A conscientious objector saves 75 men at Okinawa without a rifle; Mel Gibson's war film.
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.
Szpilman surviving the Warsaw ghetto and the ruins; Polanski's own history.
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.
Jewish prisoners forced to forge pounds and dollars for the Reich in Sachsenhausen.
A Sonderkommando prisoner at Auschwitz tries to bury one boy; shot in shallow focus over his shoulder.
Lubitsch's Warsaw actors outwit the Gestapo; a comedy about the Nazis made in 1942.
Rossellini shot on the streets months after the Germans left; neorealism begins here.
An RAF pilot argues for his life on a staircase to heaven; Earth in colour, heaven in black and white.
Oskar stops growing at three and drums through the rise of the Nazis in Danzig.
A young railway apprentice worries about sex and, by accident, the Resistance.
Eight Italian soldiers are forgotten on a Greek island for three years of the war.
A Jewish aristocratic family in Ferrara plays tennis while the racial laws close in.
A boy survives a reprisal in occupied Haarlem and spends forty years understanding that night.
A Slovak carpenter is made "Aryan controller" of an old Jewish widow's button shop.
George C. Scott in front of the flag, in the biography he refused the Oscar for.
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.
Rick, Ilsa, the letters of transit and the most quoted script ever written.
Three veterans come home to the same small town and cannot fit back in.
A commandant's family keeps a tidy garden on the other side of the Auschwitz wall.
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