1917 
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SOURCE: NY Times
2/8/20
‘1917’ Turns a Horrific War Into an Uplifting Hero’s Journey
by Cathy Tempelsman
World War I was a disaster, but Sam Mendes’s Oscar-nominated epic paints a dangerously misleading picture of the conflict.
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1/26/20
The Film “1917” and the Allegory of the Wooden-Headed
by James Ottavio Castagnera
Viewed with one eye on this current context, “1917” can surmount its surface characterization as an exciting “war movie” to become an allegory.
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1/21/20
1917: The War Movie at Its Very Best
by Bruce Chadwick
The movie is a story within a story – the two men within the greater war
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SOURCE: BBC History Extra
1/14/20
“A staggering tour de force – but an opportunity missed”: a historian’s review of the film 1917
by Jeremy Banning
How does 1917 deal with the realities of war and what does it show about the real events of 1917 – the retreat by German forces and life in the trenches?
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