The Great Escape is a 1963 American WWII epic film based on an escape by British and... Darryl F. Zanuck, Ken Annakin, Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald. Diane Kruger, Which WWII movie, made from a Nazi German point of view (*), did you enjoy most? | Gross: Based on Paul Brickhill’s nonfiction book of the same name (but done so with great fictitious liberty), The Great Escape follows the escape of British Commonwealth soldiers from a POW camp in Nazi Germany. James Coburn, With a ten million dollar budget, this was the most expensive black-and-white movie ever made until. Director: PDS, This is a gloriously bizarre cod-spiritualist dark castle chiller from a pre ‘Heat’ Michael Mann.

$120.54M, R During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers. Making the infamous opening of ‘Saving Private Ryan’ look like a Sunday stroll in the park, Elem Klimov’s hallucinatory masterpiece feels like the nearest cinema has ever come to recreating the ruthlessly discombobulating sensory experience of war. Black Book is a great example of a film that takes during World War II, had an important effect, but that didn’t take place on the battlefield.

Helma Sanders-Brahms’s film presents a dewy-eyed romance between Lene (Eva Mattes) and Hans (Ernst Jacobi) that blossoms into marriage. A minor landmark which dared to suggest that, in war, ‘Not everyone is a hero and not every gun is pointed at the enemy’. $10.85M, PG The sense of impending doom is palpable and, as much of it is based on the recollections of Hitler’s secretary, scenes like a wild champagne party to the backbeat of Russian artillery ring bizarrely true. Bernhard Wicki, Director: As much a battle of wills as a great action movie, this enduring classic won seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Guinness, and remains a perennial television favourite. Gregory Peck, 66,006 Christian Bale, | Gross: | $216.54M. The movie has an awesome cast and Bryan Singer is a great director. This is sweeping oral testimony as conducted by a filmmaker who is ever-present in his film, bespectacled and smoking, pushing for detail and honesty above emotion and inexactitude. His bloody depiction of the Normandy landings is probably the finest battle sequence in movie history. TH, Britain’s obsession with the demon drink has made for some terrific cinema, and second only to ‘Whisky Galore’ in the pantheon of pissed-up pictures is this rousing, surprisingly hard-nosed tale of dipsomania in the desert. Wolfgang Petersen TH, Roman Polanski kicked off the twenty-first century with a sophisticated, Oscar-winning WWII survival drama which not only offered an authentic depiction of the Warsaw ghetto, but proved that – controversy aside – the director could still deliver when it mattered. | Ultimately, I guess the answer is yes. Basil Sydney, Not Rated 76 min Adventure, Comedy, War. Juliette Binoche, Austerely constructed, the film simply juxtaposes German newsreel and films shot by the Allies as they liberated the camps with newly filmed shots of disused railway sidings, empty fields and husks of buildings where thousands lost their lives. William Holden,

A cold, meticulous drama about the pressures of propping an entire country on your shoulders. | ALD, Famous for the cinema’s best ever punch-up on a moving cable car, this behind-the-lines romp is also reputed to clock up the highest body count of any Clint Eastwood film, with hundreds of Germans throwing themselves headlong into a storm of lead. Anthony Quayle, 14,577 Director: | Some films set during World War 2 may not be considered WWII movies in the most traditional sense, but they're often such amazing films that it would be unfair to leave them off the list.

| R A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad. 102 min Action, Drama, History. Robert Aldrich Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. A man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions. David Thewlis, TH, ‘Two Enemies! Sergi López, David Niven,

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