I just got Stuart Cooper's Overlord on dvd from Criterion. This 1975 classic has a bunch added special features as usual! Overlord seamlessly interweaves archival war footage and a fictional narrative, Stuart Cooper's immersive account of one 20-year-old's journey from basic training to the battle front lines at D-day brings all the terrors and isolation of war to its viewers with jolting authenticity. Overlord, impressionistically shot by Stanley Kubrick's longtime cinematographer John Alcott, is both a document of WWII and a dreamlike meditation on man's smallness in a large, incomprehensible machine.

Award:
WINNER - Silver Bear Award, Berlin International Film Festival, 1975

Review:
"Remarkable...deserves to join the pantheon of essential World War II combat movies." - NEW YORK TIMES

Special Features:
· New, restored high-definition digital transfer
· Audio commentary featuring director Stuart Cooper and actor Brian Stirner
· Mining the Archive, a new video featuring Imperial War Museum film archivists
· A new photo essay featuring Cooper on photographer Robert Capa
· Cameramen at War, the British Ministry of Information's 1943 film tribute
· Germany calling, a 1941 British Ministry of Information propaganda film
· Journals from two D-day soldiers, read by Brian Stirner
· Theatrical trailer
· English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
· PLUS: A new essay by critic Kent Jones
· A short history of the Imperial War Museum
· Excerpts from the Overlord novelization, by Cooper and Christopher Hudson