Stalingrad
WWII's largest and deadliest battle took place at Stalingrad and has been a hot topic for scholars for decades. While other films have tried to use the battle as a scene to propel further drama, Stalingrad tells the battle as it was, and uses it as the primary focus. Director Joseph Vilsmaier shows the battle from the German perspective, using a small battalion of soldiers as the main characters. He shows the specific atrocities they endured while humanizing the soldiers.