Watch the classic war film Full Metal Jacket directed by Stanley Kubrick
Mogadishu, October 1993: a raid meant to take an hour runs all night.
Easy Company from Normandy to Berchtesgaden; Spielberg and Hanks' ten-part war.
The German remake: the trenches of 1917 without a frame of glory.
William Wallace, blue face paint and the Battle of Stirling without the bridge.
Three steelworkers from Pennsylvania go to Vietnam; the Russian roulette scenes.
A burned man in a Tuscan villa remembers a desert affair before the war.
Oliver Stone's own tour of Vietnam, a rookie between two sergeants.
A bomb-disposal team in Iraq, and the man who needs the job more than he admits.
A girl in Falangist Spain, 1944, finds a faun in the maze behind her stepfather's barracks.
Takahata's devastating story of two children in the last months of the war.
Three timelines converge on the beach evacuation of 1940, almost without dialogue.
The Omaha Beach landing that changed how war is filmed.
A Jewish cinema owner and a squad of commandos rewrite the end of the war.
Watch Stanley Kubrick's anti-war film Paths of Glory, set during World War I.
A Russian primary-school teacher films his own classroom as the war turns it into a recruiting office.
The British account of El Alamein, cut from footage shot by cameramen who went forward with the infantry.
Australian newsreel from the Kokoda Track in New Guinea, shot by Damien Parer, who was killed two years later.
The Allied advance from Normandy to the Elbe, assembled by Carol Reed and Garson Kanin from a thousand cameramen.
A year aboard an American aircraft carrier in the Pacific, filmed in colour by the crew themselves.
An Afghan taxi driver dies in American custody at Bagram, and Alex Gibney follows the policy that killed him.
Peter Watkins films a nuclear strike on Kent as if it were news; the BBC banned it for twenty years.
The Soviet account of the counter-offensive that stopped the Wehrmacht outside Moscow, re-cut for American cinemas.
Peter Davis on Vietnam, cutting between the men who ordered the war and the people it was fought on.
John Ford filmed the battle from the roof of a power station and was wounded doing it; eighteen minutes of 16mm colour.
A West African boy conscripted into a militia, and the commandant who becomes his father.
Six weeks with an American platoon in Vietnam, filmed by Pierre Schoendoerffer, who had been a prisoner at Dien Bien Phu.
A British frigate hunts a French privateer round Cape Horn; the best sailing film there is.
RKO’s post-war explanation of Japan, written by Theodor Geisel - Dr. Seuss - before he wrote for children.
The first of Frank Capra’s Why We Fight films, made to explain to conscripts what they were being sent into.
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