Veteran lieutenant Bruce Willis leads a Navy Seal team on a dangerous mission to rescue a US doctor from crisis-torn Nigeria. Powerful anti-war drama, also starring Monica Bellucci
Zack Snyder's stunning action adventure, based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller, is a fictionalised recreation of the historic Battle of Thermopylae. Gerard Butler stars as King Leonidas, the strong-willed ruler of Sparta who assembles 300 of his finest warriors and takes them into battle against the invading Persian forces. While the brave men fight for their country, Queen Gorgo (Lena Headey) desperately tries to rally support for her husband back at home before it's too late. Dominic West, David Wenham, Vincent Regan, Rodrigo Santoro and Michael Fassbender also star.
A raw recruit thrown into the thick of the Vietnam war is drawn into the conflict between two sergeants. Oliver Stone's drama, starring Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe and Tom Berenger
Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's drama, recounting the true-life deeds of crack US paratroop unit Easy Company during World War Two, whose brave exploits made them true American heroes. Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston, Scott Grimes, David Schwimmer and Donnie Wahlberg star
Quentin Tarantino directs this adventurous telling of Nazi-occupied France, and the American soldiers, "The Basterds", who were stationed directly to kill Nazis, causing the Third Reich to fear for their survival. Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger and Mike Myers star.
A German U-boat tries to undermine the British war effort by disrupting shipping lanes and cutting off supplies. Second World War drama, with Jürgen Prochnow and Herbert Grönemeyer
A British colonel in a Japanese PoW camp is ordered to build a railway bridge over a river. David Lean's Oscar-winning Second World War drama, with Alec Guinness and William Holden
An American man brought up by Japanese foster parents has his life turned upside down by events at Pearl Harbour. Wartime drama, with David Janssen, Jeffrey Hunter, Vic Damone and Patricia Owens
A Roman general becomes a gladiator to avenge his wife and child, who were put to death on the orders of the emperor. Oscar-winning epic, starring Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix