Based on Michael Shaara’s novel The Killer Angels (1974), the film offers an epic treatment of the three-day Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.

The official Korean entry for best foreign film at the 2012 Academy Awards, it deals with a battle fought by a unit of the ROK Army on the eastern end of the fighting line in the days and hours before the 1953 ceasefire is due to come into effect.

Uses a documentary style and a largely unknown cast to recreate events surrounding the killing of civilians at Haditha in Al Anbar, Iraq in late 2005.

An award-winning and highly acclaimed account of a bomb disposal team operating in Iraq in the early stages of the insurgency, the film seeks ‘to immerse the audience’ in the experience of combat in Iraq.

Another award-winning film, this time a documentary on the war in Afghanistan that follows the deployment of a platoon of the 173rd Airborne Brigade in the Korengal Valley.

Thin Red Line is based on a book of the same name and - with a huge line-up of famous actors – explores the competition between peace and war.

Ken Burns’ magnificent and incredibly influential take on the American Civil War.

This documentary on Robert S. McNamara has been praised for its candor and introspection. Looking back on his time as Secretary of Defense in the lead up to and during the Vietnam and Cold Wars, McNamara confronts his decisions openly and honestly.

Burn’s treatment of the impact and experience of the Second World War on the United States through treatment of four otherwise unremarkable American towns.