Before Dawn

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.

Runtime

2h 13m

Director

Lewis Milestone

Cast

Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray

In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.

Runtime

1h 55m

Director

Elia Kazan

Cast

James Dean, Julie Harris, Raymond Massey

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

Runtime

3h 15m

Director

Steven Spielberg

Cast

Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes

Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds his own sinister factory of death.

Runtime

1h 52m

Director

Claude Chabrol

Cast

Charles Denner, Michèle Morgan, Danielle Darrieux

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh.

Runtime

3h

Director

Alain Corneau

Cast

Gérard Depardieu, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Deneuve