Film · 1975 · Films · 1970s
Overlord
Scored from 34 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
Stuart Cooper's British film follows Tom Beddows (Brian Stirner), a mild young Englishman conscripted into the army in 1944 and put through basic training as the Allies prepare for the Normandy landings. Between drill, a camp dance and letters home, Tom is troubled by a persistent conviction that he will not come back from the invasion. Cooper intercuts the staged scenes with archival combat and home-front footage from the Imperial War Museum, with John Alcott shooting the new material in black and white to match the newsreels. It is a documentary-fiction hybrid rather than a conventional combat picture, built around one ordinary recruit inside an enormous operation.
Overlord is a 1975 drama, history and war film. The runtime is 83 minutes. It was made in the United Kingdom.
Only 34 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 36 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1970s films — 2,406 of them.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Overlord lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1970s (2,406 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 34.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
