World War I

Peter Jackson is making a commemorative World War I documentary

Posted 7 years ago

As a way of commemorating the hundred-year-end of The Great War, filmmaker Peter Jackson will dig deep into the archives of the BBC and London’s Imperial War Museum to create a feature-length documentary focusing on World War I. The yet-to-be-titled project will have...

Review: The Ottoman Lieutenant

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: An American nurse finds herself torn between the belief of others and her own heart, when she falls in love with a Turkish officer on the brink of WWI. REVIEW: There is so much that should work in the new...

Room’s Lenny Abrahamson to direct World War I tale The Grand Escape

Posted 9 years ago

THR is reporting that ROOM and FRANK director Lenny Abrahamson is attached to helm an adaption of the upcoming Neal Bascomb novel The Grand Escape. This will likely be Abrahamson's next movie, but Bascomb hasn't finished the book yet and...

Son of Saul’s Laszlo Nemes to direct coming-of-age thriller Sunset

Posted 9 years ago

Laszlo Nemes' World War II drama SON OF SAUL was met with critical acclaim upon its release at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, and Screen Daily is reporting that the Hungarian filmmaker has secured grant money to help fund SUNSET,...