Made for $100 million back in the days when such a budget was a rarity, the fact that Waterloo was a box office disaster doesn't detract from the technical flair it displays. Steiger is Napoleon, while Plummer is the Duke of Wellington, whom he faces at the battle. While the historical detail may be overbearing and the dialogue clunky, there's no denying that the battle scenes are spectacular.

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Perhaps the only other U-boat drama besides Das Boot that aspires to greatness, We Dive At Dawn features John Mills as the captain leading his disparate band on a mission to sink a new German battleship during the Second World War. The tension builds as they track the target into the heavily defended Baltic and increases as they run out of fuel in enemy waters and must embark on a seemingly impossible escape.

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Based on the true story of journalist Michael Nicholson, who adopted a Bosnian child when covering the conflict there, this was the first Western movie to examine the war in the former Yugoslavia. Stephen Dillane is the dispassionate reporter who questions news values when his stories about a besieged orphanage are overtaken by the Duke of York's divorce, and decides to smuggle out and adopt a young girl with no future. This unashamedly political film is commendably free of sentiment and full of the shrill terror of life in the war torn town.

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A patriotic Second World War thriller based on a discomforting Graham Greene story that asks: what would happen if the Nazis took over a small English village? Although the fil m was primarily a morale boosting piece of German bashing, it makes an effective piece of wartime propaganda with a strikingly dark interpretation of what happens when strangers enter an English pastoral paradise.

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A classic cartoon book is brought successfully to the screen in this desperately moving satire which portrays the efforts of rural pensioners Jim and Hilda Bloggs to act upon the wisdom of the government's once notorious nuclear war handbook, Protect and Survive. Their diligent removal of doors, collection of drinking water and discussion of the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction doesn't save them when the missiles land.

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