The film presents a welcome lesson in the importance of speaking truth to power, regardless of the pressure that results.
- Reader in Modern Political History, Loughborough University
Americans have long argued over the revolution’s lessons and legacy.
No act of royal diplomacy, however well executed, can deliver an instant reset in the US-UK relationship.
The film is an unrelenting depiction of 21st-century battle.
In The Diplomat, Britons and Americans anger, antagonise and annoy each other.
These films and TV shows explore the origins, impact and aftermath of the allied strategic gamble, 80 years on.
Veterans are rightly centered in D-day events but the speeches that invited heads of state deliver bring proceedings into the geopolitical present.
D-Day has drawn the attention of numerous filmmakers over the years. Here are ten of the best D-Day films, each showing the invasion’s prominent place in international memory.
The show explores the American role in the European air war with care and sensitivity.
The American military buildup in Britain –popularly known as the “friendly invasion” – was an unprecedented moment in British history.
Once teeming with life, many of Britain’s wartime airfields are abandoned and full of the ghostly memories.
Politicians wishing to stoke divisions invoke the Cenotaph knowing it will be a successful gambit because so many find solace in its meaning.
The film pays homage to the war generation, revels in forties nostalgia and stakes an assertive British claim to the memory of the Allied invasion.
The Diplomat suggests that if the ‘special relationship’ is to survive into a world turned topsy turvy by Brexit, Trump and war in Europe, it demands a little TLC.
Statues to divisive figures are increasingly becoming the target of protest and vandalism.
A complicated man who some would cast as a simple answer to complex times.
Red or white, it doesn’t matter what colour your poppy is if you respect the sacrifice it represents.
The alignment of Independence Day and a presidential visit to Britain makes more sense than you might think.
The latest film about Britain’s revered war leader struggles to capture the man – or give his wife the credit she deserves.
Why do alternative histories of a Nazified world again have such commercial and cultural traction?
The ties between the US and UK have long been depicted in loving terms. But with these two in charge, it can only be a marriage of convenience from now on.
Mourning a death is natural and necessary, but sometimes politics gets in the way of grief.
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