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Seamlessly interweaving archival war footage and a fictional narrative, Stuart Cooper's immersive account of one twenty-year-old's journey from basic training to the front lines of D-day brings all the terrors and isolation of war to life with jolting authenticity. Overlord, impressionistically shot by Stanley Kubrick's longtime cinematographer John Alcott, is both a document of World War II and a dreamlike meditation on man's smallness in a large, incomprehensible machine.

Supplements

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

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