World War 2 In Review

The Cold Blue | Trailer     Erik Nelson’s new film is built primarily from color 16mm images shot in the spring of 1943 by director William Wyler and his crew on 8th Air Force bombing raids over Germany and strategic locations in occupied France. Wyler shot over 15 hours of footage on a series of raids with the 91st bomber group, from which he crafted his 1943 film The Memphis Belle. From the remaining raw footage, Nelson has crafted an experience of a different kind, filtered through the spoken recollections of nine veterans, among the last survivors of the War in Europe.

"Naval Air Might at Santa Cruz". Oil painting by Robert Benney, circa 1943. Soldiers of the SS-Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Division, resting in a ditch alongside a road on the way to Pabianice, during the invasion of Poland in 1939. PzKpfw IV medium tank, Poland, September 1939. PzKpfw IV Ausf C, Poland, 1939. Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf. D development model, on approach to Warsaw, September 1939. Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf. B, both tracks being repaired, Opatow, Poland, September 1939. Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf. B, Warsaw, September 1939. German infantry cautiously advance on the outskirts of Warsaw, Poland on September 16, 1939. German soldiers, taken prisoner by the Polish army during the Nazi invasion, are shown while they were held captive in Warsaw, on October 2, 1939. SdKfz 221 armored car, Poland, 1939. Adolf Hitler salutes parading troops of the German Wehrmacht in Warsaw, Poland, on October 5, 1939 after the German invasion. Behind Hitler are, from left to right: Colonel ...