 | Twelve O'Clock High (Special Edition)
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.15 This is a classic that follows the lives of a bomber command through their good and bad times.
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 | The Longest Day (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.99 Something like this would be impossible to make today. This film has so many big named actors from the US, Britian, France and Germany and follows them through the Invasion of Normandy.
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 | Tora! Tora! Tora!
Buy used from: $2.10 Done much in the same way as "The Longest Day", Tora Tora Tora follows both the Americans and Japanese in the lead up to and the attack on Pearl Harbor. The battle scenes are equally amazing considering this was all done before CGI.
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 | Das Boot - The Director's Cut
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $3.20 This German film follows a U-boat crew on a harrowing tour in the Atlantic. A must see just to have an appreciation for what submariners everywhere go through.
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 | Band of Brothers
Buy new: $44.49 / Used from: $21.15 This mini-series is one of the best ever done. Based on the book of the real account of Easy Company 2/506 PIR 101st Airborne Division and follows them from their initial training to their last days in Europe. The battle scenes are well done and each episode is a little different.
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 | The Big Red One - The Reconstruction (Two Disc Special Edition--Widescreen)
Buy used from: $3.00 A great movie that follows a rifle platoon of the 1st Infantry Division from North Africa through the end of the war.
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 | Enemy at the Gates
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.20 Based on a real-life Russian sniper, the film is set in the battle of Stalingrad.
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 | The World At War - Complete Set
Buy used from: $69.99 This is a masterpiece documentary that covers every aspect of the war.
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 | The Bridge on the River Kwai (Limited Edition)
Buy used from: $6.89 This is another classic about Allied POW's in Burma and a commando raid to destroy the bridge they are building.
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 | To End All Wars
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.46 A lesser known film about allied POW's in Burma. This film also has a spiritual aspect to it.
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 | Battle of Britain
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $2.47 This film is a great portrayal of the British pilots who fought off the German Blitz.
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 | Patton (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $4.00 The man, the myth, the legend...Patton! While technically a war film (there are only 3 battle scenes) this film deals mostly with the man himself and his relationships with others such as Bradley and Montgomery. George C. Scott does such a great job in this.
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 | Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.08 A semi-true account of a German industrialist who saves the lives of many Jewish slave laborers. This film shows the horrors that the Nazi regime inflicted on the world.
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 | The Thin Red Line
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $1.77 A somewhat dark and artistic view of WWII but the combat is dead-on. This isn't a great movie per say but it is a good film to see how brutal the war in the Pacific was.
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 | A Bridge Too Far
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $0.90 Another film based on a Cornelius Ryan novel. Much like Longest Day, this film has many well known actors taking somewhat small roles. Great film about the failed attempt to capture Arnhem.
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 | The Desert Fox
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $6.21 James Mason does a great job portraying General Rommel.
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