Here are the best World War II movies to educate and entertain you. Long before he was dueling Darth Vader in Star Wars, Sir Alec Guinness starred in this tour de force WWII film as Colonel ...

and how they shift over time. War movies reflect the artistic impulses of their creators, but they also reflect the attitudes of the times and places in which they were created. A World War II ...

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Here is a list of some of those many movies -- some of which are among the best war movies of all time -- and where they took place.

Ask any cinephile to list the most influential and iconic war movies of all time, and we'd put money on the idea that every single one of them would name Apocalypse Now on their roster.