A woman waits for a soldier who will not return; the Soviet film that won the Palme d'Or.
An Israeli veteran reconstructs the 1982 Lebanon war in animated interviews.
A Home Army soldier ordered to kill a communist on the last day of the war; Wajda and Cybulski.
A 12-year-old scout on the Eastern Front; Tarkovsky's first film and the dream sequences.
A Hitler Youth boy with an imaginary Hitler played by Taika Waititi hides a Jewish girl.
Two soldiers cross no man's land to stop an attack, in what looks like one continuous shot.
War photographers drive to a besieged Washington in a near-future America; Alex Garland.
A Navy SEAL platoon in Ramadi in 2006, reconstructed in real time from memory; Garland and Ray Mendoza.
A conscientious objector saves 75 men at Okinawa without a rifle; Mel Gibson's war film.
Hitler's last twelve days in the bunker, with Bruno Ganz; the meme and the masterpiece.
A Belarusian boy watches the SS burn villages in 1943; the most harrowing war film made.
Szpilman surviving the Warsaw ghetto and the ruins; Polanski's own history.
Melville's French Resistance as a grey, unglamorous business of betrayals.
The Algerian uprising filmed like a newsreel; the Pentagon screened it in 2003.
Five hours in a U-boat in 1941; the claustrophobia has never been bettered.
A Bosnian and a Serb trapped in a trench with a third man lying on a mine.
A Sonderkommando prisoner at Auschwitz tries to bury one boy; shot in shallow focus over his shoulder.
The Marx Brothers run the country of Freedonia into war; the mirror scene.
Jewish prisoners forced to forge pounds and dollars for the Reich in Sachsenhausen.
Renoir's French officers in a German prison camp in 1916, where class matters more than nation.
Rossellini shot on the streets months after the Germans left; neorealism begins here.
Oskar stops growing at three and drums through the rise of the Nazis in Danzig.
French and German colonists in 1915 Africa learn there is a war and stage their own.
Eight Italian soldiers are forgotten on a Greek island for three years of the war.
George C. Scott in front of the flag, in the biography he refused the Oscar for.
British prisoners build a bridge for the Japanese, and a colonel forgets whose side he is on.
Peter O'Toole crosses the Nefud in 70mm; the desert epic every other desert epic quotes.
Soldiers in Hawaii in the weeks before Pearl Harbor, and the kiss in the surf.
The seven-hour Soviet Tolstoy, with the Red Army as extras at Borodino.
Rick, Ilsa, the letters of transit and the most quoted script ever written.
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