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.
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.
The Algerian uprising filmed like a newsreel; the Pentagon screened it in 2003.
Melville's French Resistance as a grey, unglamorous business of betrayals.
Five hours in a U-boat in 1941; the claustrophobia has never been bettered.
The Marx Brothers run the country of Freedonia into war; the mirror scene.
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.
A Sonderkommando prisoner at Auschwitz tries to bury one boy; shot in shallow focus over his shoulder.
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.
The seven-hour Soviet Tolstoy, with the Red Army as extras at Borodino.
George C. Scott in front of the flag, in the biography he refused the Oscar for.
Eight Italian soldiers are forgotten on a Greek island for three years of the war.
Soldiers in Hawaii in the weeks before Pearl Harbor, and the kiss in the surf.
Peter O'Toole crosses the Nefud in 70mm; the desert epic every other desert epic quotes.
British prisoners build a bridge for the Japanese, and a colonel forgets whose side he is on.
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.
Heart of Darkness up the Nung River, with helicopters and Wagner.
A commandant's family keeps a tidy garden on the other side of the Auschwitz wall.
King Lear as a sixteenth-century warlord epic, in Kurosawa's fiercest colour.
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