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A podcast from The National WWII Museum analyzing how World War II has been depicted on film.
Iwo Jima's flag is up; Seth Paradin and guests make you ask why the movie feels finished.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A lively Stalag 17 discussion where camp routines, currency, and suspicion shape the history on screen.
Service on Celluloid reads Stalag 17 through the texture of captivity: winter in a German prison camp in Austria, the early Battle of the Bulge, and an escape attempt that sits beside the routines of barracks life. Seth Paradin, Kim Geis, and Dr.
A clear, thoughtful discussion of the battle and people behind Iwo Jima's famous flag image.
Flags of Our Fathers looks at the uneasy life of a battlefield image once it becomes larger than the people caught inside it. The episode follows the Marines and Navy corpsman who raised the American flag on Mount Suribachi, then shifts to the surviving flag raisers and their…
A rousing war film meets the harder campaign its screen story leaves out.
Guadalcanal Diary comes through as a rousing wartime film with a tougher campaign pressing at its edges. The 1943 story follows the initial landings, the capture of the airfield, and the routing of Japanese forces ashore, while Seth Paradin, Tyler Bamford, Kate Fitzgerald, and…
British nostalgia, ranked and cheerfully misremembered.
Oscar history, watched one nominee at a time.
Service on Celluloid examines Billy Wilder’s 1953 film Stalag 17, which depicts enlisted American Army Air Forces prisoners in an Austrian camp during 1944.
Service on Celluloid examines Clint Eastwood's 2006 film Flags of Our Fathers, which follows the Iwo Jima flag raising and the surviving servicemen sent on the seventh war bond drive.
Service On Celluloid examines how the 1943 film Guadalcanal Diary turns a campaign marked by shortages and naval defeats into wartime propaganda.
Service On Celluloid examines Sam Peckinpah’s 1977 Cross of Iron, set among a German infantry platoon retreating through the Kuban Bridgehead in 1943.
Service On Celluloid examines The Negro Soldier, a 1944 War Department documentary produced by Frank Capra and directed by Stuart Heisler.
Experts from the National WWII Museum discuss the 1977 film A Bridge Too Far, analyzing its depiction of Operation Market Garden.
Historians discuss the 2014 film Monuments Men and its portrayal of the Allied effort to recover Nazi-looted art during World War II.
Experts from the National WWII Museum discuss the 1970 film Kelly's Heroes and its depiction of World War II.
Historians from the National WWII Museum discuss the historical accuracy of the 1942 film Mrs.