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The Impossible Job (1994) Graham Taylor, England and the Greatest Football Documentary Ever!
Episode 50
A World Cup Special for our 50th episode: we take look at Channel 4's extraordinary 1994 film The Impossible Job which forever immortalised by Graham…
8 hours ago
Michael (2026) The Michael Jackson Movie Controversy: What Was Left Out and Does it Matter?
Episode 49
What did they change and why did they change it? Does it matter and shouldn't we all just shut up and enjoy the hit parade of 'Michael Jackson the Ea…
2 weeks ago
The Secret Agent (2025) the Meaning, the Ending, the CRUCIAL Historical Context & the Hairy Leg!!
Episode 48
In this episode of Historical Movies, we unpack and explain The Secret Agent (2025) — breaking down its plot, characters, themes, and ending, while e…
4 weeks ago
Das Boot (1981) U-Boat Engineering, WWII History, Moral Complexity the Best Submarine Movie Ever!
Episode 47
Wolfgang Petersen’s Das Boot (1981) is widely regarded as one of the greatest submarine films ever made: a claustrophobic, technically obsessive port…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Fitzcarraldo (1982) Is Werner Herzog’s ‘Masterpiece’ Overrated? Plus Klaus Kinski and the Production from HELL!
Episode 46
Fitzcarraldo (1982), directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski, is one of the most infamous productions in film history — a movie about obs…
2 months ago
The Crying Game (1992) THAT Twist and why The Troubles is the perfect backdrop
Episode 45
The Crying Game (1992), written and directed by Neil Jordan and starring Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Forest Whitaker and Jaye Davidson, became o…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Extra Episode: The Guns of Navarone (1961) was so good Alistair MacLean changed the book it was based on!
Episode 44
An Extra few minutes discussing what we didn't get around to covering in the main episode.
📩 Stormed an island lately? Got thoughts on wartime ethics …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Guns of Navarone (1961) The Greatest Commando Romp Ever was Supposed to be an Anti-War Movie
Episode 44
The Guns of Navarone (1961) - the greatest commando movie ever made - was, despite the swashbuckling adventure and high body-count, conceived as an a…
3 months ago
Eddington (2025) — What is this Movie all About? Politics, Pandemic & Paranoia
Episode 43
We dissect the provocative 2025 film Eddington, written and directed by Ari Aster — the auteur behind Hereditary and Midsommar. Set in a fictional Ne…
3 months, 1 week ago
Thirteen Days (2000) — The Cuban Missile Crisis Movie with the Wrong Hero (feat. Shane Connolly)
Episode 42
The Cold War comes to life in Thirteen Days (2000), directed by Roger Donaldson and starring Kevin Costner as advisor Kenneth O’Donnell during the Cu…
3 months, 3 weeks ago