Based on the autobiographical memoirs “The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945”, The Pianist depicts the life of the Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman in Warsaw during German occupation in WW II.
Based on the bestseller “We were Soldiers Once … and Young” written by Lieutenant General Harold G. Moore and war journalist Joseph L. Galloway, We were Soldiers tells the story of the US preparations shortly before entering the Vietnam War and then focuses on the 1st Battalion of the 7th Cavalry Regiment in the Battle of the La Drang Valley, th...
Written, directed and co-produced by Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk, which actually is less of a typical war movie, but rather a film about survival and heroism, tells the story of the evacuation of about 400,000 Allied soldiers from Dunkerque, a town in northern France at the Belgian border, in May - June 1940 during WW II.