movies Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/movies/ Mechanically-minded travel Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:54:29 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare – a new WW2 movie https://mechtraveller.com/2023/02/the-ministry-of-ungentlemanly-warfare-a-new-ww2-movie/ https://mechtraveller.com/2023/02/the-ministry-of-ungentlemanly-warfare-a-new-ww2-movie/#respond Thu, 23 Feb 2023 17:56:31 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=8697 A new war movie, The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare, is expected to be in cinemas next year. Directed and co-written by Guy Ritchie, and starring Henry Cavill, Eiza González & Henry Golding, most movie reports describe it as an action spy film. That’ll be because it’s about the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in WW2. But […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2023/02/the-ministry-of-ungentlemanly-warfare-a-new-ww2-movie/feed/ 0 The Last Hill – Possible Material for a Movie? https://mechtraveller.com/2023/02/the-last-hill-possible-material-for-a-movie/ https://mechtraveller.com/2023/02/the-last-hill-possible-material-for-a-movie/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2023 14:42:53 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=8680 The Last Hill is a new book by Robert Drury and Tom Clavin about a little-known fierce battle fought in December 1944 to capture a strategic hill in the Hürtgen Forest on Germany’s border. The 400 metre (1,315ft) steep-sided ‘Hill 400‘ lies 5 kilometres inside the German border with Belgium. The US 1st Army had […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2023/02/the-last-hill-possible-material-for-a-movie/feed/ 1 New movie in production about Lidiya Litvyak – legendary Soviet female fighter ace https://mechtraveller.com/2021/09/new-movie-in-production-about-lidiya-litvyak-legendary-soviet-female-fighter-ace/ https://mechtraveller.com/2021/09/new-movie-in-production-about-lidiya-litvyak-legendary-soviet-female-fighter-ace/#respond Mon, 20 Sep 2021 08:14:18 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=7019 This looks good! It’s a behind-the-scenes video about a new crowd-funded movie called ‘Litvyak’ about WW2 Soviet fighter pilot, Lidiya Litvyak, flight commander of the 3rd Aviation Squadron and a Hero of the Soviet Union. Before she was shot down and killed, aged just 22, on 1st Aug 1943 near the town of Orel during […]

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