John Ford filmed the battle from the roof of a power station and was wounded doing it; eighteen minutes of 16mm colour.
The Soviet account of the counter-offensive that stopped the Wehrmacht outside Moscow, re-cut for American cinemas.
Six weeks with an American platoon in Vietnam, filmed by Pierre Schoendoerffer, who had been a prisoner at Dien Bien Phu.
Peter Davis on Vietnam, cutting between the men who ordered the war and the people it was fought on.
The British account of El Alamein, cut from footage shot by cameramen who went forward with the infantry.
An Afghan taxi driver dies in American custody at Bagram, and Alex Gibney follows the policy that killed him.
The Iliad as a summer blockbuster, with Pitt as an Achilles who fights like a dancer.
A Polish survivor in post-war Brooklyn, and the decision on the ramp at Auschwitz she cannot say out loud.
A Vietnam volunteer comes home paralysed and turns against the war that sent him.
The 54th Massachusetts, the first Black regiment of the Civil War, marching to Fort Wagner.
An armed forces radio DJ in 1965 Saigon, improvising his way past the censors.
A smuggler, a fisherman and a journalist chase a pink diamond through the Sierra Leone civil war.
Two Napoleonic officers keep meeting to fight over an insult neither can remember; Scott's first feature.
A blacksmith becomes a knight and holds Jerusalem against Saladin; watch the director’s cut, not the release.
Austerlitz and Waterloo hung on a marriage; Phoenix plays him as a sulk.
Demi Moore shaves her head to get through SEAL selection as a senator’s test case.
Eight of the single-player campaigns, from the 2003 Normandy landings to the 2019 reboot.
Caesar hunts a colonel who has put apes in a labour camp; Andy Serkis in performance capture from end to end.
Two musicians on an island are overtaken by a civil war they had ignored.
Robert McNamara's eleven lessons on Vietnam and Cuba; Errol Morris's Interrotron interview.
AP journalists inside the besieged city in 2022; Ukraine's first Oscar.
The Marines from Guadalcanal to Okinawa; the harder companion to Band of Brothers.
A Korean War field hospital for eleven seasons; the finale is still the most watched episode ever.
A station at a wormhole and the Dominion War; the Trek that did serialised drama first.
Fifty years of Yugoslavia in a cellar with a brass band; Kusturica's second Palme d'Or.
Two brothers in the Irish War of Independence and the civil war after; Loach's Palme d'Or.
A Resistance prisoner plans his escape from Montluc in real detail; Bresson's truest film.
A lie in 1935 and the Dunkirk beach in one five-minute take.
A ghost in an orphanage during the Spanish Civil War; del Toro's companion to Pan's Labyrinth.
A Home Army soldier ordered to kill a communist on the last day of the war; Wajda and Cybulski.
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