War and war impact movies you think every one should see

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106. More, some with the civilian side,

Watch on the Rhine (1943), Bette Davis, Paul Lukas. A German, his American wife and children leave disrupted Europe in 1940 for America where they become involved in wartime intrigue. Based on Lillian Hellman's 1941 screenplay.

Casablanca, 1942, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henri. Classic WWII drama and love story set in Vichy French Morocco.

The Stranger, 1946, suspense drama, Orson Welles first film noir, Loretta Young. A war crimes investigator traces a high ranking Nazi fugitive to a Conn. town just after the war.

The Sorrow and the Pity, 1969 documentary by Marcel Ophuls about the collaboration between the Vichy government and Nazis in France and the French Resistance. Interviews with a Nazi officer, collaborators and Resistance workers.

Tender Comrade, 1943, Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan. Women at the homefront work and live communally while their husbands are at war.

The More the Merrier, 1943, Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Chas. Coburn. Comedy focusing on the wartime housing shortage in Washington, DC, George Stevens.

From Here to Eternity, 1953 Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Cliff, Donna Reed, personal drama among soldiers stationed in Hawaii just before the Pearl Harbor WII attack there.

Pearl Harbor, Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, 2001. Romantic WWII period drama in Hawaii at the time of the 1941 Japanese attack.

Sophie's Choice, 1982, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Set in Brooklyn, 1947 drama based around WWII Holocaust survivor, Sophie.

The Pianist, 2002 drama, Polish musician struggles and survives in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.

Tea with Mussolini, 1999, semi autobiographical film about a young boy (Franco Zeffirelli) growing up in fascist WWII Italy with a group of English and American women. Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Cher.