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Red Badge of Courage (1951)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNLOXYY17PQ
With war hero Audie Murphy in the starring role it is an overlooked masterpiece.

Masada (1981)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY7L-vDuhhE

Peter O'Toole is great as the world weary Roman commander.

Cromwell (1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER6xGlAZjVs

Lots of ahistorical howlers, but Richard Harris is grand as Cromwell and Alec Guinness is uncanny as Charles I.

For Greater Glory (2012)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmGRbApQDp4

Viva Christo Rey!

Juarez (1939)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj2B-u74nek

Paul Muni's best performance as Mexican President Benito Juarez. Bette Davis is electric as Empress Carlotta.

I'm still a fan of A Walk in the Sun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XejhkdTgFM

RR

First of the Few (1942):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_of_the_Few

1942 film with some real footage. Available on Amazon Prime and Youtube.

I'm surprised I forgot about this one! Zulu (1964) with a very young Michael Caine

Zulu: Men of Harlech

Come and See (1985)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091251/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkkJZwe ... C%D0%BC%22

An anti-war movie made in Russia during the cold war. Incredibly powerful but harrowing. The story of a young boy who joins the Russian partisans and lives through German atrocities and inhuman war conditions. The realism is still unparalleled (the director used real bullets - just saying!)

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Come and See (1985)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091251/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkkJZwe ... C%D0%BC%22

An anti-war movie made in Russia during the cold war. Incredibly powerful but harrowing. The story of a young boy who joins the Russian partisans and lives through German atrocities and inhuman war conditions. The realism is still unparalleled (the director used real bullets - just saying!)

The best war (or should that be anti-war) movie ever made IMO.

Another good one in a similar setting:

Trial on the Road (1971)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067625/

https://sovietmoviesonline.com/drama/pr ... na-dorogah

It was made in 1971 but banned in the Soviet Union for 15 years.

Another good one - Liberation - actually a series of shorter films, made by the Soviets in 1970/71, covering their major East Front campaigns

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0198811/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqJEMXbRgdw

Cheers