Three great war films
“Grand Illusion”
Jean Renoir’s 1937 antiwar film set in a World War I POW camp was the first foreign production to earn a best film Oscar nomination.
“Il Generale della Rovere”
Roberto Rossellini directed this award-winning 1959 World War II drama starring famed Italian director Vittorio De Sica as a con man arrested by the Gestapo.
“War and Peace”
Sergei Bondarchuk’s epic adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novel won the 1968 best foreign film Oscar.
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