1965 · war · wwii · armor
The Battle of the Bulge
Directed by Ken Annakin2h 49m1965
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.
Our read: The Battle of the Bulge (1965) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded war · wwii · armor entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured war / wwii, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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