Recommended Films Concerning 20th Century European History

(Partial at best; suggestions are always welcome!)

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

    Original film version of the classic anti-war novel.

Amacord (1973)

    Director Fellini's memories of growing up in a small town in Fascist Italy.

Au revoir les enfants (1987)

    Touching story of a Jewish boy hiding in a Catholic school in France during WWII.

Battle of Algiers (1965)

Battle of Britain (1969)

Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Bicycle Thieves (1948)

Boot, Das (The Boat; 1981)

Blue Angel, The (1930)

Bread and Chocolate (1973)

Breaker Morant (1980)

Bruecke, Die (The Bridge; 1949)

Bridge Too Far, A (1977)

Burnt by the Sun

Cabaret (1972)

Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1920)

Casablanca (1942)

Colonel Redl (1985)

Come and See (1985)

Conformist, The (1970)

Counterfeit Traitor, The (1962)

Cross of Iron (1977)

Day of the Jackal (1973)

Deutschland Bleiche Mutter (Germany, Pale Mother; 1980)

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Eleni (1986)

Empire of the Sun (1987)

Enemy at the Gates (2001)

Enigma (2001)

Europa, Europa (

Fail-Safe (1964)

Farewell to Arms (1957)

Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)

55 Days in Peking (1963)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)

Funeral in Berlin (1966)

Gallipoli (1981)

Gandhi (1982)

Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)

Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (1990)

Grande Illusion, La (1937)

Great Dictator, The (1940)

Great Escape, The (1963)

Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

How Green Was My Valley (1941)

Ich klage an (I Accuse; 1941)

I'm All Right, Jack (1959)

In the Name of the Father (1993)

In Which We Serve

Jew Suess (1940)

Kanal (1956)

Kolberg (1945)

Last Flight, The (1931)

Last Metro, The (1980)

Last Stage, The (1947)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Lifeboat (1944)

Longest Day, The (1962)

Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, The (1975)

M (1931)

Maedchen in Uniform (1931)

Marriage of Maria Braun, The (1978)

Mephisto (1981)

Metropolis (1926)

Mission to Moscow (1943)

Moerder Sind Unter Uns, Die (The Murderers Are Among Us)

Nicholas and Alexandra

1900

Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog)

Olympia (1936)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

One-Two-Three (1961)

Operation Daybreak (1975)

Our Hitler

Paths of Glory (1957)

Pianist, The

Plenty (1985)

Reds (1981)

Repentance (1987)

Rosa Luxemburg (1986)

Saving Private Ryan

Schindler's List

Shoah

Sophie's Choice (1982)

Stalingrad (1993)

Ten Days that Shook the World

Things to Come

Third Man, The

Tin Drum, The

Triumph of the Will

Wings of Desire

Wir Wunderkinder (We Wonder-Children)

Young Winston (1972)

Z (1968)

Zentropa