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WW2 movies...name the better ones

It's hard to pick "the best" when it comes to WW2 flicks but name some of the better ones you've seen.
I'm watching Battleground on TCM right now. It's one of the better ones.
 
Even with great actors in both films, neither could live up to these two outstanding WWII novels because of time contraints. I am referring to The Caine Mutiny and From Here To Eternity. Not a lot of "shoot 'em up", but oh, the stories they tell.

Read the novels first. If it's your kind of thing, you'll find them hard to put down. Then watch the movies. I particularly recommend The Caine Mutiny to all you lifers and retirees out there. A great read.

I know it's a thread about movies, not novels. So convene an Article 32 hearing already.
 
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ok some not WW2 but some GREAT war movies!

March or Die
The Wind That Shakes The Barley
The Lost Battalion
Stalingrad
In Harm's Way
Paths of Glory
The Battle of Algiers
The Battle of El-Alamein
The Beast
The Big Red One
Halls of Montezuma
A Bridge Too Far
The Enemy Below
Dark Blue World
Michael Collins- The Big Fella!
None but the Brave
Days of Glory
Flame and Citron
 
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Let's see...what hasn't been mentioned?

Cockleshell Heroes
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Hell in the Pacific (one of the interesting things about it is that Mifune and Lee Marvin both really served in WWII)
Cross of Iron
Where Eagles Dare
The Dirty Dozen
Bridge on the River Kwai (chase it down with Jerry Lewis in The Geisha Boy)
Devils on the Doorstep (great Chinese film about resisting the Japanese occupation)
Army of Shadows (about the French Resistance)
The Great Escape
 
A little known WW2 era movie was "The Winter War".
It's a Finnish movie with English sub titles. Finns vs. Russians. 1939-1940.
Amazon sells it.
 
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