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The most striking aspect of the commemorative events marking the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings on 6 June 2019 was the testimony of the veterans who participated in the conflict and who spoke eloquently and movingly about the events of 6 June 1944.

These interviews should be compulsory viewing so people understand the courage and sacrifice of a generation of men and women who displayed the “unconquerable resolve” the Queen spoke about during her speech in Portsmouth.

The film world has, of course, brought us many depictions of the Normandy landings and the subsequent battles. You will find a number of those titles in this list of the 20 greatest Second World War films.

These 20 movies only scratch the surface of the countless number made about the momentous event, but remind us of the horrors and sacrifices made during the devastating global conflict.

Scroll through the gallery below to see the 20 greatest war films:...

This article contains spoilers for Better Call Saul season 6.

Wait a minute, the Better Call Saul midseason premiere is here already? It feels like just yesterday that Jimmy McGill a.k.a. Saul Goodman returned for the final season of the Breaking Bad prequel. Yes, these six weeks since the April 18 premiere have flown by and now we’re on the verge of Better Call Saul season 6 episode 7 “Plan and Execution.”

This won’t be the final ever episode of Better Call Saul. The series is set to begin its final batch of six episodes this summer, beginning July 11. But “Plan and Execution” will be both the first and only midseason finale of the series run and the long-awaited culmination of Jimmy and Kim’s devious plan for Howard Hamlin. With all that in store for audiences, take a moment to find out when episode 7 will air and catch up...

This article contains spoilers for Better Call Saul season 6.

There are cons and then there are long cons.

Ever since Jimmy McGill a.k.a. Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) and Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) resolved to frame their rival Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian) for “something unforgivable” in the Better Call Saul season 5 finale, fans have eagerly awaited the arrival of that plan. As it turns out, however, revenge is a dish best served slowly and deliberately.

Throughout the first six episodes of the show’s sixth and final season, Jimmy and Kim have laid the groundwork for something major to happen to Howard. In the season’s first few episodes, the married couple successfully got Howard’s business partner Cliff Main (Ed Begley Jr.) to suspect that the hotshot lawyer may be abusing cocaine. But that’s just a soupçon of what’s really to come. In “Axe and Grind,...

Bia goes from wearing her jewelry at the bodega to shopping near Big Ben as she brings her own flair to the drill rap style of the U.K. as she’s joined by J. Cole on “London,” out Thursday.

“We really wanted to capture, celebrate and highlight London culture, while staying authentic to who we are,” the Afro-Latina rap star tells Rolling Stone. “I definitely got in my London accent bag and people actually tell me it’s really good.”

Bia lives a bougie lifestyle in the track’s video as she goes shopping,...

"Saving Private Ryan" earned Steven Spielberg his second Academy Award for best director, and deservedly so. It's one of the greatest war movies of all time. Even those who weren't enamored of the overall film back in 1998 had to concede that its depiction of the D-Day landing on Omaha Beach in Normandy during World War II was an impressive technical feat.

Given the visceral impact of that sequence, you might be surprised to learn that Spielberg did not storyboard it or plan out elaborate shot lists for it beforehand. He also won the DGA (Director's Guild of America) Award for "Saving Private Ryan," and years later an issue...

The post The Impressive Story of How Saving Private Ryan's D-Day Sequence Was Shot appeared first on /Film.

Exclusive: Ridley Scott and Steven Knight are teaming for Roads to Freedom, a 10-episode epic that will tell the story of World War II from several international perspectives, based on Sir Antony Beevor’s books.

The intention is to tell the story using fresh and unique perspectives. While most Hollywood war films have focused on the American and British effort, Roads to Freedom will portray the brutal realities from multiple viewpoints, with characters not only from the U.S. and UK but also from Russia, Germany, France and other countries across the globe. That includes women, and children struggling to survive. The emphasis is on humanity, the characters bound together by one dramatic story. Some of the story lines will be discomforting, but heroic, and the race between East and West to capture Berlin will shed light on what became the foundations of the Cold War.

Scott plans to direct...

In today’s bulletin, Olivia Colman leads the cast of BBC’s pantomime “Cinderella”; season 3 of “Das Boot” commences production; Discovery Plus orders a Dutch adaptation of ITV Studios format “Sex Tape”; and Amazon India reveals Hindi-language anthology “Unpaused.”

Olivia Colman (“The Crown”) and Anya Taylor-Joy (“The Queen’s Gambit”) will headline a virtual version of popular Christmas pantomime “Cinderella,” on BBC Two.

“Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime,” is executive produced by Richard Curtis (“Love Actually”). Colman will make her pantomime debut as the fairy godmother while Taylor-Joy plays the title role. The cast also includes Guz Khan (“Man Like Mobeen”), Tom Hollander (“The Night Manager”), Helena Bonham Carter (“The Crown”), Rege-Jean Page (“Roots”), Jimmy Akingbola (“Rev”) Daisy May and Charlie Cooper (“This Country”).

The show is written by the Dawson Brothers, based on an original script by Ben Crocker, and directed by Matt Lipsey for Crook Productions. It airs on the BBC Dec.

