Region: France
À nous la liberté (Freedom for Us)
- Director: René Clair
- Release Date: 1931
- Production Country: France
Freedom isn't always easy to find, as the convict Louis finds out when he escapes prison, only to become saddled with the worries of a factory owner. Contemplating how to free himself from these new cares, he runs into his prison friend Emile who has also escaped and now labors in his factory; both men realize that they have not truly "escaped," but merely transferred from one prison to another.
A Yank in the R.A.F. (The Eagle Flies Again)
- Director: Henry King
- Release Date: 1941
- Production Country: United States
Ace pilot Tim Baker takes a job ferrying newly made bombers from the U.S. to Britain, where he runs into his old girlfriend who, because of her belief in the necessity to fight Hitler, has joined up as a nurse in the British forces. Wanting to impress her, Tim joins the Royal Air Force, where he gradually begins to understand, after several missions, what the war is all about.
Adieu Bonaparte
- Director: Youssef Chahine
- Release Date: 1985
- Production Country: Egypt, France
The French invasion of Egypt in 1798 – 1804 by Napoleon Bonaparte provides a backdrop for this nationalistic story.
Annibale (Hannibal)
- Director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Edgar G. Ulmer
- Release Date: 1959
- Production Country: Italy
Despite his military prowess, Hannibal, acclaimed as one of the greatest military geniuses in history, could not save his home city of Carthage from the Roman Empire.
Au revoir les enfants (Goodbye, Children)
- Director: Louis Malle
- Release Date: 1987
- Production Country: France, West Germany, Italy
An immature French schoolboy befriends a fellow student only to discover his friend is a Jewish boy whom the schoolmaster has hidden in the midst of a Catholic boys' school.
Austerlitz (The Battle of Austerlitz or La battaglia di Austerlitz)
- Director: Abel Gance
- Release Date: 1960
- Production Country: France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Liechtenstein
Napoleon is crowned Emperor of France and then proves his mastery of Europe in battle against the Prussians and the Russians.
Avoir 20 ans dans les Aurès (To Be Twenty in the Aures)
- Director: René Vautier
- Release Date: 1972
- Production Country: France
A group of Breton pacifists are sent to fight in Algeria, but one refuses to become a soldier and goes on the run with an escaped Algerian prisoner.
Band of Brothers
- Director: Phil Alden Robinson, Richard Loncraine, Mikael Salomon, David Nutter, Tom Hanks, David Leland, David Frankel, Tony To
- Release Date: 2001
- Production Country: United Kingdom, United States
The men of E Company from the U.S. 101st Airborne Division come together, experiencing life, death, joy, and sorrow as they serve their country in the battlefields of Europe.
Cartouches Gauloises (Summer of '62)
- Director: Mehdi Charef
- Release Date: 2007
- Production Country: France, Algeria
Eleven-year-old Ali and his friends, both French and Algerian, watch as France withdraws from Algeria at the end of the war.
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
- Director: Werner Herzog
- Release Date: 2010
- Production Country: Canada, United States, France, Germany, United Kingdom
The prehistoric paintings in the Chauvet Cave in France are spectacularly displayed, providing learnings about primitive man from the oldest known depictions of humankind.
Civilisation (Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark)
- Director: Michael Gill, Peter Montagnon, Ann Turner
- Release Date: 1969
- Production Country: United Kingdom
British art historian, Kenneth Clark, surveys the history of Western Civilization, highlighting what he believes are its defining moments and greatest achievements.
Crèvecoeur (Heartbreak Ridge)
- Director: Jacques Dupont
- Release Date: 1955
- Production Country: France
Garcet is finally shed of his job as a liaison officer and given a military command with the French troops in Korea. Now he must win the respect of both his men and his peers if he truly wants to lead, though he cannot answer the question his volunteer troops most want answered: Just what is it they are here to fight—and likely die—for?
Danton
- Director: Andrzej Wajda
- Release Date: 1983
- Production Country: France, Poland
When Robespierre's old friend and fellow freedom fighter Danton returns from retirement to speak out against the reign of terror Robespierre has instituted in a desperate attempt to prevent civil war, Robespierre fears that his friend will lead a new revolution—against him. Realizing that it will take more than mere political pressure to stop Danton and his revolution, Robespierre must now decide between his morals and his conviction in his own cause.
Das Boot (The Boat)
- Director: Wolfgang Petersen
- Release Date: 1981
- Production Country: Germany
During World War II, a U-boat crew in the Atlantic contend with the Allies, the sea, and each other.
Das Mädchen Johanna (Joan of Arc or Joan the Maid)
- Director: Gustav Ucicky
- Release Date: 1935
- Production Country: Germany
Determined to triumph over the English, no matter the company he must keep, Charles VII accepts some help from a French peasant girl named Joan; but when he negotiates a victory with his enemies, he realizes that Joan's reliance upon religion and the voices only she can hear will be a liability to his future success.
Das schreckliche Mädchen (Nasty Girl)
- Director: Michael Verhoeven
- Release Date: 1990
- Production Country: West Germany
Sonya finds resistance in her community when she chooses her hometown's Nazi past as the topic for a high school paper and she struggles tries to write an accurate report about a past her community would rather rewrite than research.
Die große Stille (Into Great Silence)
- Director: Philip Gröning
- Release Date: 2005
- Production Country: France, Switzerland, Germany
Carthusian monks dedicate themselves to a life of solitude, silence, and prayer, as documented in this look at life inside the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the Carthusian order.
Die Nibelungen
- Director: Fritz Lang
- Release Date: 1924
- Production Country: Germany
Valiant Siegfried slays dragons, defeats mighty warriors, and wins the fair Kriemhild's heart, but all is for naught until he tricks the man-hating Brunhilde into marriage with Kriemhild's brother. Sadly, neither Siegfried's valor nor success are rewarded with years of wedded bliss. Kriemhild, now an unhappy widow, then must square accounts with the bitter Brunhilde and the hapless king through whom she accomplished her revenge on Siegfried.
Dunkirk
- Director: Leslie Norman
- Release Date: 1958
- Production Country: United Kingdom
Corporal Tubby Binns becomes suddenly in charge of his squadron of men and struggles to get his men to safety as the Germans advance relentlessly across France, especially as their destination may be more dangerous than any battle they have fought. Helping in that evacuation is British journalist Charles Foreman, who has been trying to convince his oblivious readers of the true dangers of the German success, only to have the physical proof of his warnings finally appear in the form of an order.
Élise ou la vraie vie (Elise, or Real Life)
- Director: Michel Drach
- Release Date: 1970
- Production Country: France, Algeria
During the Algerian War, a young aristocratic girl in France rejects her heritage for a common life and falls in love with an Algerian immigrant.