The Great Escape (1963)
Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.
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Tangerines (2013)
In 1992, war rages in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia. An Estonian man Ivo has decided to stay behind and harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo takes him in.
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Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
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Downfall (2004)
Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
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Army of Shadows (1969)
An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.
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The General (1926)
When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive, he pursues it single-handedly and straight through enemy lines.
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The Battle of Algiers (1966)
In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.
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Ivan's Childhood (1962)
In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
British POWs build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors, oblivious of the Allies' plans to destroy it.
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.
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