Historia Infinitus

World War I: The Great War DVD. Well I had to check this out, four disks filled with all sorts of World War I stuff by the History Channel. It ends up being a collection of shows from over the years that are mostly about the war that could have been placed in [...]

This British series seemed interesting to me when I first heard of it. It is based off the life of one of a top British secret agent, Sidney Reilly (played by Sam Neill). Reilly was one of the first and greatest agents the British had. He was supposedly the real life person [...]

Joyeux Noel is not a bad film, but it certainly did not live up to what it could have been. The film is based off some astonishing, true events that took place during the Christmas Truce of 1914, ‘based’ being the operative word. With only 116 minutes to cover the event too many [...]

The Blue Max has always been one of my favorite movies. The title and many of the characters come from a novel by Jack D. Hunter, but the story seems very different from what I’ve heard. I’ve put the novel on my summer 2009 reading list.
The film stars George Peppard as Bruno Stachel, [...]

This 1980 Australian film depicts the court-martial of Harry “Breaker” Morant, Peter Handcock, and George Witton on charges of murder towards the end of the Boer War. Some historians disagree over the accuracy of the events portrayed in the movie, but there is a distinct lack of sources of the original events to prove [...]