Ranking among great films depicting World War II, is the 1977 wide-screen, epic action feature “A Bridge Too Far”, directed by Richard Attenborough, based on the book by historian Cornelius Ryan, filmed on location in the Netherlands, starring an ensemble cast with Anthony Hopkins, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, James Caan, Edward Fox, Gene Hackman, Robert Redford, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Olivier and Ryan O’Neal, now streaming for free on Tubi:
‘…September 1944, after the ‘Allied’ forces won the ‘Battle of Normandy’, ‘General Browning’, with the approval of ‘Field Marshal Montgomery’, drafts a plan known as ‘Operation Market Garden’ to land 35,000 paratroopers and glider men 300 miles from their airfields in England, behind enemy lines in the Netherlands over a 64 mile corridor with the ultimate goal of crossing the Rhine River…”
