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Joyeux Noël
Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas), 2005 war drama by Christian Carion about the 1914 WWI Christmas truce; Oscar-nominated French co-production starring Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann, and Guillaume Canet; distinct from the unrelated 2023 Hallmark film of the same name.
Judgment at Nuremberg
Judgment at Nuremberg is a 1961 American courtroom drama directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Spencer Tracy, dramatizing the postwar trial of German judges who served the Nazi regime.
King & Country
King & Country is a 1964 British antiwar drama by Joseph Losey, also known as King and Country, in which Tom Courtenay's WWI private faces court-martial for desertion and Dirk Bogarde defends him; distinct from the for KING & COUNTRY duo and the WorldService Project album.
Kokuho (国宝) (film)
Kokuho (国宝, "National Treasure") is Lee Sang-il's 2025 Japanese drama adapted from Shuichi Yoshida's novel, starring Ryo Yoshizawa as a yakuza's son who becomes a kabuki onnagata; it became Japan's highest-grossing live-action film and earned a 2026 Oscar makeup nomination.
La Grande Illusion
La Grande Illusion (Grand Illusion) is Jean Renoir's 1937 French anti-war film about French POWs in German camps in WWI, starring Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, and Erich von Stroheim, centered on class solidarity across national lines.
La Reine Margot (1994 film)
La Reine Margot (1994), Patrice Chéreau's French historical drama adapted from Dumas, starring Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Virna Lisi; Cannes Prix du jury, five 1995 Césars, two cuts.
Lacombe Lucien
Lacombe Lucien (Lacombe, Lucien) is Louis Malle's 1974 French drama, co-written with Patrick Modiano, about a peasant youth rejected by the Resistance who joins the Gestapo; it won a BAFTA and an Oscar nomination.
Land of Mine
Land of Mine (Under sandet) is Martin Zandvliet's 2015 Danish-German drama about teenage German POWs forced to clear over two million landmines from Denmark's west coast after May 1945; Oscar-nominated, EFA-winning.
Last Flag Flying
Last Flag Flying is a 2017 Richard Linklater comedy-drama, co-written with Darryl Ponicsan from his 2005 novel, starring Cranston, Fishburne, and Carell as Vietnam vets burying a son killed in Iraq.
Le Faux Soir
Le Faux Soir: a fake edition of the collaborationist Brussels daily Le Soir, produced by the Belgian resistance Front de l'Indépendance and distributed at kiosks on 9 November 1943; 50,000 satirical copies ridiculing the Nazi occupier.
Letters from Iwo Jima (硫黄島からの手紙)
Letters from Iwo Jima (硫黄島からの手紙) is Clint Eastwood's 2006 Japanese-language war film, companion to Flags of Our Fathers, starring Ken Watanabe as General Kuribayashi; it won the 79th Academy Award for Sound Editing and the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.
Lin Zexu (1959 film)
Lin Zexu (林则徐, The Opium Wars) is a 1959 Chinese color historical biographical film by Shanghai Haiyan Film Studio, directed by Zheng Junli and Cen Fan, starring Zhao Dan as the Qing commissioner who destroyed opium at Humen; a tenth-anniversary tribute film.
Little Boy (film)
Little Boy is a 2015 World War II faith-based drama directed by Alejandro Monteverde, starring Jakob Salvati, Emily Watson, and Tom Wilkinson. Released by Open Road Films, it earned about $6.5 million on a $20 million budget and a Metacritic score of 30.
The 21
The 21 is a 2024 animated short film (also known as 21 Martyrs) directed by Tod Polson honoring the 21 Coptic Christians beheaded by ISIS in Libya in 2015, made in Neo-Coptic iconography style by 70+ artists from 24+ countries and shortlisted for the 2025 Oscar for Best Animated Short.
The 47
The 47 (El 47) is a 2024 Spanish biographical drama by Marcel Barrena starring Eduard Fernández as bus driver Manolo Vital, who in 1978 drove a line 47 bus to Torre Baró; it shared the 2025 Goya for Best Film.
The 47 Ronin (元禄忠臣蔵) (1941 film)
Genroku Chūshingura (元禄忠臣蔵), released in English as The 47 Ronin, is Kenji Mizoguchi's two-part 1941–1942 Shochiku film adapting Mayama Seika's kabuki cycle about the Akō rōnin vendetta, a government-commissioned wartime production that became a box-office failure and later a celebrated formalist work.
