Paths of Glory tells a story designed to make the blood boil: a botched First World War assault ordered by high-up French officers in order to further their own careers results in blameless French soldiers court-martialled for cowardice. A work of genius from Stanley Kubrick; for all its chilly symmetry and beauty, the sheer injustice shown will have your pulse racing.

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Patton charts the tale of American hero General George S. Patton. Starting with Patton's appointment to take command in North Africa in 1943 and ending with his 'retirement' after Germany's surrender due to his refusal to tow the party line, George C Scott (who rejected an Oscar for the role, writing off the Academy Awards as a 'meat parade') is frighteningly believable as the General lusting for glory.

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Roman Polanski's greatest work since his heyday in the 1970s, a classically structured and shot movie that undoubtedly rivals Schindler's List as one of the most detailed and shocking examinations of the treatment of the Jews by the Nazis. Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody) is performing classical pieces on the radio as bombs begin falling on Warsaw. As the months role on, Szpilman witnesses the restrictions the Nazis place on Polish Jews - from compartments on trams they are not allowed to travel in to the startling sight of walls being built around parts of Warsaw to enclose the Jews into what became the infamous ghetto.

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Oliver Stone's finest moment, Platoon pounds through the jungles of Vietnam churning up increasingly shocking images of unmitigated horror. Charlie Sheen is the naive volunteer caught up in the massacre, experiencing and witnessing acts of 'bravery' motivated by fear and 'kill or be killed' mentality. Intense, humane and compelling viewing.

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