Is the Bosnian war an appropriate topic for satire? Yes, when it's this scathing. In a trench between enemy lines, two soldiers — the Bosnian Ciki (Branko Djuric) and the Serb Nino (Rene Bitorajac) — face off in a microcosm of the Bosnian war. Haven't we been there? Not like this. The Bosnian documentarian Danis Tanovic has written and directed a first feature that defies glib categorization. Fierce, funny and finally devastating, Tanovic's superb film offers a timely look at the roots of civil war and acts of terrorism on both sides that can be exploited by political and media hypocrites alike.

Ciki and Nino share that trench with Cera (Filip Sovagovic), a Bosnian soldier the Serbs have booby-trapped with a spring mine that will explode at the slightest movement. Ciki and Nino must work together to keep him calm and still. The two enemies tell stories, discover they dated the same woman and find other commonalities including a passion to survive. As part of their truce, U.N. peacemakers show up in a white tank to help. But the French officer in charge, Sgt. Marchand (Georges Siatidis), is ordered not to interfere. When savvy TV reporter Jane Livingstone (Katrin Cartlidge) threatens to spark a global scandal, U.N. bigwig Col. Soft (Simon Callow) stops playing footsie with his leggy secretary in Zagreb and choppers in to defuse the situation. Though political disaster is averted, humanity is the tragic victim of war. Again. You won't forget No Man's Land — it stings.

“Is It True”

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."