Christian Bale doesn’t wear tights, a mask or cape in his latest film, “Rescue Dawn,” but his character is no less heroic than Batman. Bale, currently filming the next Batman movie, “The Dark Knight,” ...

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 ...

Rick Blaine’s reason for coming to arid Casablanca (“for the waters”) makes as much sense as Dieter Dengler’s explanation for ending up in southeast Asia shackled and tortured. “I only wanted to fly,” ...

The war film is now streaming on Amazon Prime and is based on a true story.

“Little Dieter Needs to Fly is not a great Werner Herzog film, but because it’s a good Werner Herzog film, it’s of greater interest than almost anything else out there at the moment.” So began my ...

Choosing July 4 as the opening date for Werner Herzog’s Rescue Dawn was a strange move on MGM’s part. It’s a clever choice, in that Independence Day was the date that Navy pilot Dieter Dengler ...

Toward the end of World War II, a little German boy named Dieter Dengler looked out a second-story window of his house in the Black Forest and saw an American fighter plane skim past him, almost close ...

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 ...

When Navy bomber pilot Dieter Dengler turned up alive, six months after being shot down and taken captive in Laos in 1966, Bruce Henderson was there to greet the plane that delivered him back to his ...

Directed by Werner Herzog. Starring Christian Bale and Steve Zahn. Rated 14A. Opens Friday, July 13, at the Cinemark Tinseltown Early in Rescue Dawn, the true story of a U.S. navy flier's capture and ...

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, ...