9. The Best Years of Our
Lives (1946)
Director: William Wyler
Writers: Robert E. Sherwood (screen play),
MacKinlay Kantor (from a novel by)
Stars: Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Myrna
Loy
Fred, Al and Homer are three World War II
veterans facing difficulties as they re-enter
civilian life. Fred (Dana Andrews) is a war
hero who, unable to compete with more
highly skilled workers, has to return to his
low-wage soda jerk job. Bank executive Al
(Fredric March) gets into trouble for offering
favorable loans to veterans. After losing
both hands in the war, Homer (Harold
Russell) returns to his loving fiancée, but
must struggle to adjust.
14. Rome, Open City
(1945)
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Writers: Sergio Amidei (screenplay),
Federico Fellini (collaboration on
screenplay)
Stars: Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello
Pagliero
Rome, 1944. Giorgio Manfredi, one of the
leaders of the Resistance is tracked down
by the Nazis. He goes to his friend
Francesco's, and asks Pina, Francesco's
fiance, for help. Pina must warn a priest,
Don Pietro Pellegrini, that Giorgio needs to
leave the town as soon as possible.
20. The Imitation Game
(2014)
Director: Morten Tyldum
Writers: Graham Moore, Andrew Hodges
(book)
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira
Knightley, Matthew Goode
In 1939, newly created British intelligence
agency MI6 recruits Cambridge mathematics
alumnus Alan Turing (Benedict
Cumberbatch) to crack Nazi codes,
including Enigma -- which cryptanalysts had
thought unbreakable. Turing's team,
including Joan Clarke (Keira Knightley),
analyze Enigma messages while he builds a
machine to decipher them. Turing and team
finally succeed and become heroes, but in
1952, the quiet genius encounters disgrace
when authorities reveal he is gay and send
him to prison.
25. Patton (1970)
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Writers: Francis Ford Coppola (screen story
and screenplay), Edmund H. North (screen
story and screenplay)
Stars: George C. Scott, Karl Malden,
Stephen Young
Biography of controversial World War II hero
General George S. Patton. The film covers
his wartime activities and accomplishments,
beginning with his entry into the North
African campaign and ending with his
removal from command after his outspoken
criticism of US post-war military strategy.
30. Empire of the Sun
(1987)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: J.G. Ballard (novel), Tom
Stoppard (screenplay
Stars: Christian Bale, John Malkovich,
Miranda Richardson
Jamie Graham (Christian Bale), a
privileged English boy, is living in
Shanghai when the Japanese invade and
force all foreigners into prison camps.
Jamie is captured with an American
sailor named Basie (John Malkovich),
who looks out for him while they are in
the camp together. Even though he is
separated from his parents and in a
hostile environment, Jamie maintains his
dignity and youthful spirits, providing a
beacon of hope for the others held
captive with him.
36. The Boy in the Striped
Pyjamas(2008)
Director: Mark Herman
Writers: John Boyne (novel), Mark
Herman (screenplay)
Stars: Asa Butterfield, David Thewlis,
Rupert Friend
During World War II, 8-year-old Bruno
(Asa Butterfield) and his family leave
Berlin to take up residence near the
concentration camp where his father
(David Thewlis) has just become
commandant. Unhappy and lonely, he
wanders out behind his house one day
and finds Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), a
Jewish boy of his age. Though the
barbed-wire fence of the camp separates
them, the boys begin a forbidden
friendship, oblivious to the real nature of
their surroundings.
41. The Dirty Dozen
(1967)
Director: Robert Aldrich
Writers: Nunnally Johnson
(screenplay), Lukas Heller (screenplay)
Stars: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine,
Charles Bronson
As D-Day approaches, Colonel Breed
hands the roguish Major Reisman (Lee
Marvin) an important assignment: He
must train a team of soldiers to
parachute across enemy lines and
assassinate German personnel at a
French chateau. The soldiers,
recruited from murderers, rapists and
criminals on death row, are promised
commuted sentences. In spite of their
history, the 12 men prove a spirited
and courageous unit. Led by Major
Reisman, they will exact revenge.
48. From Here to Eternity
(1953)
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Writers: Daniel Taradash (screen play),
James Jones (based upon the novel
by)
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery
Clift, Deborah Kerr
At an Army barracks in Hawaii in the
days preceding the attack on Pearl
Harbor, lone-wolf soldier and boxing
champion "Prew" Prewitt (Montgomery
Clift) refuses to box, preferring to play
the bugle instead. Hard-hearted Capt.
Holmes (Philip Ober) subjects Prew to
a grueling series of punishments
while, unknown to Holmes, the gruff
but fair Sgt. Warden (Burt Lancaster)
engages in a clandestine affair with
the captain's mistreated wife (Deborah
Kerr).
53. The Longest Day
(1962)
Directors: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton
Writers: Cornelius Ryan (screenplay),
Cornelius Ryan (book)
Stars: John Wayne, Robert Ryan,
Richard Burton
In 1944, the U.S. Army and Allied forces
plan a huge invasion landing in
Normandy, France. Despite bad weather,
General Eisenhower gives the okay and
the Allies land at Normandy. General
Norma Cota (Robert Mitchum) travels
with his men onto Omaha Beach. With
much effort, and lost life, they get off the
beach, traveling deep into French
territory. The German military, due to
arrogance, ignorance and a sleeping
Adolf Hitler, delay their response to the
Allied landing, with crippling results.