Actor Chandan Roy Sanyal visited actor Irrfan Khan's resting place in the city, and says that he took a piece of his former co-star back along with his blessings.

Chandan and Irrfan had starred together in the 2013 film "D-Day" and "Jazbaa", which released in 2015.

Was missing irrfan since yesterday, beating myself for not having gone to his tomb for 4 months. Today i went ,there he was resting alone with no-one around with plants. In silence. I left him some Rajnigandha and took a piece of him back with his blessings. So long #IrrfanKhan pic.twitter.com/3xzoAS7zzZ

— Chandan Roy Sanyal (@IamRoySanyal) September 20, 2020

Sharing photos of Irrfan's grave in Versova burial ground, Chandan tweeted, "Was missing irrfan since yesterday, beating myself for not having gone to his tomb for 4 months. Today i went ,there he was resting alone with no-one around with plants. In silence. I left him some...

With two-thirds of leadership is female, Emmay Entertainment has taken the gender mandate further. For a production house where two-thirds its leadership is female, Emmay Entertainment has taken the gender mandate further.

Founded in partnership with filmmaker Nikkhil Advani, producers Madhu Bhojwani and Monisha Advani realized that in its ninth year, the company?s body of work has reflected agnostic genres from real life thrillers like Batla House, Dday, Airlift to mass dramas like Satyameva Jayate And Marjaavaan.

Conscious of dialing up the volume on content that represents women in a stronger, positive and empowered manner, they realized the answer was not just in the story; for that, they needed the right storytellers.

The company has proudly signed four strong women directors with diverse film grammar and yet an aligned agenda - Inclusivity. These filmmakers include Kaashvie Nair, Madhumita (critically acclaimed director of the award winning Tamil feature film Kd...

Arjun Kapoor and Rakul Preet are teaming up for the first time for a untitled family dramedy being produced by T-Series, Emmay Entertainment and Ja Entertainment. Produced by Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Monisha Advani, Madhu Bhojwani, Nikkhil Advani and John Abraham the film will go on floors this month.

“It is a coming-of-age, cross-border love story, beautifully written by Anuja Chauhan, Amitosh Nagpal and Kaashvie. It will be shot extensively in Punjab and Los Angeles and will feature Arjun and Rakul in never-seen-before avatars. We will be locking the title and the release date soon,” informs producer Nikhil Advani.

Kaashvie Nair, who has earlier assisted Nikkhil on his sports-drama Patiala House and the 2013 action thriller D-Day and co-directed the TV series Pow Bandi Yuddh Ke, will be making her feature film debut as a director with this one. She is the daughter of Shashilal K Nair, who has directed films...

Netflix will show “Greatest Events of World War Two in Colour” in the U.S. and internationally after snapping up rights to the documentary series. The series brings a new perspective to the conflict with color footage of key events such as D-Day, the war in the Pacific, and the horrors of Hiroshima.

Alan Griffiths’ U.K. indie World Media Rights made the doc with Germany’s Zdf Enterprises. The latter distributes and struck the Netflix deal, which covers 190 countries.

Following on from Wmr’s earlier “World War Two in HD Colour,” which was narrated by Robert Powell, the new series uses the same colorization techniques to bring archive footage to life. It has has rare library footage from Japan and Russia, among other locations, much of it never seen before.

Alan Griffiths, CEO of World Media Rights, said: ‘We’re thrilled that Netflix is bringing ‘Greatest Events of World...

The BBC’s Natural History Unit to lead a mass walk-out.

UK broadcasting union Bectu and the BBC’s Natural History Unit are among the organisations supporting screen industries involvement in a global ’climate strike’ today (September 20).

While Bectu stopped short of endorsing strike action, it offered its endorsement of the #FilmStrikeForClimate campaign, which aims to gather members of the screen industries to show support for the climate change movement.

A Bectu statement said: “We will be using the September climate week of action to highlight our support for tougher action on carbon emissions and to create a low-carbon society.

The official trailer for Paramount’s upcoming sci-fi action/thriller Terminator: Dark Fate has arrived and you bet your bottom dollar that they opted to make it as action-packed as humanly (robotly?) possible. From intense melee-based fights to airplane disasters, along with a sinister homage to D-Day and Normandy, this iteration, which marks the return of James […]

The post Official Terminator: Dark Fate Trailer Ramps Up The Action Tenfold appeared first on Dread Central.

John Abraham has set the Box Office on fire and pleased critics and audiences alike with his new drama thriller Batla House, in UK cinemas now.

John Abraham portrays the role of officer Sanjeev Kumar Yadav during the events of Operation Batla House, which took place in 2008. Batla House is based on the real story of the controversial encounter of Indian Mujahideen terrorists eleven years ago in Delhi. Directed by Nikkhil Advani, Batla House also stars Mrunal Thakur and Nora Fatehi and is distributed in the UK by Cinestaan Film Company

You’ve recently been doing very serious films, just like Batla House. What is the reason behind you choosing such films?

My next film is a full-on comedy called Pagalpanti, which we filmed in London, relasing in November. I’m not selecting films like Batla House by design. If a script appeals to me, I pick it up. Sometimes...