A new film dramatises the rescue during WW2 of hundreds of British POWs from the Lisbon Maru, a Japanese cargo liner. The story has not been widely recounted – until now.

Back in 2023, the American epic Oppenheimer (2023) hit cinemas in a rare event that got people talking all summer. After the middling response to Christopher Nolan’s previous film, Tenet, in 2020, ...