While there certainly were heroes on that terrible day, those stories were not what interested British director Stuart Cooper when he set out to make his own D-Day film, 1975’s Overlord. Instead, ...

Their exploits, and the regiment's name, featured in the 1962 film The Longest Day, which tells the story of the Normandy landings. Movie-goers heard actor Richard Todd, a D-Day veteran who played ...

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the ...