Criterion War Films
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The continuing cultural fascination with World War II has ensured that it’s the conflict most represented in cinema, and the Criterion Collection indeed contains more works about that massive conflagration than any other—whether harrowing dramas made right in its crosshairs (like Rome Open City) or poetic studies produced decades later (like The Thin Red Line)—seen through the eyes of filmmakers from many nations. But there are battle cries from other epochs in the collection as well, and taken together, these films embody a history of human combat, from the brother-against-brother bloodshed of the American Civil War (Ride with the Devil) to the trench warfare of the First World War (Wooden Crosses) to the jungle skirmishes of the Cuban Revolution (Che).
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Paths of Glory
1957, in 26 top lists Check -
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The Thin Red Line
1998, in 14 top lists Check -
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La battaglia di Algeri
1966 — a.k.a. The Battle of Algiers, in 29 top lists Check -
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La grande illusion
1937 — a.k.a. The Grand Illusion, in 30 top lists Check -
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Nuit et brouillard
1956 — a.k.a. Night and Fog, in 17 top lists Check -
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Letyat zhuravli
1957 — a.k.a. The Cranes Are Flying, in 17 top lists Check -
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L'armée des ombres
1969 — a.k.a. Army of Shadows, in 18 top lists Check -
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Roma città aperta
1945 — a.k.a. Rome, Open City, in 23 top lists Check -
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Ivanovo detstvo
1962 — a.k.a. Ivan's Childhood, in 12 top lists Check -
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943, in 16 top lists Check -
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Ningen no jôken
1959 — a.k.a. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love, in 13 top lists Check -
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Jeux interdits
1952 — a.k.a. Forbidden Games, in 15 top lists Check -
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Ningen no jôken
1961 — a.k.a. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer, in 12 top lists Check -
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Voskhozhdenie
1977 — a.k.a. The Ascent, in 14 top lists Check -
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Ballada o soldate
1959 — a.k.a. Ballad of a Soldier, in 16 top lists Check -
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Ningen no jôken
1959 — a.k.a. The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity, in 12 top lists Check -
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Die Blechtrommel
1979 — a.k.a. The Tin Drum, in 14 top lists Check -
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Obchod na korze
1965 — a.k.a. The Shop on Main Street, in 14 top lists Check -
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Popiól i diament
1958 — a.k.a. Ashes and Diamonds, in 16 top lists Check -
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Biruma no tategoto
1956 — a.k.a. The Burmese Harp, in 12 top lists Check -
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Kanal
1957, in 11 top lists Check -
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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965 — a.k.a. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, in 4 top lists Check -
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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
1983, in 6 top lists Check -
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Che: Part One
2008, in 1 top list Check -
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Nobi
1959 — a.k.a. Fires on the Plain, in 6 top lists Check -
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Aleksandr Nevskiy
1938 — a.k.a. Alexander Nevsky, in 10 top lists Check -
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Pred dozhdot
1994 — a.k.a. Before the Rain, in 5 top lists Check -
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Lacombe Lucien
1974, in 8 top lists Check -
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Che: Part Two
2008, in 1 top list Check -
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Hearts and Minds
1974, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Steel Helmet
1951, in 2 top lists Check -
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49th Parallel
1941, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth...
1944 — a.k.a. Henry V, in 12 top lists Check -
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Walker
1987, in 2 top lists Check -
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Night Train to Munich
1940 — a.k.a. Gestapo, in 2 top lists Check -
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Les croix de bois
1932 — a.k.a. Wooden Crosses, in 5 top lists Check -
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In Which We Serve
1942, in 6 top lists Check -
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Overlord
1975, in 1 top list Check -
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Pokolenie
1955 — a.k.a. A Generation, in 2 top lists Check -
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Ride with the Devil
1999, in 3 top lists Check
Last updated on Jan 8, 2012; source