Watch Ashes and Diamonds

A film student investigates a forgotten Stalinist hero bricklayer; Wajda's Citizen Kane.

The 2003 original: three armies through the Second World War, and squads that shout.

El Alamein, Stalingrad and Normandy, with regenerating health for the first time.

Thirty-two players, planes, tanks and Wake Island; the series starts here.

Yossarian wants out of the war but only the sane ask, and asking proves you are sane; Heller's loop.

Billy Pilgrim comes unstuck in time between Dresden and Tralfamadore; so it goes.

Elie Wiesel at fifteen in Auschwitz and Buchenwald; a hundred pages that changed how the Holocaust is written.

Watch Stanley Kubrick's anti-war film Paths of Glory, set during World War I.