A West African boy conscripted into a militia, and the commandant who becomes his father.
A year aboard an American aircraft carrier in the Pacific, filmed in colour by the crew themselves.
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.
A Polish survivor in post-war Brooklyn, and the decision on the ramp at Auschwitz she cannot say out loud.
The 54th Massachusetts, the first Black regiment of the Civil War, marching to Fort Wagner.
A Vietnam volunteer comes home paralysed and turns against the war that sent him.
The Iliad as a summer blockbuster, with Pitt as an Achilles who fights like a dancer.
Two Napoleonic officers keep meeting to fight over an insult neither can remember; Scott's first feature.
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.
A blacksmith becomes a knight and holds Jerusalem against Saladin; watch the director’s cut, not the release.
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.
A station at a wormhole and the Dominion War; the Trek that did serialised drama first.
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.
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.
A lie in 1935 and the Dunkirk beach in one five-minute take.
A Resistance prisoner plans his escape from Montluc in real detail; Bresson's truest film.
A ghost in an orphanage during the Spanish Civil War; del Toro's companion to Pan's Labyrinth.
A 12-year-old scout on the Eastern Front; Tarkovsky's first film and the dream sequences.
An Israeli veteran reconstructs the 1982 Lebanon war in animated interviews.
A woman waits for a soldier who will not return; the Soviet film that won the Palme d'Or.
A Home Army soldier ordered to kill a communist on the last day of the war; Wajda and Cybulski.
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.
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