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Salvador, 1986 A brutally powerful polemic from Oliver Stone based on the experiences of real-life journalist Richard Boyle, who found himself in a civil war in El Salvador in 1980. Stone hits hard at America's 'backyard' policies that allowed Central American dictatorships to flourish while death squads freely committed atrocities - Salvador features a powerful recreation of the assassination of Archbiship Romero and the sickening aftermath of the murder of several American nuns, committed with US approval. Buy the DVD > Read the review > Read our feature > The Sand Pebbles, 1966 A powerful naval epic set in turbulent 1920s China, Steve McQueen received one of the film's eight Oscar nominations for his portrayal of a headstrong sailor who inadvertently sparks an international incident. Buy the DVD > Read the review > Read our feature > Sands Of Iwo Jima, 1949 Allan Dwan utilized authentic footage in the story of tough Marine Sergeant John Stryker (John Wayne), who bullies his recruits so that they'll be men, soldiers and alive at the end of the Pacific conflict against Japan. As the squad reached a bloody conflict on the island of Iwo Jima, the men come to respect and love their tough Sergeant. Buy the DVD > Read the review > Saving Private Ryan, 1998 The first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan is a visual assault, acclaimed as one of cinema's most accurate realisations of warfare. Capt John Miller (Tom Hanks) is among the US troops storming Omaha Beach on D-Day. Thereafter, you follow this everyman soldier on a humanitarian military mission to rescue the surviving brother of three soldiers killed in the same week. Spielberg crafts a shocking and moving illustration of the Second World War. Buy the DVD > Read the review > Read our feature > Schindler's List, 1993 Author Thomas Keneally won a Booker Prize for Schindler's Ark, but it took Steven Spielberg to tell the story of shady Nazi industrialist Schindler (Liam Neeson), who saved hundreds of Jews from the Polish death camps, to a worldwide audience. It won buckets of Oscars, but its best tribute is the shocked, tearful silence of audiences everywhere. An outstanding, harrowing piece of cinema. Buy the DVD > Read the review >
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