{"id":95965,"date":"2025-06-05T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=95965"},"modified":"2025-06-05T09:32:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T13:32:22","slug":"d-day-and-the-battle-of-normandy-on-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/06\/05\/d-day-and-the-battle-of-normandy-on-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"D-Day and the Battle of Normandy on screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aZ_FPcJrv5k?si=_y1kPCsOiq5FqnZZ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Adrian Goldsworthy. Historian and Novelist<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 4 Jun 2025<\/p>\n<p>Following on from the video about tank battles on screen, we look at the coverage of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy in movie and television dramas. This will be posted two days before the 81st anniversary of D-Day. As usual, this is a little about how good they are as drama and more about the historical background.<\/p>\n<p>00.00 Introduction<br \/>\n02.50 <em>Churchill<\/em><br \/>\n11.38 &#8220;Men on a mission&#8221; movies INTRO<br \/>\n16.45 <em>Female Agents<\/em><br \/>\n20.20 <em>The Dirty Dozen<\/em><br \/>\n32.06 <em>The Big Red One<\/em><br \/>\n38.10 <em>D Day: The Sixth of June<\/em><br \/>\n41.58 <em>Patton<\/em><br \/>\n46.00 <em>Night of the Generals<\/em><br \/>\n47.48 <em>Breakthrough<\/em> (1950)<br \/>\n49.36 <em>Breakthrough<\/em> (1971)<br \/>\n50.24 <em>Pathfinders<\/em><br \/>\n57.48 <em>Overlord<\/em><br \/>\n01.00.00 <em>Storming Juno<\/em><br \/>\n01.04.48 <em>My Way<\/em><br \/>\n01.12.12 <em>They were not divided<\/em><br \/>\n01.17.24 <em>Band of Brothers<\/em><br \/>\n01.51.00 <em>Saving Private Ryan<\/em><br \/>\n02.33.45 <em>The Longest Day<\/em><br \/>\n03.00.48 Conclusion and the &#8220;Ones that got away&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the discussion of the Pegasus Bridge project:<br \/>\n   \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I3r5w0O9YzI&#038;t=1375s\" target=\"_blank\">Fighting On Film Podcast: Pegasus Bridge S&#8230;<\/a>  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Goldsworthy. Historian and Novelist Published 4 Jun 2025 Following on from the video about tank battles on screen, we look at the coverage of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy in movie and television dramas. This will be posted two days before the 81st anniversary of D-Day. As usual, this is a little about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1117,1118,7,28,13,230],"tags":[1566,974,1103,572,122,1245,690],"class_list":["post-95965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-france","category-germany","category-history","category-media","category-usa","category-ww2","tag-adriangoldsworthy","tag-d-day","tag-infantry","tag-leadership","tag-movies","tag-normandy","tag-specialforces"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-oXP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95965"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95977,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95965\/revisions\/95977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}