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Each title says who it's good for, and who it isn't. Tap what you want tonight, or say no to one and why.

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  1. The Pianist 2002

    Film

    The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.

    The sides of The Pianist

    • A pianist hiding in Warsaw
    • Years alone in empty flats
    • Music for an enemy officer

    Good for you if

    • you like a quiet performance of pure survival.
    • you like a true story that stays with you.
    • you like watching someone hold on through everything.

    Bad for you if

    • the Holocaust shown in detail is too much tonight.
    • two and a half hours is too long for your evening.

    About: survival · art · humanity

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  2. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.

    The sides of 12 Years a Slave

    • A free man kidnapped into slavery
    • Twelve years on plantations
    • A hope he never lets go of

    Good for you if

    • you like performances that are hard to watch and impossible to forget.
    • you want history shown without looking away.
    • you like a true story taken from Solomon Northup's own memoir.

    Bad for you if

    • the cruelty of slavery shown in full is too much tonight.
    • whippings shown at length are too hard for you.

    About: slavery · survival · dignity

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  3. Oppenheimer 2023

    Film

    The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

    The sides of Oppenheimer

    • The man who built the bomb
    • A secret town in the desert
    • A hearing that decides his fate

    Good for you if

    • you like a lead performance carried by the eyes.
    • you like rooms full of brilliant people arguing.
    • you want to feel the first test in your chest.

    Bad for you if

    • three hours of talking is too much for one evening.
    • you want action. It's mostly meetings and hearings.
    • you want a story told in order. It jumps between periods.

    About: guilt · power · science

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  4. Band of Brothers 2001

    Series

    Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.

    The sides of Band of Brothers

    • The paratroopers of Easy Company
    • A night jump over Normandy on D-Day
    • The Battle of the Bulge in winter

    Good for you if

    • you want a war story built from the real men's interviews and letters.
    • you like soldiers who become brothers, from training in Georgia to the end.
    • you want to follow one company from Normandy to Bastogne and the end of the war.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch men wounded and killed in combat.
    • you need some lightness, and the cold of Bastogne and the camps are too much for you.

    About: brotherhood · courage · war

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  5. The Pacific 2010

    Series

    Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. A companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers.

    The sides of The Pacific

    • Three real Marines in the Pacific war
    • Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa
    • Coming home after the fighting

    Good for you if

    • you want the true stories of Leckie, Basilone and Sledge.
    • you want to understand the war against Japan island by island.
    • you like battle scenes on the scale of a film.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch combat deaths filmed up close.
    • the toll of war on real men's minds is too much for you.

    About: war · brotherhood · trauma

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  6. Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.

    The sides of The Imitation Game

    • Breaking the Nazi code
    • A genius nobody likes
    • A secret he couldn't tell

    Good for you if

    • you like a race against time won with maths.
    • you like a brilliant, awkward lead performance.
    • you like a true story about the people who broke the Enigma code.

    Bad for you if

    • you want war action. This one happens at desks.
    • a genius punished for being gay is too hard for you to watch.

    About: genius · secrecy · injustice

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  7. As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.

    The sides of Saving Private Ryan

    • The Normandy landing
    • Eight men looking for one
    • A bridge to hold

    Good for you if

    • you want to feel what a battle is really like.
    • you like Tom Hanks as a captain whose hand won't stop shaking.
    • you like a battle you feel in your seat. The landing on Omaha Beach opens the film.

    Bad for you if

    • very graphic battle wounds are too much for you.
    • nearly three hours is too much for one evening.

    About: duty · sacrifice · brotherhood

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  8. Hacksaw Ridge 2016

    Film

    WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

    The sides of Hacksaw Ridge

    • A medic who refuses to carry a gun
    • A cliff in Okinawa
    • One more, Lord, help me get one more

    Good for you if

    • you like a hero driven by faith and conviction.
    • you like Andrew Garfield as a soft-spoken medic who won't carry a rifle.
    • you want a war story that really happened.

    Bad for you if

    • very graphic battle wounds are too much for you.
    • you don't watch war films. Half the film is the battle for the ridge.

    About: faith · courage · conscience

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  9. When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment, Bruno embarks on a dangerous journey inside the camp's walls.

    The sides of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

    • A Nazi officer's son near a camp
    • A friend on the other side of the fence
    • Innocence that can't see

    Good for you if

    • you're ready to be moved by a friendship across a camp fence.
    • you can take a story without comfort.

    Bad for you if

    • a concentration camp seen through a child is too much tonight.
    • you want the Holocaust told from real accounts. This is an invented story, taken from a novel.

    About: innocence · friendship · evil

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  10. Waltz with Bashir 2008

    Documentary

    A film director from Israel interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

    The sides of Waltz with Bashir

    • An Israeli director who can't remember his war
    • Interviews with fellow veterans of Lebanon, 1982
    • Animated memories that end on real footage

    Good for you if

    • you want to know what a war does to the memory of those who fought it.
    • you like a director investigating his own past.
    • you like dreamlike animated images, like soldiers rising from the sea at night.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather not see a war documentary in animation.
    • you won't read subtitles. It's in Hebrew.
    • you can't take a film about guilt and the dead of a war, seen through a soldier's nightmares.

