A Brief History of World War II Movies

Stalingrad, 1995
Most Hollywood war movies revolve around acts of heroism by famous, square-jawed actors. The German film Stalingrad, however, is a breed apart: an utterly unforgiving look at the Battle of Stalingrad — one of the bloodiest in modern history — in which the Russians handed Germany their first serious defeat of World War II, at great cost.

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