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Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815)[]
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Napoléon (1927) Directed by Abel Gance IMDb |
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The Duellists (1977) Directed by Ridley Scott IMDb |
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) Directed by Peter Weir IMDb |
American Civil War (1861-1865)[]
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The Birth of a Nation (1915) Directed by D.W. Griffith IMDb |
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The General (1926) Directed by Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton IMDb |
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Gone with the Wind (1939) Directed by Victor Fleming IMDb |
World War I (1914-1918)[]
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The Big Parade (1925) Directed by King Vidor IMDb |
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Wings (1927) Directed by William A. Wellman IMDb |
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All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Directed by Lewis Milestone IMDb This is a faithful adaptation, so you won't need to read the book! |
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La grande illusion (1937) Directed by Jean Renoir IMDb |
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Sergeant York (1941) Directed by Howard Hawks IMDb |
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Paths of Glory (1957) Directed by Stanley Kubrick IMDb |
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Directed by David Lean IMDb |
World War II (1939-1946)[]
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The Great Dictator (1940) Directed by Charles Chaplin IMDb |
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To Be or Not to Be (1942) Directed by Ernst Lubitsch IMDb |
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Five Graves to Cairo (1943) Directed by Billy Wilder IMDb |
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Stalag 17 (1953) Directed by Billy Wilder IMDb |
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The Cranes are Flying [Летят журавли] (1957) Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov [Михаил Калатозов] IMDb |
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The Human Condition [人間の条件 第一部純愛篇] (1959) Directed by Masaki Kobayashi [小林 正樹] IMDb:1 IMDb:2 IMDb:3 A film in three parts. |
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Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) Directed by Alain Resnais IMDb |
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The Great Escape (1963) Directed by John Sturges IMDb |
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Patton (1970) Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner IMDb 24 year olds' favorite movie. |
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The Day the Clown Cried (1972) Directed by Jerry Lewis IMDb Will change your life. |
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The Tin Drum [Die Blechtrommel] (1979) Directed by Volker Schlöndorff IMDb |
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Lili Marleen (1981) Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder IMDb |
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Das Boot (1981) Directed by Wolfgang Petersen IMDb Greatest naval movie of all time. |
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Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987) Directed by Louis Malle IMDb |
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Schindler's List (1993) Directed by Steven Spielberg IMDb Will make you cry if you're a Jew. |
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Life Is Beautiful [La vita è bella] (1997) Directed by Roberto Benigni IMDb |
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Saving Private Ryan (1998) Directed by Steven Speilberg IMDb 12 year olds' favorite movie. |
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The Thin Red Line (1998) Directed by Terrence Malick IMDb |
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Black Book [Zwartboek] (2006) Directed by Paul Verhoeven IMDb |
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Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) Directed by Clint Eastwood IMDb Good movie from the opposite side of the battlefield. Much better than Fags of our Fathers. |
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Inglorious Basterds (2009) Directed by Quentin Tarantino IMDb 14 year olds' favorite movie. |
Vietnam War (1955-1975)[]
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The Deer Hunter (1978) Directed by Michael Cimino IMDb |
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Apocalypse Now (1979) Directed by Francis Ford Coppola IMDb The Horror… |
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Platoon (1986) Directed by Oliver Stone IMDb |
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Full Metal Jacket (1987) Directed by Stanley Kubrick IMDb The first half is better than the second, now STFU. |
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Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) Directed by Barry Levinson IMDb |
Gulf War (1990-1991)[]
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Three Kings (1999) Directed by David O. Russell IMDb |
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Jarhead (2005) Directed by Sam Mendes IMDb |
Iraq War (2003-2011)[]
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The Kingdom (2007) Directed by Peter Berg IMDb |
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The Hurt Locker (2008) Directed by Kathryn Bigelow IMDb |
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Body of Lies (2008) Directed by Ridley Scott IMDb |
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Green Zone (2010) Directed by Paul Greengrass IMDb |
Wars that had nothing to do with pig disgusting Burgers[]
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Battleship Potemkin [Броненосец Потёмкин] (1925) Directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein [Сергей М Эйзенштейн] IMDb 1905 Russian Revolution (1905-1908) |
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October (Ten Days That Shook the World) [Октябрь] (1928) Directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein [Сергей М Эйзенштейн] & Grigori Aleksandrov [Григорий Александров] IMDb Russian Civil War (1917-1923) |
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The Last Command (1928) Directed by Josef von Sternberg Russian Civil War (1917-1923) |
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Alexander Nevsky [Александр Невский] (1938) Directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein [Сергей М Эйзенштейн] & Dmitri Vasilyev [Дмитрий Васильев] IMDb Northern Crusades (1100-1299) |
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Directed by Stanley Kubrick IMDb The Cold War LOL |
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Battle of Algiers [La battaglia di Algeri] (1966) Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo IMDb Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) |
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No Man's Land (2001) Directed by Danis Tanovic IMDb Bosnian War (1992-1995) |
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Lebanon (2009) Directed by Samuel Maoz IMDb 1982 Lebanon War (1982-1983) |