If you loved The Heroes of Telemark, try The Great Raid

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Theyboth carry the raw mood tag, and they sit in Action / War territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Heroes of Telemark, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The Great Raid is

You're a U.S. Army Ranger in the Philippines, 1945. You fight to reach a POW camp holding hundreds of your brothers. But the Japanese guards are many, and time is short. Dahl's film presents a brutal, if familiar, theater of war.

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