59. The Last Emperor
(1987)
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Writers: Mark Peploe (screenplay),
Bernardo Bertolucci (screenplay
Stars: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter
O'Toole
This sweeping account of the life of Pu
Yi (John Lone), the last emperor of
China, follows the leader's tumultuous
reign. After being captured by the Red
Army as a war criminal in 1950, Pu Yi
recalls his childhood from prison. He
remembers his lavish youth in the
Forbidden City, where he was afforded
every luxury but unfortunately sheltered
from the outside world and complex
political situation surrounding him. As
revolution sweeps through China, the
world Pu Yi knew is dramatically
upended.
65. Where Eagles Dare
(1968)
Director: Brian G. Hutton
Writers: Alistair MacLean (story),
Alistair MacLean (screenplay)
Stars: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood,
Mary Ure
A crack team of Allied soldiers stages
a daring rescue during World War II. A
U.S. general is being held captive in an
imposing castle fort, high in the
Bavarian Alps. The audacious plan
calls for Lt. Schaffer (Clint Eastwood),
Maj. Smith (Richard Burton) and other
operatives to parachute down wearing
Nazi disguises. They'll penetrate the
mountain outpost while undercover
operatives assist them from within.
But their mission changes when they
discover that there's a traitor in their
midst.
70. The Thin Red Line
(1998)
Director: Terrence Malick
Writers: James Jones (novel), Terrence
Malick (screenplay)
Stars: Jim Caviezel, Sean Penn, Nick
Nolte
In 1942, Private Witt (Jim Caviezel) is a
U.S. Army absconder living peacefully
with the locals of a small South Pacific
island. Discovered by his commanding
officer, Sgt. Welsh (Sean Penn), Witt is
forced to resume his active duty training
for the Battle of Guadalcanal. As Witt and
his unit land on the island, and the
American troops mount an assault on
entrenched Japanese positions, the story
explores their various fates and attitudes
towards life-or-death situations.
78. Enemy at the Gates
(2001)
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Writers: Jean-Jacques Annaud, Alain
Godard
Stars: Jude Law, Ed Harris, Joseph
Fiennes
Vassili (Jude Law) is a young Russian
sharpshooter who becomes a legend
when a savvy polical officer (Joseph
Fiennes) makes him the hero of his
propaganda campaign. Their friendship
is threatened when both men fall in love
with a beautiful female soldier (Rachel
Weisz). As the battle for the city rages,
Vassili faces the ultimate challenge
when the Nazi command dispatches its
most elite marksman (Ed Harris) to hunt
down and kill the man who has become
the hope of all Russia.
85. The Guns of
Navarone (1961)
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Writers: Alistair MacLean (novel) (as
Alistair Maclean) , Carl Foreman (written
for the screen by)
Stars: David Niven, Gregory Peck,
Anthony Quinn
In 1943, a small commando team is sent
to destroy huge German guns on the
Greek Island of Navarone in order to
rescue Allied troops trapped on Kheros.
Led by British Major Franklin (Anthony
Quayle), the team includes American
Mallory (Gregory Peck), Greek resistance
fighter Stavros (Anthony Quinn) and
reluctant explosives expert Miller.
Facing impossible odds, the men battle
stormy seas and daunting cliffs. When
Franklin is injured, Mallory takes
command, and personal enmities spill
over.
93. Stalingrad (1993)
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier
Writers: Jürgen Büscher, Johannes
Heide
Stars: Dominique Horwitz, Thomas
Kretschmann, Sebastian Rudolph
Stalingrad is a 1993 war drama film
directed by Joseph Vilsmaier. The
movie follows a platoon of World War
II German Army soldiers transferred to
Russia, where they ultimately find
themselves participants in the Battle of
Stalingrad.
99. Valkyrie (2008)
Director: Bryan Singer
Writers: Christopher McQuarrie,
Nathan Alexander
Stars: Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy, Carice
van Houten
Col. Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom
Cruise) serves Germany with loyalty
and pride but fears that Hitler will
destroy his country if allowed to run
unchecked. With time running out for
Germany and the rest of Europe, von
Stauffenberg joins a group of like-
minded, high-ranking men who want to
overthrow the Nazi regime from within.
With everything he holds dear in the
balance, von Stauffenberg becomes
the trigger man in a plot to assassinate
the evil dictator.
106. Fury (2014)
Director: David Ayer
Writer: David Ayer
Stars: Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan
Lerman
In April 1945, the Allies are making
their final push in the European
theater. A battle-hardened Army
sergeant named Don "Wardaddy"
Collier (Brad Pitt), leading a Sherman
tank and a five-man crew, undertakes
a deadly mission behind enemy lines.
Hopelessly outnumbered, outgunned
and saddled with an inexperienced
soldier (Logan Lerman) in their midst,
Wardaddy and his men face
overwhelming odds as they move to
strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
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