The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
A Boer War subaltern (Roger Livesey) becomes a World War II colonel, with three lovers (Deborah Kerr) along the way.
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Grand Illusion (1937)
World War I French fliers (Pierre Fresnay, Jean Gabin) become captives of a German aristocrat (Erich von Stroheim) who considers one of them his equal.
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The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
A Moscow girl (Tatyana Samoylova) loves a World War II soldier (Aleksey Batalov) but marries a pianist.
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The Red and the White (1967)
In this minimalist anti-war film, a faction of Hungarian soldiers on the side of the Russian Red army, led by a determined commander (Jozsef Madaras), fight against the pro-Czar white army in a remote Russian field near a dense wood along the Volga River. As the tide of battle ebbs and flows, a small group of compassionate nurses, including Olga (Krystyna Mikolajevska), do not differentiate between the sides, transporting all wounded soldiers to the nearby wood and treating their injuries.
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Children of Glory (2006)
During the 1956 Olympic games the Hungarian and Russian water-polo teams face off.
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The Burmese Harp (1956)
Kon Ichikawa's anti-war parable about a Japanese soldier burying his fallen comrades at the end of World War II.
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Witnesses (2003)
A detective and a journalist (Alma Prica) investigate the murder of a Serb living in a Croatian town.
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Schindler's List (1993)
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazi Germans.
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