A small group of American soldiers find horror behind enemy lines on the eve of D-Day.A small group of American soldiers find horror behind enemy lines on the eve of D-Day.A small group of American soldiers find horror behind enemy lines on the eve of D-Day.
- Director
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- Billy Ray(screenplay by)
- Mark L. Smith(screenplay by)
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- Director
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- Billy Ray(screenplay by)
- Mark L. Smith(screenplay by)
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- Awards
- 2 wins & 7 nominations
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On the eve of D-Day, the 5th of June, 1944, several American paratroopers are dropped behind enemy lines to carry out a mission crucial to the invasion's success: destroy a radio tower built in a little castle of an old French town that the Third Reich uses for communication between Berlin and Normandy beaches' bunkers. Due to the intense enemy fire, the planes are shot down and most soldiers die in the landing or are killed by the Nazis' night patrols after they land. However, a private named Ed Boyce survives to find Corporal Ford, a last-minute incorporation from Italy and a veteran expert in bombs and explosives, rogue sniper Tibbet, war photographer Chase, and finally private Dawson. After they watch the killing of their superior Sergeant Eldson by a Nazi night patrol, Ford becomes leader of the group and they try to get the town with the tower in order to complete the mission. In the forest close to the town they meet Chloe, a villager who assists the soldiers in her home with her elderly aunt and little brother Paul. But the mission gets complicated when, by accident, Boyce ends up inside the Nazi radio tower, only to find horrible secret experiments with human beings that could empower a victory for Hitler and would change the fate of the world forever. With D-Day approaching, Boyce and the others begin to realize there is more going on in this Nazi-occupied village than a simple military operation. They not only have to fight against soldiers to destroy the radio tower, but also against the results of the experiments to turn the entire place to ruins. All this before dawn and Hitler gets his Third Reich of a thousand years that he promised. —Chockys
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- Stop the unstoppable.
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- Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated R for strong bloody violence, disturbing images, language, and brief sexual content
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Did you know
- TriviaOverlord's first sequence, which sees the soldiers jumping from a burning plane, was done by rigging a plane on a gimbal, actually blowing up the front, tilting it as if it were actually falling through the air, and sending stuntmen tumbling through real fire.
- GoofsDuring the credits, a mock 1940s newsreel shows a United States flag with 50 stars when Jovan Adepo is credited as Boyce. The flag had only 48 stars from 1912 until 1959.
- Alternate versionsAfter the film was given the restricted R18+ rating in Australia, Paramount Pictures decided to edit out almost 1 minute of footage to lessen the violence for the cinema version. The subsequent re-submission got the film a more accessible MA15+ rating. Although this version never ended up getting released due to Paramount Pictures changing their minds to instead give the original R18+ rated cut to cinemas.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Projector: Overlord (2018)
- SoundtracksBridging the Gap
Written by Ansel Collins (as Ansel George Collins), Nas (as Nasir Jones), Winston Riley (as Winston Delano Riley), Dave Barker, Salaam Remi (as Salaam Remi Gibbs), Olu Dara, Muddy Waters (as McKinley Morganfield), Melvin London (as Melvin R. London) and Bo Diddley (as Ellas McDaniels)
Performed by Nas feat. Olu Dara
Courtesy of Columbia Records
By arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment
Top review
Cliché movie
Terrible experience. All the possible clichés that you can imagine are there mixed with a horrible acting.
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- panados
- Nov 11, 2018
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- Also known as
- Chiến Dịch Overlord
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- Budget
- $38,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $21,704,844
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,202,108
- Nov 11, 2018
- Gross worldwide
- $41,657,844
- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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