Easy Company from Normandy to Berchtesgaden; Spielberg and Hanks' ten-part war.
A burned man in a Tuscan villa remembers a desert affair before the war.
The Omaha Beach landing that changed how war is filmed.
Three timelines converge on the beach evacuation of 1940, almost without dialogue.
A Jewish cinema owner and a squad of commandos rewrite the end of the war.
Takahata's devastating story of two children in the last months of the war.
Five Hungarian Jews return to the places they were deported from in 1944; Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation.
The people who knew her and hid her, including Miep Gies, filmed while they were still alive to speak.
A year aboard an American aircraft carrier in the Pacific, filmed in colour by the crew themselves.
The first of Frank Capra’s Why We Fight films, made to explain to conscripts what they were being sent into.
Hitler told through Goethe’s Reynard the Fox, in woodcuts and archive, narrated by Marlene Dietrich.
John Ford filmed the battle from the roof of a power station and was wounded doing it; eighteen minutes of 16mm colour.
The Soviet account of the counter-offensive that stopped the Wehrmacht outside Moscow, re-cut for American cinemas.
The British account of El Alamein, cut from footage shot by cameramen who went forward with the infantry.
The Allied advance from Normandy to the Elbe, assembled by Carol Reed and Garson Kanin from a thousand cameramen.
Australian newsreel from the Kokoda Track in New Guinea, shot by Damien Parer, who was killed two years later.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Holocaust documentary, narrated by Orson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor.
The displaced-persons camps between 1945 and 1948, and the founding of Israel seen from inside them.
The ten thousand children Britain took in before the war, told by the children themselves at eighty.
Marcel Ophuls spends four and a half hours on the Butcher of Lyon and the people who protected him.
Nine and a half hours of witnesses, no archive footage; Lanzmann's Holocaust.
Thirty-two minutes on Auschwitz made in 1956; Resnais' film every French school shows.
The Marines from Guadalcanal to Okinawa; the harder companion to Band of Brothers.
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 12-year-old scout on the Eastern Front; Tarkovsky's first film and the dream sequences.
A Home Army soldier ordered to kill a communist on the last day of the war; Wajda and Cybulski.
A woman waits for a soldier who will not return; the Soviet film that won the Palme d'Or.
Gary Oldman as Churchill in May 1940, and the speech in the Underground.
A Hitler Youth boy with an imaginary Hitler played by Taika Waititi hides a Jewish girl.
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