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