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The film set in 1944 on D-Day. Tom is a young boy enters the world of war in the British Army. He must undergo terrible days of training and witnesses violent death on the beaches, which obsesses him.
It's still a feat of period filmmaking. More than that, Overlord's revivification of a wasteland Europe offers up a powerful whip lesson for the postwar complacent.
July 11, 2006
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The film plays like a 1950's B-movie with artistic pretensions.
Overlord, a prize-winning entry in the 1975 Berlin Film Festival, deserves to join the pantheon of essential World War II combat movies.
July 13, 2006
TV Guide
The overriding themes of the film are never broadly stated but are subtly revealed, and the horror and reality of war are quietly played out on both the human and panoramic levels with disturbing effect.
Though made 31 years after D-Day, the dramatic scenes have the period look of a '40s movie, which links them perfectly with the stunning archival footage.