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Rosie the Reviewer

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A Dutch-Canadian WW2 media podcast

WW2 films and series, checked against history

We're Sam and Maartje. Every week we watch a WWII film, series, documentary or read a book, then dig into what history tells us. We give you the context you didn't know you were missing! New episode every Friday.

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21 Oct 2026

Ep 132 – A Small Light – Miep Gies at Boiling Point (Part Two)

A Small Light (2023), episodes 4 to 6: Miep Gies keeps the annex going while the war closes in. We hope for a good outcome.

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21 Oct 2026

Ep 132 – A Small Light – Miep Gies at Boiling Point (Part Two)

A Small Light (2023), episodes 4 to 6: Miep Gies keeps the annex going while the war closes in. We hope for a good outcome.

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17 Oct 2026

Ep 131 – A Small Light – The Story of Anne Frank’s Helper Miep Gies (Part One)

A Small Light (2023), Part One: Miep Gies kept the Frank family hidden for more than two years. Occupied Amsterdam, the Secret Annex and the woman behind it.

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9 Oct 2026

Ep 130 – Oro, Plata, Mata – Class War During the Japanese Invasion of the Philippines

Oro, Plata, Mata (1982): two rich Filipino families sit out the Japanese invasion on their country estate. It goes about as well as you'd expect.

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2 Oct 2026

Ep 129 – Trial on the Road – The Soviet Film That Was Banned For 15 Years

Trial on the Road (1971): a banned Soviet war drama gets the Rosie treatment. Collaboration, partisans, and the censors who kept it on the shelf.

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Women in WW2

SOE agents, nurses, war correspondents and the home front: the films and series about women's war.

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WW2 in the Pacific

From Pearl Harbor to the island battles and the prisoner-of-war camps, on screen and in the history books.

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SAS Rogue Heroes

Every season review, plus the military adviser, actors and costume designer who joined us.

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Eighth Air Force

Twelve O'Clock High, Memphis Belle and Masters of the Air: the bomber crews over Europe, checked against history.

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The Netherlands in WW2

The Hunger Winter, hiding Jewish families, Black Book and Arnhem: the Dutch war on screen.

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Hanks and Spielberg Series

Band of Brothers, The Pacific and Masters of the Air, plus the people who made them.

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The Holocaust on Screen

Son of Saul, Schindler's List, The Pianist and more: what we thought, and whose story each film really tells.

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Who we've talked to

Alongside our reviews, we sit down with the people who make WWII film and TV, and the historians who know the real story.

Be our guest

Bruce McKenna · creator of The Pacific

Bobby Schofield · actor, SAS Rogue Heroes

Scott Gibson · actor, The Pacific

Corin Silva · actor, SAS Rogue Heroes

Bailey Brook and Kai Alexander · actors, Masters of the Air

Clare Mulley · historian and biographer

Ben Simmons · military adviser, SAS Rogue Heroes

Terry Herfield · costume supervisor, SAS Rogue Heroes

Tony Rushmer · author, SAS: Duty Before Glory

Samuel Clowes Huneke · historian, I Will Not Abandon You

Robert B. O'Connor · author, Jeep Show

Matt Hartman · author, Other Than Honorable

Rabbit Holes

Longer reads on the history behind the episodes.

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the duality of evil

“When the Nazis Have Feelings”, Why We Keep Redeeming Faber

Why do WWII films and series keep redeeming Nazis like Faber? What it means when a redemption arc softens the people behind

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The Real Women of SOE’s F Section: Beyond a Call to Spy

Who were Virginia Hall, Noor Inayat Khan and Vera Atkins? The real women of SOE F Section behind A Call to Spy,

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Is WWII Suited for Satire? How Inglourious Basterds, Jojo Rabbit, and Life Is Beautiful Make the Case

Can you tell a WWII story through satire? We look at how Inglourious Basterds, Jojo Rabbit and Life Is Beautiful try it,

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