Watch Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

How the Death Star plans were stolen; the saga's best war film.

Three timelines converge on the beach evacuation of 1940, almost without dialogue.

The Omaha Beach landing that changed how war is filmed.

Orwell fights in the Spanish Civil War, is shot through the throat and sees the revolution betrayed.

The first month of the First World War day by day; Tuchman's Pulitzer that Kennedy read during the missile crisis.

T. E. Lawrence's own account of the Arab Revolt.

Sacco in a Bosnian enclave during the war; the second reportage comic.

A thief is made to impersonate a dead warlord to hold a clan together.