Rosie the Reviewer: a WW2 movies and shows podcast

This week on Rosie the Reviewer, we’re heading to the beaches of postwar Denmark with Land of Mine (2015), a Danish film about a young German POW crew tasked with clearing a mine-affected beach and the Danish sergeant who oversees the process. It’s tense, visually striking, and explores trauma, anger, humanity and innocence. A movie about what comes after.

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This week on Rosie the Reviewer, we’re tackling The Sound of Music (1965), directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. On the surface, it’s a sweeping musical about love, family, and catchy songs you’ve known since childhood. But watch it through a World War II lens, and it's surprisingly sharp.
We revisit the Von Trapps’ romance, the Anschluss, and the film’s portrayal of Austrian opposition to Nazism.

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In this episode of Rosie the Reviewer, we discuss I Was Monty’s Double (1958), a British WWII film based on M.E. Clifton James' memoir. The film tells the almost unbelievable story of an actor recruited to impersonate Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery in the lead-up to D-Day, as part of a wider Allied deception effort. Clifton James plays himself, and Monty. How any of this was true, we don't know, because it really is stranger than fiction.
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In this episode of Rosie the Reviewer, we discuss Miracle of the White Stallions (1963), a Disney live-action film inspired by the real rescue of the Lipizzaner horses of the Spanish Riding School at the end of World War II.
Set in the war’s final months in Austria and Czechoslovakia, the film offers a very Disney take on Operation Cowboy, the joint effort to save the horses as the Third Reich collapsed.
Joined by our friend Alora, we explore why the real history is more compelling than the film, and why this extraordinary rescue deserves a modern retelling.
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In this episode of Rosie the Reviewer, we discuss Windtalkers (2002), a World War II film inspired by the real Navajo Code Talkers who served in the Pacific theatre. Set primarily during the Battle of Saipan, the film follows Navajo Marines using their language as an unbreakable military code. Unfortunately, the main character is white. Why?
Still, we're happy to talk about Code Talkers.
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