Paths of Glory
Kubrick's trench tracking shots make the case against the court-martial before a single objection is raised.
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The Battle of Algiers: Must Watch
Pontecorvo's 1966 film reads as documentary and has been studied as doctrine ever since — by both sides.
Come and See: The Face That Cannot Unlearn What It Has Seen
Klimov's 1985 film is the most serious account of a child inside war ever made, and the hardest to sit through twice.
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