The Eagle Has Landed (DVD, 2001, Sensormatic)

I like this movie quite a bit. I know much about the allied side of the war, but I am also interested on the other side, what made honorable and great soldiers fight for a despicable police state. This is one of those stories. The story is about an honorable soldier who runs afoul of the authorities when he tries to save a young person from the concentration camps, he is actually put on death row, unless, he takes this mission, practially a suicide mission. So he's damned if he does and damn if he doesn't. It is surprising up to the very end. If I might have something against it, would be the inclusion of the Irish man sub-plot, which fills in the story of the enemies that England had, within and without, the conclusion to his story is mushy and ambivalent. It stars a young Michael Caine, doing his duty till the end, Donald Sutherland and Jenny Agutter and a few others round out an excellent cast. I remember seeing this movie when I was a kid, and when I found it in Ebay, at a very reasonable price, I snapped it up, and watched it with my kids, to show them that it doesn't take much to get caught up in the web of an evil empire, kinda explains why a lot of people voted Republican, but maybe that's another story.