    About: memory · guilt · war

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  11. At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

    The sides of Apocalypse Now

    • A captain sent upriver to kill a colonel
    • Helicopters and Wagner
    • A jungle that drives men mad

    Good for you if

    • you like images of war that look like a fever dream.
    • you like a journey into darkness.
    • you like The Doors and Wagner over burning jungle.

    Bad for you if

    • two and a half hours of slow descent is too much for you.
    • you can't take much madness tonight. Soldiers on acid and men losing their minds fill the trip upriver.
    • brutal war scenes are too much for you.

    About: madness · war · morality

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  12. The Irishman 2019

    Film

    Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.

    The sides of The Irishman

    • A hitman looking back from a nursing home
    • Jimmy Hoffa
    • Decades of the mob

    Good for you if

    • you like a slow, reflective gangster story.
    • you like legends acting together one last time.
    • you like an ending about loneliness and regret.

    Bad for you if

    • three and a half hours is far too long for you.
    • you want a fast gangster film.

    About: loyalty · ageing · regret

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  13. The Wind Rises 2013

    Anime

    A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.

    The sides of The Wind Rises

    • An engineer who dreams of airplanes
    • The great Tokyo earthquake of 1923
    • A love story shadowed by tuberculosis

    Good for you if

    • you like a quiet film about a life of work and dreams.
    • you like a gentle love story that knows time is short.
    • you want the life of the real man who designed Japan's Zero fighter.

    Bad for you if

    • you don't watch anime.
    • you want air battles, and this is about drawing planes, not flying them in war.

    About: creation · love · war

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  14. The Crown 2016

    Series

    The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

    The sides of The Crown

    • Elizabeth II from her young reign to old age
    • Weekly meetings with her Prime Ministers
    • A royal family torn between duty and love

    Good for you if

    • you like the second half of the 20th century seen from inside Buckingham Palace.
    • you like a family drama where a sister, a husband and children all come second to the Crown.
    • you like who really decides things between the palace and Downing Street.

    Bad for you if

    • you need momentum, and many episodes are quiet conversations in palace rooms.
    • six seasons of royal life is too much for you.

    About: duty · family · the monarchy

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  15. In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.

    The sides of Grave of the Fireflies

    • Two orphaned children in wartime Japan
    • An abandoned bomb shelter as a home
    • A tin of fruit drops

    Good for you if

    • you want a film that leaves you crying.
    • you want to see the war from the side of Japanese civilians.
    • you like a brother trying to keep his little sister alive.

    Bad for you if

    • you need some hope by the end.
    • you can't bear to watch children go hungry.
    • you don't watch anime.

    About: war · childhood · pride · hunger

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  16. Jojo Rabbit 2019

    Film

    Jojo, a lonely German boy during World War II has his world shaken when he learns that his single mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home. Influenced by a buffoonish imaginary version of Adolf Hitler, he begins to question his beliefs and confront the conflict between propaganda and his own humanity.

    The sides of Jojo Rabbit

    • A boy in the Hitler Youth
    • An imaginary friend who is Hitler
    • A girl hidden in the walls

    Good for you if

    • you like satire that dares to laugh at Nazis.
    • you like a comedy that suddenly breaks your heart.
    • you like a ten-year-old boy who starts to question everything he was taught.

    Bad for you if

    • a Jewish girl hiding in the walls from the Gestapo is too much for you.
    • you'd rather not see war up close. Children are handed weapons in the final battle.

    About: innocence · hate · love

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  17. Chernobyl 2019

    Series

    The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.

    The sides of Chernobyl

    • The night a reactor exploded
    • Scientists against the lies of a state
    • Men sent onto the roof

    Good for you if

    • you like dread that never lets go.
    • you want to understand a real disaster.
    • you can take a grim, unflinching story.

    Bad for you if

    • radiation sickness shown in detail is too hard for you.
    • you can't watch animals being shot. Soldiers clear the zone of the pets left behind.

    About: truth · sacrifice · lies

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  18. Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.

    The sides of The Last Samurai

    • An American officer captured by samurai
    • A winter in a mountain village
    • A last charge

    Good for you if

    • you like sword battles and cherry blossoms.
    • you like a broken soldier finding honour.
    • you like a story about duty and dignity.

    Bad for you if

    • two and a half hours is too long for your evening.
    • battlefield deaths are too much for you.

    About: honour · change · redemption

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  19. Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.

    The sides of There Will Be Blood

    • An oil man who wants everything
    • A young preacher he hates
    • I drink your milkshake

    Good for you if

    • you like watching Daniel Day-Lewis disappear into a ruthless oil man.
    • you like a slow, heavy story of ambition.
    • you like a strange, unsettling score.

    Bad for you if

    • over two and a half hours at this pace is too much.
    • you need someone to root for. Plainview cons and crushes everyone in his way.

    About: greed · faith · loneliness

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  20. The Revenant 2015

    Film

    In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

    The sides of The Revenant

    • A man left for dead in the snow
    • A bear attack you feel in your bones
    • Revenge across a frozen wilderness

    Good for you if

    • you like real landscapes filmed in natural light.
    • you like watching someone stay alive against everything.
    • you like the American frontier of the 1820s, fur trappers and all.

    Bad for you if

    • a bear mauling and raw wounds are too much for you.
    • you want a story told in words. There are few.
    • two and a half hours of struggle is too long for you.

    About: survival · revenge · nature

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