The Fighting Generation

Night and Fog

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

1956

La défense du drapeau

As the only survivor of a battle, a cavalryman heroically defends his flag.

1897

M*A*S*H

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war. Preserved by the Academy Film A

1970

Halo: Landfall

Director Neill Blomkamp explores the lives of Marines and ODSTs on a last, desperate mission in a post-invasion Earth – a mission that may secure the

2007

When the Pie Was Opened

Surrealism, avant-garde sound montage, and irreverent wit might be the last thing you'd expect from a government-sponsored film about wartime cookery.

1941

Torpedo Squadron

John Ford splices together footage of Torpedo Squadron 8, all but one of whom were later shot down and killed in the Battle of Midway. Preserved by t

1942

Seeds of Destiny

Oscar winning postwar propaganda film in support of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Strident but poignant, focusing on ch

1946

6 Little Jungle Boys

A short animated War Office commissioned health education film, showing the fate of each of the 6 jungle soldiers.

1945

The General

How the advance of a column of tanks is stopped by the ultimate war machine in the hands of an unrelenting general. A statement from the heart against

2004

Death Mills

Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies fo

1945

Spies

The doltish but self-confident and self-congratulatory Private Snafu is in possession of a military secret during World War II. Over the course of the

1943

The Cardinal

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.

1963

Churchill's Island

The people of Britain resist the German air force and navy with help from North America. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Li

1941

Beyond the Line of Duty

This short film in support of the war effort focuses on the training and missions of Army Air Corps Captain Hewitt T. Wheless just after the U.S. entr

1942

Song of Victory

A vulture, a gorilla and a hyena (“with no small resemblances to actual dictators”) bully the woodland animals, who eventually fight back, using the l

1942

Scrap Happy Daffy

During World War Two, Daffy Duck owns a junkyard which collects scrap metal to use in building weapons to continue the Allied fight against the Axis p

1943

Patton

"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and p

1970

A Propos of the Truce with Finland

A rare documentary that shows how Soviet war propaganda presented the events of the Finnish front in 1941–1944. The main emphasis is on the resolution

1944

Stop!

A short anti-war animation set on a chessboard.

1983

Through My Thick Glasses

An elderly man tells his granddaughter his personal story of the Second World War. His life as a child and all the strange characters he populates it

2004