First Run Features presents the "Extraordinary" (Andrea Mitchell, MSNBC) film
SUNKEN ROADS Three Generations After D-Day
Now Available on Streaming & DVD!
"There have been many documentaries about WWII, yet there is something aboutSunken Roadsthat is different, special, meaningful," writes film critic Matthew Pejkovic.
Don McCarthy was 20 years old on D-Day, when his infantry division landed on Omaha Beach. Don and the other veterans who survived D-Day will someday soon have passed into memory and legend. This realization inspires 20-year-old filmmaker Charlotte Juergens to join Don and seven other D-day vets on a journey to France - a commemorative pilgrimage to Omaha Beach for the 70th anniversary of the invasion.
With 100% on Rotten
Tomatoes, first-time filmmaker Charlotte Juergens brought a female lens to the male-dominated field of military history and made a "cinematic gem" (KPFK 90.7 FM).
"The film is extraordinary!" - Andrea Mitchell, MSNBC
"Manages to capture an innate gentleness and twinkly-eyed mischief in all of these men...Sunken Roads brings a hugely personal touch to such a massive moment in history." - JumpCut (UK)
"A disarmingly sweet film." - Saturday Evening Post
"Juergens’ filmmaking style is classic cinema verite: the cinema of truth. There is no artifice. There are no special effects. She’s never intrusive. She lets her subjects control what the lens and microphone will discover. Their faces are iconic." - Niagara Gazette
"Sunken Roads is an unconventional war documentary, and all the better for its verite approach, which offers a retelling of a history-changing event that is highly personal, often touching and replete with insights into the realities of battle and the true cost of war." - Jim Schembri, Journalist, Critic & Author
Charlotte is a documentary filmmaker, archival producer, and history scholar from Brooklyn, NY. Sunken Roads: Three Generations After D-Day is her first feature-length film. Charlotte’s experience as an archival researcher includes two years at NBC News Archives, where she collaborated with documentarians and curators to research and license archival footage for films and exhibitions. Her independent archival work ranges from the Oscar-nominated short documentaryJoe’s Violin to the Connecticut State Library’s Remembering World War I centennial commemoration project. She holds degrees in History from Yale and the University of Chicago and started her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 2021.
