Rosie the Reviewer: a WW2 movies and shows podcast

This week on Rosie, we get into Pressure (2026), directed by Anthony Maras and written by Maras and David Haig, based on Haig's stage play about the 72 hours leading up to D-Day told through the eyes of meteorologist Group Captain James Stagg.
Learn more about Exercise Tiger, the Anglo-American weather forecasting standoff between Stagg and Colonel Crick, and whether Brendan Fraser and Andrew Scott were given nearly enough to do. Also, some kick-ass Kay Summersby stuff.
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In this episode of Rosie the Reviewer, we are joined by historian Samuel Clowes Huneke, associate professor at George Mason University, to discuss his book I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany (2025). We explore the prosecution of Queer women in Nazi Germany, Sam's research and also...
Weimar Berlin's queer culture and its suppression, the Night of the Long Knives and the weaponisation of Ernst Röhm's sexuality. But it's not all depressing, as you will find out if you read the book. Buy it on Amazon or wherever you get your books.

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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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