Daniel Day-Lewis strides heroically through 18th century war and politics as the adopted white son of a Mohican Indian in Michael Mann's adaptation of Jame's Fenimore Cooperer's novel. Day-Lewis plays Hawkeye, a white man with a Mohican father, Chingachgook (Indian activist and actor Means), and brother, Uncas (Schweig). Together they become involved with the war being waged over the colonies by the British and French. Mann stages astonishingly realised battles and even throws in a little romance for good measure between Day-Lewis and Madeleine Stowe.

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An explosive, funny, silly Second World War film starring Clint Eastwood and a barking Donald Sutherland as GIs out to get a little more than experience out of the war. Kelly's Heroes concerns Private Kelly (Eastwood), who learns of $16 million worth of gold bars behind enemy lines, and reveals a plan to steal it to his fellow soldiers. Kelly sets the heist in motion, backed by a colourful cast of characters that includes Sutherland, anachronistically playing a hippy called Oddball. A massive hit on its release and still influential.

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Highly effective, award-winning adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's novel about a group of idealist young soldiers getting destroyed by the barbaric conflict of the First World War. Decades before Platoon and Saving Private Ryan, director Lewis Milestone and his team created a film that remains one of the most powerful screen comments on the horrors of war.

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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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Robin Williams plays to his strengths as a wise-cracking DJ sent to entertain the Marines in Vietnam in the Barry Levinson film that made him a star. His crazy routines make him a big hit with the troops, but Army think he's a loose cannon. The scenes in which Williams experiences the real war with the Vietnamese people are a little contrived, but somehow the actor manages to carry the audience with him. The film is also jam-packed with favourite 60s hits.

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