War Films
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.
| Spine # | Title | Director | Country | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 87 |
|
Alexander Nevsky | Sergei Eisenstein | Soviet Union, | 1938 |
| 385 |
|
Army of Shadows | Jean-Pierre Melville | France, | 1969 |
| 1063 |
|
The Ascent | Larisa Shepitko | Soviet Union, | 1977 |
| 285 |
|
Ashes and Diamonds | Andrzej Wajda | Poland, | 1958 |
| 148 |
|
Ballad of a Soldier | Grigori Chukhrai | Soviet Union, | 1959 |
| 249 |
|
The Battle of Algiers | Gillo Pontecorvo | Italy, | 1966 |
| 436 |
|
Before the Rain | Milcho Manchevski | Republic of Macedonia, | 1994 |
| 763 |
|
The Bridge | Bernhard Wicki | Germany, | 1959 |
| 379 |
|
The Burmese Harp | Kon Ichikawa | Japan, | 1956 |
| 496 |
|
Che | Steven Soderbergh | France, | 2008 |
| 146 |
|
The Cranes Are Flying | Mikhail Kalatozov | Soviet Union, | 1957 |
| 1011 |
|
Fail Safe | Sidney Lumet | United States, | 1964 |
| 378 |
|
Fires on the Plain | Kon Ichikawa | Japan, | 1959 |
| 318 |
|
Forbidden Games | René Clément | France, | 1952 |
| 376 |
|
49th Parallel | Michael Powell | United Kingdom, | 1941 |
| 283 |
|
A Generation | Andrzej Wajda | Poland, | 1955 |
| 1 |
|
Grand Illusion | Jean Renoir | France, | 1937 |
| 1027 |
|
The Great Escape | John Sturges | United States, | 1963 |
| 156 |
|
Hearts and Minds | Peter Davis | United States, | 1974 |
| 41 |
|
Henry V | Laurence Olivier | United Kingdom, | 1944 |
| 480 |
|
The Human Condition | Masaki Kobayashi | Japan, | 1959 |
| 604 |
|
In Which We Serve | David Lean… | United Kingdom, | 1942 |
| 397 |
|
Ivan’s Childhood | Andrei Tarkovsky | Soviet Union, | 1962 |
| 284 |
|
Kanal | Andrzej Wajda | Poland, | 1957 |
| 329 |
|
Lacombe, Lucien | Louis Malle | France, | 1974 |
| 1010 |
|
Le petit soldat | Jean-Luc Godard | France, | 1963 |
| 173 |
|
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | United Kingdom, | 1943 |
| 535 |
|
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence | Nagisa Oshima | United Kingdom, | 1983 |
| 197 |
|
Night and Fog | Alain Resnais | France, | 1955 |
| 523 |
|
Night Train to Munich | Carol Reed | United Kingdom, | 1940 |
| 382 |
|
Overlord | Stuart Cooper | United Kingdom, | 1975 |
| 538 |
|
Paths of Glory | Stanley Kubrick | United States, | 1957 |
| 514 |
|
Ride with the Devil | Ang Lee | United States, | 1999 |
| 497 |
|
Rome Open City | Roberto Rossellini | Italy, | 1945 |
| 130 |
|
The Shop on Main Street | Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos | Czechoslovakia, | 1965 |
| 452 |
|
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | Martin Ritt | United States, | 1965 |
|
The Steel Helmet | Samuel Fuller | United States, | 1951 | |
| 536 |
|
The Thin Red Line | Terrence Malick | United States, | 1998 |
| 234 |
|
The Tin Drum | Volker Schlöndorff | Germany, | 1979 |
| 423 |
|
Walker | Alex Cox | United States, | 1987 |
| 983 |
|
War and Peace | Sergei Bondarchuk | Soviet Union, | 1966 |
| 907 |
|
Westfront 1918 | G. W. Pabst | Germany, | 1930 |
|
Wooden Crosses | Raymond Bernard | France, | 1932 |