It was supposed to be a "routine" bombing mission, but it becomes a lot less routine when the squadron crosses over into Laos: Dieter Dengler's plane is brought down by anti-aircraft fire. Though he ...

Nothing if not appropriate for summer blockbuster season, Werner Herzog’s latest feature, based on his 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly, offers a suitably fantastic tale of war, freedom and ...

Conveyer of ecstatic truths and filmmaker extraordinaire Werner Herzog’s latest is Rescue Dawn, an action-drama based on U.S. pilot Dieter Dengler’s harrowing survival struggle after being shot down ...

Just when it seemed Independence Day might be the exclusive province of Michael Bay’s Transformers, MGM rushes in with Rescue Dawn. Nothing if not appropriate, Werner Herzog’s latest feature, based on ...

Now in its second season, “History’s Great Escapes With Morgan Freeman” (9 p.m., History, TV-14) recalls a legendary break that inspired two memorable films. Shot down over Laos in 1966, German-born ...

This is the second movie that director Werner Herzog has made about a remarkable hero. “Rescue Dawn” is the true story of Dieter Dengler, a Navy pilot who escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp during ...

The canon of great war films is so full -- from "All Quiet on the Western Front" to "Apocalypse Now" -- that yet another cinematic tale of embattled derring-do raises the inevitable question: Is there ...

As abruptly as it had begun, the threat by North Viet Nam to put captured American airmen on trial as “war criminals” was lifted. Last week, in soothing messages, President Ho Chi Minh explained that ...

Nothing if not appropriate for summer blockbuster season, Werner Herzog’s latest feature, based on his 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly, offers a suitably fantastic tale of war, freedom, ...