A 12-year-old scout on the Eastern Front; Tarkovsky's first film and the dream sequences.
A Home Army soldier ordered to kill a communist on the last day of the war; Wajda and Cybulski.
A woman waits for a soldier who will not return; the Soviet film that won the Palme d'Or.
A Navy SEAL platoon in Ramadi in 2006, reconstructed in real time from memory; Garland and Ray Mendoza.
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 Hitler Youth boy with an imaginary Hitler played by Taika Waititi hides a Jewish girl.
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.
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.
Melville's French Resistance as a grey, unglamorous business of betrayals.
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.
Peter O'Toole crosses the Nefud in 70mm; the desert epic every other desert epic quotes.
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.
French and German colonists in 1915 Africa learn there is a war and stage their own.
Oskar stops growing at three and drums through the rise of the Nazis in Danzig.
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.
Eight Italian soldiers are forgotten on a Greek island for three years of the war.
An English family through Dunkirk and the Blitz, made to bring America into the war.
Rick, Ilsa, the letters of transit and the most quoted script ever written.
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