Dunkirk is easily Nolan’s greatest achievement to date.

This Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film graphically depicts how Denmark treated German prisoners of war.

A vivid documentary about the two-year imprisonment of an American freelance journalist in war-torn Syria. A remarkable chronicle of empathy.

A World War II opus and a humanistic look at those who often don’t make it into the history books.

How a German Jewish, gay, ex-political prisoner, and prosecutor fought East and West German bureaucracies to bring war criminals to court.

Two Czech operatives parachute into Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia with minimal supplies and months-old intel. Their mission: to contact the local resistance forces and assassinate the highest ranking Nazi official.

Within the first 10 minutes, you feel you are safely in the hands of a master.

At 98 minutes, this entertaining and quietly ambitious film never wears out its welcome and stays true to its small-scale intentions.

Director Anne Fontaine’s stirring drama takes religious faith as a starting point and looks at different approaches to compromised belief within a Polish abbey in the disastrous aftermath of World War II.