The Train (1964)

The Train (1964)

[4] Burt Lancaster stars in this fictionalized account of the Nazis' attempt to abscond with France's most treasured paintings before the Allied Forces meet up with them. It's up to Lancaster, playing a Resistance train station master, to head up an elaborate…
A Farewell to Arms (1932)

A Farewell to Arms (1932)

[7] Helen Hayes and Gary Cooper co-star in director Frank Borzage's adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. Cooper plays an American ambulance driver who falls in love with Hayes' British nurse in Italy during the first World War. They are…
Streamers (1983)

Streamers (1983)

[7] Robert Altman directs this adaptation of David Rabe's award-winning stage play about four young Vietnam draftees who let their fears and insecurities get the better of them after one of them reveals he's gay. Streamers is a character study that takes place…
The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)

The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)

[7] This isn't the romanticized WWII of modern cinema, it's probably closer to the real thing. The Story of G.I. Joe is based on print journalist Ernie Pyle's interviews with soldiers in the field. Pyle was in the foxholes with them, and…
Paths of Glory (1957)

Paths of Glory (1957)

[8] To say this movie is an expose on the horrors of war is an understatement and an oversimplification. War is just a backdrop, and the indictment is a broader one of man's inhumanity to man. What makes Paths of Glory different…
Where Eagles Dare (1968)

Where Eagles Dare (1968)

[6] There is at least a certain amount of fun to be had in watching Clint Eastwood pump lead into Nazis. Where Eagles Dare is about a group of Allied forces trying to raid a Nazi stronghold to rescue a captured General who…
A Bridge Too Far (1977)

A Bridge Too Far (1977)

[6] Richard Attenborough (Gandhi, Chaplin) reenacts the elaborate but doomed Operation Market Garden, a World War II strategy the Allied Forces valiantly attempted to execute in order to defeat German Forces in the Netherlands. A Bridge Too Far is a three-hour Cliffs…
Dunkirk (2017)

Dunkirk (2017)

[7] Christopher Nolan serves up a wartime survival flick about Allied soldiers stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk, France, while the German army surrounds them. The water was so shallow, warships couldn't pick up the troops, so loading the hundreds of thousands of…
Stalag 17 (1953)

Stalag 17 (1953)

[7] William Holden leads an ensemble cast in Billy Wilder's adaptation of Stalag 17. The film takes place entirely in a German prisoner-of-war barrack, where the captured Americans are beginning to suspect that Holden's pessimistic black marketeer character may be informing on…
Soldier of Orange (1977)

Soldier of Orange (1977)

[7] Paul Verhoeven (RoboCop, Turkish Delight) draws upon his memories growing up in 1940s war-torn Holland for this adaptation of Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema' autobiography. When the Nazi's occupied the Netherlands, Roelfzema and several classmates left college to join the resistance. Soldier of Orange…