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1917
The movie hits theaters on Christmas Day.
SMITHSONIANMAG.COM | Dec. 20, 2019, 8 a.m.
The new World War I drama from director Sam Mendes, 1917, unfolds in real-time, tracking a pair of British soldiers as they cross the Western Front on a desperate rescue mission. Seemingly filmed in one continuous take, the 117-minute epic has garnered accolades for its cinematography and innovative approach to a potentially formulaic genre.
Although the movie’s plot is evocative of Saving Private Ryan—both follow soldiers sent on “long journeys through perilous, death-strewn landscapes,” writes Todd McCarthy for the Hollywood Reporter—its tone is closer to Dunkirk, which also relied on a non-linear narrative structure to build a sense of urgency.
or we're caught in a time loop
18th May » World War I: The Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the President of the United States the power of conscription.
21st May » The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5 million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches
15th October » World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Netherlands or Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for espionage known as spying for the German Empire.
23rd October » Lenin calls for the October Revolution.
24th November » In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 9 members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.
12th December » In Nebraska, Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Girls and Boys Town known as Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.
18th December » The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution named Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition in the United States or Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.
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