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If you want to continue exploring wartime cinema, here is a list of influential films that were not covered on this website (please note that due to censorship laws many of these films may be difficult to access)

World War 1:

Atlantis (Denmark, 1913)

L'enfant de Paris (France, 1913)

The Mysterious X (Denmark, 1913)

Cabiria (Italy, 1914)

Intolerance (USA, 1916)

Mères Françaises (France, 1917)

The Dying Swan (Russia, 1917)

The Outlaw and His Wife (Sweden, 1917)

Thomas Graal's Best Film (Sweden, 1917)

Hearts of the World (USA, 1918)

La Dixième Symphonie (France, 1918)

The City Slicker (USA, 1918)

Sir Arne's Treasure (Sweden, 1919)

World War 2:

Duck Soup (USA, 1933)

Triumph des Willens (Germany, 1935)

Lone White Sail (USSR, 1937)

Jugend (Germany, 1938)

Professor Mamlock (USSR, 1938)

Stagecoach (USA, 1939)

The Roaring Twenties (USA, 1939) 

Der Ewige Jude (Germany, 1940)

Die Rothschilds (Germany, 1940)

Jud Süß (Germany, 1940)

The Great McGinty (USA, 1940)

49th Parallel (UK, 1941)

Citizen Kane (USA, 1941)

Front-Line Girl Friends (USSR, 1941)

Suvorov (USSR, 1941)

The Maltese Falcon (USA, 1941)

In Which We Serve (UK, 1942)

Les Visiteurs du Soir (France, 1942)

To Be or Not to Be (USA, 1942)

Went the Day Well? (UK, 1942)

Le Corbeau (France, 1943)

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (UK, 1943)

Ministry of Fear (USA, 1944)

The Rainbow (USSR, 1944)

Zoya (USSR, 1944)

Kolberg (Germany, 1945)

Les Enfants du Paradis (France, 1945)

They Were Expendable (USA, 1945)

The Killers (USA, 1946)

The Cold War:

Notorious (USA, 1946)

Le Silence est d'or (France, 1947)

Border Street (Poland, 1948)

Young Guard (USSR, 1948)

The Day the Earth Stood Still (USA, 1951)

A Generation (Poland, 1954)

Five Boys from Barska Street (Poland, 1954)

Fourteen Lives in Danger (Hungary, 1954)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (USA, 1956)

Merry-Go-Round (Hungary, 1956)

Professor Hannibal (Hungary, 1956)

The Man on the Tracks (Poland, 1956)

House at the Terminus (Czechoslovakia, 1957)

Kanal (Poland, 1957)

School for Fathers (Czechoslovakia, 1957)

The House I Live In (USSR, 1957)

The Ballad of a Soldier (USSR, 1958)

Destiny of a Man (USSR, 1959)

Le Trou (France, 1960)

The Manchurian Candidate (USA, 1962)

Dr. Strangelove (USA, 1964)

Weekend (France, 1967)

Teorema (Italy, 1968)

Handcuffs (Yugoslavia, 1969)

Larks on a String (Czechoslovakia, 1969)

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (France, 1972)

The Master and Margarita (Yugoslavia, 1972)

The Illumination (Poland, 1973)

Land of Promise (Poland, 1975)

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Filmography

Popiół i diament (Ashes and Diamonds). Dir. Adrzej  Wajda. KADR, 1958. Poland. 

Бронено́сец «Потёмкин (Battleship Potemkin). Dir. Sergei M. Eisenstein. Goskino, 1925.  Soviet Union.

Casablanca. Dir. Michael Curtiz. Warner Bros., 1942. USA

Civilization. Dir. Reginald Barker, Dir. Thomas H. Ince, Dir. Raymond B. West. Triangle Film Corporation, 1915. USA.

Летят журавли (The Cranes are Flying). Dir. Mikhail Kalatozov.  Mosfilm (Warner Bros.), 1957. Soviet Union.

Th Great Dictator. Dir. Charlie Chaplin. Charles Chaplin Film Corporation, 1940. USA

Hans Westmar. Dir. Franz Wenzler. Seigel-Monopolfilm, 1933. Germany

Der Student von Prag (The Student of Prague). Dir. Paul Wegener, Dir. Stellan Rye. Deutsche Bioscop, 1913. Germany

Незабываемый 1919 год (The Unforgettable Year 1919). Dir. Mikheil Chiaureli. Mosfilm, 1951. Soviet Union.

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