (Nicholas Ball, Lifeforce) have a similar sense of impending doom. None of the young men know it, but they'll be among the first troops to land in Normandy at the launch of Operation Overlord, the Allied offensive to push the Nazis out of France.
DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 | 01:23:03 | 7.27 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English (Dolby AC3, 1 ch)
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, War, History
Director: Stuart Cooper
Actors: Brian Stirner, Davyd Harries, Nicholas Ball, Julie Neesam, Sam Sewell, John Franklyn-Robbins, Stella Tanner
Disc Features:
* New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Stuart Cooper
* Audio commentary featuring Cooper and actor Brian Stirner
* Mining the Archive, a new video featuring Imperial War Museum film archivists detailing the war footage used in the film
* Capa Influences Cooper, a new photo essay featuring Cooper on photographer Robert Capa
* Cameramen at War, the British Ministry of Information’s 1943 film tribute to newsreel and service film unit cameramen
* A Test of Violence (1969), Cooper’s short film about Spanish artist Juan Genoves
* Germany Calling, a 1941 British Ministry of Information propaganda film, clips of which appear in Overlord
* Journals from two D-day soldiers, read by Brian Stirner
* Theatrical trailer
* English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing