Battle Ground (2013)
Three British soldiers become stranded in no man's land after a failed charge on German trenches.
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The Victors (1963)
The Allies occupy 1940s postwar Europe, which becomes a setting for everything immoral that goes with war.
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The Fifth Horseman Is Fear (1965)
A Jewish physician sacrifices his safety when he treats a fugitive during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia.
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The Inglorious Bastards (1978)
Two officers (Bo Svenson, Ian Bannen) lead military misfits on a mission to steal a Nazi V-2 rocket gyroscope.
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My Name Is Ivan (1963)
During World War II, a 12-year-old Russian sneaks behind enemy lines to spy on the Germans who killed his parents.
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All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
A young German soldier (Richard Thomas) and his comrades are followed through the horrors of World War I.
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Kajaki (2014)
During the war in Afghanistan, British soldiers embark on a mission to save their trapped comrades after one (Benjamin O'Mahony) loses a leg to a land mine.
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Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)
This documentary explores the American military's use of torture by focusing on the unsolved murder of an Afhgani taxi driver who, in 2002, was taken for questioning at Bagram Force Air Base. Five days later, the man was dead. The medical examiner claimed the driver died from excessive physical abuse. Taking this case as a jumping-off point, the film examines wider claims of torture that occurred at bases like Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay during the Bush administration.
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Lessons of Darkness (1992)
Retreating from Kuwait after the first Gulf War, the Iraqi army sets fire to the country's oil fields. In this documentary, filmmaker Werner Herzog films the raging flames while narrating from the perspective of a confused alien visitor, musing on the strangeness of the landscape. As the fires burn, helicopter shots display the extent of the damage. On the ground, firefighters do their best to control things, while Kuwaiti women recount atrocities perpetrated by the Iraqis.
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War and Peace (1966)
Soviet director Sergei Bondarchuk's retelling of Leo Tolstoy's epic novel of Napoleon's invasion of Russia is widely considered one of the longest and most expensive films of all time. Like the novel, the film is broken into four sections telling two intertwining stories, that of the war itself (featuring some of the most elaborate battles ever filmed) and that of the romance of Russian aristocrats Count Pierre Bezukhov (Sergei Bondarchuk) and Countess Natasha Rostova (Lyudmila Saveleva).
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