Rosie the Reviewer: a WW2 movies and shows podcast

In this episode of Rosie the Reviewer, we discuss A Hidden Life (2019), Terrence Malick's film about Franz Jägerstätter, the Austrian farmer and conscientious objector who was executed in 1943 for refusing to swear loyalty to Hitler. It's a long one, but you have to just give in to it.
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This week, we're reviewing The Land Girls (1998), David Leland's adaptation of Angela Huth's novel about three women who join the Women's Land Army and land on a Dorset farm during the Second World War. We go down a genuinely fun historical rabbit hole on Spitfire Funds and the WLA and wonder multiple times: “Girl, what are you doing!?”.
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This week on Rosie the Reviewer, we cover The Book Thief (2013), based on Markus Zusak’s bestselling novel about a girl growing up in Nazi Germany. Her foster family teaches her to read, and hides something far more dangerous beneath the floorboards. We talk about the power of storytelling while books are burning, and about the small, enormous risks this family takes to protect someone.
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In this episode of Rosie the Reviewer, we discuss The Battle of the River Plate (1956), about the first British naval battle of the Second World War. We discuss the standoff between three British/New Zealand cruisers and the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, the captured merchant captain who came to respect his German captor, and how the fight ultimately ended in a tense diplomatic standoff in neutral Montevideo.
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In this episode of Rosie the Reviewer, we discuss Come and See (1985), directed by Elem Klimov and set in German-occupied Belarus. We follow Flyora, a teenage boy who joins a partisan unit and is drawn into the systematic destruction of Belarusian villages by German forces. We talk about the film, the history of what Germany did to Belarus, and the survivor accounts that Adamovich travelled across the country to collect.
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