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Movie Trailers / CL-TV Originals Detached Defiance focuses on WWII exploits

Posted By on Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:18 PM

By Matt Brunson

The landmark 1970s TV miniseries Holocaust and the 2002 theatrical release The Grey Zone both touched upon the topic, but Edward Zwick's Defiance might be the first celluloid outing to focus exclusively on the efforts of Jews to violently oppose their Nazi oppressors during World War II. Certainly, it's an overdue entry in the long history of Hollywood Holocaust flicks, but it's a shame that such an intriguing story didn't receive a more distinguished rendering. Read the rest of this review here.

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