All Quiet on the Western FrontThis anti-war movie about German boys in World War I was banned by Hitler, as was the original book
Atomic Cafe, TheA look back at the 1960s propaganda on what to do in case of a nuclear attack and footage of nuclear explosions and their effect on the troops used as guinea pigs.
Catch-22A US bombardier in W.W. II learns the only way out of the Army is to go crazy; but if you want out, you're not crazy.
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the BombA rogue US general, convinced of a Communist plot, sends a bomber to the Soviet Union, which could trigger a Doomsday Device if attacked.
Duck SoupThe Kingdom of Fredonia, governed by corrupt Rufus J. Firefly (Groucho) is threatened, invaded, and liberated with much stupidity but little violence.
Grande Illusion, LaClass, anti-Semitism and injustice trap the two French soldiers, Marechal and Rosenthal, who are captured by the Germans in W.W.I.
If You Love This PlanetDr. Helen Caldicott, president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, talks about the dangers of nuclear war and what we can do about it, in this award-winning documentary.
Available from: National Film Board of Canada
Johnny Got His GunA US soldier, disabled in W.W. I, regains consciousness and relives his life through dreams and memories>.
M*A*S*HThe escapades of an emergency medical unit in the Korean War show the pathos of war and one of the few ways to survive it.
Oh! What a Lovely WarA brilliant, stinging expose of the jingoism of British society W.W.I
On the BeachA lone submarine survives a nuclear war between the USA and the USSR.
Private History of a Campaign That Failed, TheFifteen boys from Hannibal, Missouri, face the horrors of war. A dramatization of "A War Prayer" opens the film. Mark Twain, who was a deserter from a Confederate unit in the Civil War and became an anti-slavery writer, wrote the original story.
PosseA group of African-American soldiers desert from the Spanish-American War and head west with stolen treasure.
Review by Susan Doll, Magill's Survey of Cinema
Roi de coeur (King of Hearts)A British soldier sent into a French town in W.W. I to disarm a bomb finds himself locked up in the town's insane asylum, where the inmates, less insane than the populace during war, crown him the "King of Hearts".
ShenandoahA farmer in Virginia tries valiantly to keep out of the Civil War.
Uns et les autres. Les (Bolero) Three generations of dancers from the USA, France, Germany and the Soviet Union live through W.W. I to the Holocaust to the 1960s.