| 1. |  | Casablanca (1942)
Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications. tt0034583
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| 2. |  | Life is Beautiful (1997)
A Jewish man has a wonderful romance with the help of his humour, but must use that same quality to protect his son in a Nazi death camp. tt0118799
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| 3. |  | Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Following the Normandy Landings, a group of US soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action. tt0120815
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| 4. |  | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop. tt0057012
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| 5. |  | The Pianist (2002)
A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II. tt0253474+
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| 6. |  | Apocalypse Now (1979)
During the on-going Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe. tt0078788+
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| 7. |  | The Great Dictator (1940)
In Chaplin's satire on Nazi Germany, dictator Adenoid Hynkel has a double... a poor Jewish barber... who one day is mistaken for Hynkel. tt0032553+
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| 8. |  | Paths of Glory (1957)
When soldiers in WW1 refuse to continue with an impossible attack, their superiors decide to make an example of them. tt0050825+
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| 9. | | Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996) |
| 10. |  | Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
A tragic film covering a young boy and his little sister's struggle to survive in Japan during World War II. tt0095327+
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| 11. |  | Das Boot (1981)
The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth, and sheer terror. tt0082096
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| 12. |  | Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Epic rumination on a flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his conflicted loyalties during wartime service. tt0056172
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| 13. |  | Braveheart (1995)
William Wallace, a commoner, unites the 13th Century Scots in their battle to overthrow English rule. tt0112573
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| 14. | | Michael the Brave (1593) |
| 15. |  | Full Metal Jacket (1987)
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal basic training to the bloody street fighting set in 1968 Hue, Vietnam. tt0093058
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| 16. |  | The General (1926)
When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive, he pursues it single handedly and straight through enemy lines. tt0017925
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| 17. |  | Inglourious Basterds (2009)
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as ''The Basterds'' are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. tt0361748
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| 18. |  | The Great Escape (1963)
Several hundred Allied POWs plan a mass escape from a German POW camp. tt0057115
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| 19. |  | Ran (1985)
An elderly lord abdicates to his three sons, and the two corrupt ones turn against him. tt0089881+
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| 20. |  | Downfall (2004)
Traudl Junge (Lara), the final secretary for Adolf Hitler (Ganz), tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII. tt0363163+
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| 21. |  | Lion of the Desert (1981)
In the Fascist Italy Pre-World War II of Benito Mussolini, the cruel General Rodolfo Graziani is directly assigned by Il Dulce to fight in the colonial war in Libya to vanquish the Arab ...tt0081059
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| 22. |  | The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it. tt0050212+
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| 23. |  | Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
In the fascist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world. tt0457430
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| 24. |  | Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazi judges for war crimes. tt0055031
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| 25. |  | The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed. tt0036868
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| 26. |  | To Be or Not to Be (1942)
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy. tt0035446+
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| 27. |  | Underground (1995)
The story follows an underground weapons manufacturer in Belgrade during WWII and evolves into fairly surreal situations...tt0114787
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| 28. |  | Gone with the Wind (1939)
American classic in which a manipulative woman and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love affair in the American south during the Civil War and Reconstruction. tt0031381
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| 29. |  | Incendies (2010)
Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history, and fulfill their mother's last wishes.tt1255953
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| 30. |  | To Live (1994)
Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry. Addicted to gambling, Fugui loses everything. In the years that ...tt0110081
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| 31. |  | The Deer Hunter (1978)
An in-depth examination of the way that the Vietnam war affects the lives of people in a small industrial town in the USA. tt0077416
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| 32. |  | Come and See (1985)
During WWII, a Belorussian boy is thrust into the atrocities of war, fighting with a hopelessly unequipped Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces...tt0091251
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| 33. |  | The Battle of Algiers (1966)
A surprisingly unbiased account of the bloodiest revolution in modern history. tt0058946
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| 34. |  | Hotel Rwanda (2004)
The true-life story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda. tt0395169
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| 35. | | The Breath (2009) |
| 36. |  | Brotherhood (2004)
A drama about the fate of brothers forced to fight in the Korean War.tt0386064+
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| 37. |  | Grand Illusion (1937)
During 1st WW, two French officers are captured. Captain De Boeldieu is an aristocrat while Lieutenant Marechal was a mechanic in civilian life... tt0028950
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| 38. |  | Platoon (1986)
A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man. tt0091763
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| 39. | | The Third Half (2012) |
| 40. |  | Stalag 17 (1953)
When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German POW camp barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer. tt0046359
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| 41. |  | Rome, Open City (1945)
Rome, 1944. Giorgio Manfredi, one of the leaders of the Resistance, is tracked down by the Nazis. He goes to his friend Francesco's...tt0038890
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| 42. |  | Barry Lyndon (1975)
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's position in 18th Century aristocracy. tt0072684
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| 43. | | The Wounds (1998) |
| 44. |  | Army of Shadows (1969)
France, 1942, during the occupation. Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, is one of the French Resistance's chiefs...tt0064040+
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| 45. |  | Farewell My Concubine (1993)
The story of two men, who met as apprentices in the Peking Opera, and stayed friends for over 50 years.tt0106332
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| 46. | | A Matter of Life and Death (1946) |
| 47. |  | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Portrays in warm-hearted detail the life and loves of one extraordinary man. We meet the imposingly rotund General Clive Wynne-Candy...tt0036112
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| 48. |  | Au Revior Les Enfants (1987)
A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives...tt0092593
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| 49. |  | Ivan's Childhood (1962)
12-year old Ivan works as a spy at the eastern front. The small Ivan can cross the German lines unnoticed to collect information. Three Soviet officers try to take care of this boy-child.tt0056111
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| 50. |  | All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I. tt0020629
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