The 47 Ronin (四十七人の刺客) (1994 film)
The 47 Ronin (四十七人の刺客, Shijūshichinin no Shikaku) is a 1994 Toho jidaigeki directed by Kon Ichikawa, starring Ken Takakura as Ōishi Kuranosuke, reinterpreting Chūshingura as an information and economic war.
The Assassins (铜雀台)
The Assassins (铜雀台, Tong Que Tai) is Zhao Linshan's 2012 Chinese historical drama, starring Chow Yun-fat as an aging Cao Cao targeted by trained assassins Ling Ju and Mu Shun; 107 minutes, released 26 September 2012.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (film)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), Mark Herman's adaptation of John Boyne's novel, stars Asa Butterfield and Jack Scanlon as boys on opposite sides of a concentration camp fence; a mixed-reception Holocaust drama widely criticized in education research.
The Burmese Harp (ビルマの竪琴)
The Burmese Harp (ビルマの竪琴, Biruma no Tategoto) is Kon Ichikawa's 1956 Nikkatsu antiwar film, adapted by Natto Wada from Takeyama Michio's novel, about soldier Mizushima becoming a monk in Burma; San Giorgio Prize winner, Oscar-nominated, remade in color in 1985.
The Counterfeiters (הזייפנים)
The Counterfeiters (Hebrew: הזייפנים; original title Die Fälscher) is Stefan Ruzowitzky's 2007 Austrian-German drama, winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, about Salomon Sorowitsch and Operation Bernhard, the Nazi counterfeiting scheme at Sachsenhausen.
The Crucified Lovers (近松物語)
The Crucified Lovers (近松物語, Chikamatsu Monogatari; also A Story from Chikamatsu) is Kenji Mizoguchi's 1954 Daiei film adapting Chikamatsu Monzaemon's 1715 play, starring Kazuo Hasegawa and Kyoko Kagawa as lovers falsely accused of adultery in 17th-century Kyoto.
The Damned (1969 film)
The Damned (La caduta degli dei, Götterdämmerung), Luchino Visconti's 1969 Italy–West Germany melodrama about the von Essenbeck steel family amid the Nazi rise, noted for its X rating, Night of the Long Knives sequence, Jarre score, and Oscar-nominated screenplay.
The Day After
The Day After is ABC's 1983 made-for-TV nuclear-war drama directed by Nicholas Meyer, set in Lawrence, Kansas, watched by over 100 million viewers on November 20, 1983; distinct from the 1909 Griffith short and Hong Sang-soo's 2018 film.
The Deer Hunter
The Deer Hunter (1978), Michael Cimino's Vietnam War drama starring Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Savage, and Meryl Streep; won five Oscars including Best Picture; famous and controversial for its Russian roulette scenes.
The Devils (film)
The Devils is a 1971 British historical drama directed by Ken Russell, starring Oliver Reed as Urbain Grandier and Vanessa Redgrave, adapted from Aldous Huxley's book The Devils of Loudun.
The Dumbfounded King
The Dumbfounded King (El rey pasmado) is a 1991 Spanish-French-Portuguese satirical historical comedy by Imanol Uribe, adapted from Torrente Ballester's 1989 novel, in which young Philip IV's wish to see the queen naked scandalizes the Church; it won eight Goyas.
The Empress Dowager (倾国倾城)
The Empress Dowager (傾國傾城) is a 1975 Shaw Brothers historical drama directed by Li Han-hsiang, starring Lisa Lu as Cixi and Ti Lung as Guangxu; it won three 1975 Golden Horse Awards and was followed by The Last Tempest (1976).
The Empress Yang Kwei Fei
The Empress Yang Kwei Fei (楊貴妃, Yokihi) is Kenji Mizoguchi's 1955 first color film, the first Japan–Hong Kong co-production with Shaw Brothers, starring Machiko Kyo as the Tang consort Yang Guifei, based on Bai Juyi's Song of Everlasting Sorrow.
The Endless Trench
The Endless Trench (La trinchera infinita) is a 2019 Spanish-French drama by Arregi, Garaño, and Goenaga about a Republican who hides in his house for over 30 years after the Spanish Civil War, inspired by the real 'topos' and the 1977 book Los topos.