A later version of The Dam Busters featuring a catchy theme tune, perilous mission, wooden acting, posh accents and plenty of entertainment. The brave 633 Squadron have enjoyed many successful sorties, but they are now assigned a seemingly suicidal mission - to bomb a water plant in occupied Norway, which is shielded by mountain terrain and guarded by heavy, anti-aircraft artillery.

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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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Spielberg's adaptation of JG Ballard's semi-autobiographical novel about his experience as a child in a Japanese PoW camp stars a young Christian Bale as Jim, an obnoxious British colonial child being brought up in luxury in China. When the Second World War breaks out he's captured by the Japanese and interned in a camp, where he has to do his utmost to survive. An unusual war movie, in that it's told from a child's point of view, Empire Of The Sun is a haunting film.

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Based on Joseph Heller's award-winning 1961 novel, Catch-22 tells the delightfully subversive tale of Yossarian, a World War II bombardier desperate to prove his own insanity so that he can be discharged from the airforce. Only problem is that his superiors know that anyone who wants to try to avoid fighting must be sane. If you use the phrase 'catch-22' in your day to day speech, now you know where it comes from.

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Based on Nicholas Monsarrat's best selling novel derived from his experiences on the North Sea convoys, The Cruel Sea is set during 'the battle of the Atlantic', as the U-boats attempted to destroy British shipping lanes and starve the country into surrender. The film follows the men of the Compass Rose, a small corvette protecting the merchant shipping, as they deal with the unseen menace of the submarines.

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