Overlord — France
The 1975 British film blends archival D-Day footage with the fictional story of a young soldier's journey from conscription to the beaches of Normandy — one of the most haunting anti-war films ever made.
Stuart Cooper's Overlord is unique in weaving real Imperial War Museum archival footage of training, bombing and D-Day itself with its fictional drama. The film follows 'Tom Beddows' through the banal machinery of war — medical examinations, training, waiting — until his death on the beach, making the loss feel both inevitable and completely avoidable.