William Wallace, blue face paint and the Battle of Stirling without the bridge.
Three timelines converge on the beach evacuation of 1940, almost without dialogue.
The Omaha Beach landing that changed how war is filmed.
A British frigate hunts a French privateer round Cape Horn; the best sailing film there is.
RKOโs post-war explanation of Japan, written by Theodor Geisel - Dr. Seuss - before he wrote for children.
The 1989 American invasion of Panama and the civilian casualties the networks did not show.
John Ford filmed the battle from the roof of a power station and was wounded doing it; eighteen minutes of 16mm colour.
The 54th Massachusetts, the first Black regiment of the Civil War, marching to Fort Wagner.
A blacksmith becomes a knight and holds Jerusalem against Saladin; watch the directorโs cut, not the release.
Austerlitz and Waterloo hung on a marriage; Phoenix plays him as a sulk.
Two Napoleonic officers keep meeting to fight over an insult neither can remember; Scott's first feature.
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.
Two brothers in the Irish War of Independence and the civil war after; Loach's Palme d'Or.
Fifty years of Yugoslavia in a cellar with a brass band; Kusturica's second Palme d'Or.
Hitler's last twelve days in the bunker, with Bruno Ganz; the meme and the masterpiece.
The Algerian uprising filmed like a newsreel; the Pentagon screened it in 2003.
Peter O'Toole crosses the Nefud in 70mm; the desert epic every other desert epic quotes.
The seven-hour Soviet Tolstoy, with the Red Army as extras at Borodino.
A thief is made to impersonate a dead warlord to hold a clan together.
Sacco in a Bosnian enclave during the war; the second reportage comic.
The first month of the First World War day by day; Tuchman's Pulitzer that Kennedy read during the missile crisis.
T. E. Lawrence's own account of the Arab Revolt.
Orwell fights in the Spanish Civil War, is shot through the throat and sees the revolution betrayed.
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