So you won’t find Best Picture nominees (or winners) like Darkest Hour, The Great Dictator, or Patton on the list below. As with our previous lists, a pick only gets made once. Given this abundance of choice we decided to simplify things by limiting our picks to movies about World War II that were nominated for Best Picture. And during the war filmmakers produced a range of patriotic propaganda movies, including Happy Land, In Which We Serve, and the seven-part Why We Fight. It’s even possible to assemble a list of World War II movies like Jojo Rabbit, Kelley’s Heroes, and Mister Roberts that seek to make you laugh. We could have opted for a list of fictional tales of heroism-or at least heroic tales with only a small grain of truth-like Fury, Guns of Navarone, Inglorious Basterds, The Dirty Dozen, The Hill, and Where Eagles Dare. But we haven’t mentioned terrific films like Empire of the Sun, The Colditz Story, and Von Ryan’s Express. We have already recommended films like Bridge on the River Kwai, Paradise Road, Stalag 17, The Great Escape, and Unbroken. Nearly as many films have been shot about prisoners of war. But it would be joined by films like Atonement, From Here to Eternity, The English Patient, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, and To Have and Have Not.
The all-time classic Casablancawould top that list. There have been movies about great battles (e.g., A Bridge Too Far, Dunkirk, Midway, and Tora! Tora! Tora!), about harrowing true military experiences (e.g., Anthropoid, Decision Before Dawn, The Fighting Sullivans, The Thin Red Line, and Valkyrie), and about civilians caught up in the war (e.g., Fires Were Started, Defiance, Hope and Glory, Sophie’s Choice, The Imitation Game, The Pianist, and The Zookeeper’s Wife).įilmmakers have also used World War II as a backdrop to tell tales of romance, whether tragic or not. Indeed, lists of World War II films can be compiled by sub-theme. Not surprisingly for a conflict that remade the world as we know it and prompted Americans to speak of “ The Greatest Generation,” there is no shortage of possible films to recommend. We want to mark the anniversary by recommending five films that bring home the war’s horror. At least 75 million people are believed to have died in the war’s European and Pacific theaters combined. It was the most destructive war that the world has ever known. Japanese officials would not sign the formal surrender documents for nearly three more weeks, but August 14, 1945, effectively marked the end of a conflict that had lasted six years. Today marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of Japan’s unconditional surrender in World War II. Alcocer Martinez de Castro, Richard Haass and Yul Sohn June 6, 2022 It is designed to facilitate candid, not-for-attribution dialogue and consensus-building among influential opinion leaders from both established and emerging nations, with the ultimate purpose of injecting the conclusions of its deliberations into high-level foreign policy circles within members' countries. The CoC is composed of twenty-eight major policy institutes from some of the world’s most influential countries. The Council of Councils (CoC) is an international initiative created by the Council on Foreign Relations to connect leading foreign policy institutes from around the world in a dialogue on issues of global governance and multilateral cooperation. Alcocer, and Yul Sohn assess the degree of deglobalization and the dynamics behind any trend, whether the COVID-19 pandemic significantly accelerated developments, and the implications for international cooperation moving forward.
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