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.
Special Features:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Stuart Cooper.
- 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.
- Journals from two D-day soldiers, read by Brian Stirner.