Christmas past, Christmas present: how secular Britain found new ways to celebrate the season
The census shows the UK is now a minority Christian country – but inventive blends of the pagan and pious still bring us together in deep midwinter
April 2020
My favourite film aged 12
My favourite film aged 12: Where Eagles Dare
Continuing our series in which writers revisit childhood movie passions, we find out if a war film from a pre-greenscreen era holds up in the digital age
October 2018
‘Broadsword Calling Danny Boy’ by Geoff Dyer review – on Where Eagles Dare
A mini-celebration of the cult film has some funny and brilliant sentences about Clint Eastwood and his fellow heroes destined for a Nazi castle in the Alps
July 2014
Why are we so obsessed with films about the second world war?
Andrew Pulver: The events they depict happened decades ago and they're often historically dubious. Yet second world war films are more in fashion than ever. Why can't Hollywood get enough?
October 2010
The 25 best action and war films of all time
Where Eagles Dare: No 24 best action and war film of all time
Brian G Hutton, 1968
December 2009
Geoff Dyer on Where Eagles Dare
'I keep waiting for the day when Where Eagles Dare begins to pall. In fact, the opposite seems to be happening'
June 2009
Politics blog
Does David Cameron watch too many war films?
Andrew Sparrow: Could Cameron's penchant for performing dramatic acts of leadership – not to mention his Euroscepticism – stem from his repeated viewing of films such as Where Eagles Dare?
September 2005
Adaptation of the week
I capture the castle
Adaptation of the week: Brian G Hutton's Where Eagles Dare (1968)
