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Saving Private Ryan
1998 film directed by Steven Spielberg
Inglourious Basterds
Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 black comedy war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It stars an ensemble cast including Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger, and Mélanie Laurent. The film tells an alternate history story of two converging plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's leadership at a Paris cinema—one through a British operation largely carried out by a team of Jewish American soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Pitt), and another by French Jewish cinema proprietor Shosanna Dreyfus (Laurent) who seeks to avenge her murdered family. Both are pitted against Hans Landa (Waltz), an SS colonel with a fearsome reputation.
The Pianist
2002 film directed by Roman Polanski
X-Men
2000 film directed by Bryan Singer
Pan's Labyrinth
2006 film by Guillermo del Toro
Raging Bull
1980 film directed by Martin Scorsese
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
2009 film directed by Gavin Hood
X-Men: First Class
2011 film directed by Matthew Vaughn
Valkyrie
2008 film by Bryan Singer
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
2023 film directed by James Mangold
Kong: Skull Island
2017 film directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Hellboy
2004 film directed by Guillermo del Toro
The Longest Day
1962 war film
The Great Escape
1963 American film by John Sturges
Kelly's Heroes
1970 film directed by Brian G. Hutton
Monuments Men
2014 film by George Clooney
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
1975 film by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Underground
1995 film directed by Emir Kusturica
A Bridge Too Far
1977 film by Richard Attenborough
Son of Saul
2015 Hungarian drama film directed by László Nemes
Black Book
2006 film by Paul Verhoeven
The Dirty Dozen
1967 UK-US film directed by Robert Aldrich
Hitchcock
2012 film directed by Sacha Gervasi
Malcolm X
1992 film by Spike Lee
Hannibal Rising
2007 film directed by Peter Webber
The Night of the Generals
1967 film by Anatole Litvak
Kill Your Darlings
2013 film directed by John Krokidas
Where Eagles Dare
1968 film directed by Brian G. Hutton
Florence Foster Jenkins
2016 film by Stephen Frears
Radio Days
1987 film by Woody Allen
Stalag 17
1953 film by Billy Wilder
Lacombe, Lucien
1974 French film directed by Louis Malle
Is Paris Burning?
1966 film directed by René Clément
Battle of the Bulge
1965 film by Ken Annakin
Liberation
1969–1972 war film series about the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany
A Soldier's Story
1984 film by Norman Jewison
Le vieux fusil
1975 French film directed by Robert Enrico
Sisu (film)
Sisu is a 2022 action thriller film written and directed by Jalmari Helander and produced by Petri Jokiranta. The film stars Jorma Tommila, alongside Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan, Mimosa Willamo and Onni Tommila. It is set during the Lapland War between Finland and Nazi Germany towards the end of World War II, where a legendary Finnish Army commando-turned-gold prospector attempts to defend himself from being robbed and murdered by a Waffen-SS platoon led by a brutal and corrupt officer.
White Christmas (film)
White Christmas is a 1954 American Christmas musical film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. Filmed in Technicolor, it features the songs of Irving Berlin, including a new version of the title song, "White Christmas", introduced by Crosby in the 1942 film Holiday Inn.
Battleground
1949 American war film directed by William A. Wellman
Valiant
2005 film directed by Gary Chapman
Operation Finale
2018 film directed by Chris Weitz
The World According to Garp
1982 film by George Roy Hill
Warsaw 44
2014 film by Jan Komasa
White Tiger
2012 film by Karen Shakhnazarov
5 Fingers
1952 American spy film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1944
2015 film directed by Elmo Nüganen
Days of Glory
2006 film directed by Rachid Bouchareb
Red Tails
2012 film directed by Anthony Hemingway
The Cuckoo
2002 film by Aleksandr Rogozhkin
The Train
1964 film by Arthur Penn, John Frankenheimer, Bernard Farrel
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
1958 film by Douglas Sirk
General della Rovere
1959 film by Roberto Rossellini
The Odessa File
1974 film by Ronald Neame
Le Bal
1983 film by Ettore Scola
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
1957 film by John Huston
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist
2005 film directed by Paul Schrader
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
1991 Japanese Sci-Fi/Adventure film by Kazuki Ōmori
Jakob the Liar
1999 film directed by Peter Kassovitz
Escape to Athena
1979 film by George P. Cosmatos