Also— Schindler’s list is conspicuous in it’s absence. Using The Pianist as the token Holocaust movie does a disservice to Schindler as well as movies like Boy in the Striped Pajamas that stand apart in their own right.

I can’t imagine why Casablanca wouldn’t count, but I appreciate that this list stuck more to movies that were about the battles in the war, as soon as you step outside that you start to encounter movies like The English Patient, Pan’s Labyrinth, etc. in which the war plays a central/pivotal role, but the movie is not…