Cinema
War films
Every film in the archive tagged War.
The Pianist
A Polish-Jewish pianist survives the Warsaw ghetto and the ruins that follow it.
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Come and See
A Belarusian boy joins the partisans in 1943 and is aged past recognition by what he sees.
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Inglourious Basterds
A Jewish-American commando unit and a cinema owner separately plot the end of the Third Reich.
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Full Metal Jacket
Marine recruits are broken down in boot camp, then sent to Vietnam to find out why.
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Platoon
A volunteer infantryman in Vietnam is caught between two sergeants and their two moralities.
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The son of a camp commandant befriends a boy on the other side of the fence.
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Atonement
A child's lie about what she saw ruins two lives, and the war finishes what she started.
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Good Morning, Vietnam
An armed forces radio DJ in Saigon is loved by the troops and resented by command.
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The Men Who Stare at Goats
A reporter meets a veteran of a US Army unit trained in paranormal warfare.
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Legends of the Fall
Three brothers on a Montana ranch are pulled apart by war and by the same woman.
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