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.
A conscientious objector saves 75 men at Okinawa without a rifle; Mel Gibson's war film.
Szpilman surviving the Warsaw ghetto and the ruins; Polanski's own history.
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.
Five hours in a U-boat in 1941; the claustrophobia has never been bettered.
The Algerian uprising filmed like a newsreel; the Pentagon screened it in 2003.
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.
Renoir's French officers in a German prison camp in 1916, where class matters more than nation.
Jewish prisoners forced to forge pounds and dollars for the Reich in Sachsenhausen.
Rossellini shot on the streets months after the Germans left; neorealism begins here.
The Marx Brothers run the country of Freedonia into war; the mirror scene.
A Sonderkommando prisoner at Auschwitz tries to bury one boy; shot in shallow focus over his shoulder.
British prisoners build a bridge for the Japanese, and a colonel forgets whose side he is on.
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.
George C. Scott in front of the flag, in the biography he refused the Oscar for.
French and German colonists in 1915 Africa learn there is a war and stage their own.
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.
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.
German schoolboys march to the trenches in the film that defined the anti-war picture.
Rick, Ilsa, the letters of transit and the most quoted script ever written.
The first Best Picture: a silent Great War dogfight epic with real biplanes and Clara Bow.
A thief is made to impersonate a dead warlord to hold a clan together.
King Lear as a sixteenth-century warlord epic, in Kurosawa's fiercest colour.
Heart of Darkness up the Nung River, with helicopters and Wagner.
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