The Battle of the Somme

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and i...

Runtime

2h 23m

Director

Terry Gilliam

Cast

Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.

Runtime

2h 13m

Director

Lewis Milestone

Cast

Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.

Runtime

2h 42m

Director

Volker Schlöndorff

Cast

Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon ...

Runtime

1h 49m

Director

Fritz Lang

Cast

Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

Runtime

1h 28m

Director

Stanley Kubrick

Cast

Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou