Welcome to Rosie the Reviewer, a Dutch-Canadian female-led WW2 media podcast. A new episode airs every Friday!
Rosie the Reviewer is a passion project, built episode by episode. If you’d like to support what we do, you can help keep us on the air or pick up some Rosie merch. We’re working on more ways for you to get involved in the future.
In this episode, we take on the German Perspective as we discuss 2013’s Generation War with our friend Anna! This three-part limited series received praise and criticism in equal measure, and it’s a tough watch. Does it take enough risk? It certainly makes for meaningful conversation. This is episode one of two about this series, so be sure to check back for part two next week.
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Episode ten is here! In this episode, we discuss the nuances of a Dutch film called The Forgotten Battle (originally titled De Slag Om De Schelde), about the ‘forgotten’ battle for the Scheldt.
We discuss the life and accomplishments of Violette Szabo, a British agent with the SOE, through the movie Carve Her Name With Pride and the book Violette Szabo: The Life I That I Have. Does a 1958 movie still hold water?
In this episode of Rosie the Reviewer, we discuss Miracle of the White Stallions (1963), a Disney live-action film inspired by the real rescue of the Lipizzaner horses of the Spanish Riding School at the end of World War II.
Set in the war’s final months in Austria and Czechoslovakia, the film offers a very Disney take on Operation Cowboy, the joint effort to save the horses as the Third Reich collapsed.
Joined by our friend Alora, we explore why the real history is more compelling than the film, and why this extraordinary rescue deserves a modern retelling.
This week on Rosie, we get into Pressure (2026), directed by Anthony Maras and written by Maras and David Haig, based on Haig’s stage play about the 72 hours leading up to D-Day told through the eyes of meteorologist Group Captain James Stagg.
Learn more about Exercise Tiger, the Anglo-American weather forecasting standoff between Stagg and Colonel Crick, and whether Brendan Fraser and Andrew Scott were given nearly enough to do. Also, some kick-ass Kay Summersby stuff.
In this episode of Rosie the Reviewer, we are joined by historian Samuel Clowes Huneke, associate professor at George Mason University, to discuss his book I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany (2025). We explore the prosecution of Queer women in Nazi Germany, Samuel’s research and also…
Weimar Berlin’s queer culture and its suppression, the Night of the Long Knives and the weaponisation of Ernst Röhm’s sexuality. But it’s not all depressing, as you will find out if you read his book.
Buy it wherever you get your books.
Rosie the Reviewer is a passion project, built episode by episode. If you’d like to support what we do, you can help keep us on the air or pick up some Rosie merch. We’re working on more ways for you to get involved in the future.