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Valkyrie: Riding Roughshod Over History?
Luke Turner , January 23rd, 2009 05:31

We've come to expect Hollywood to rewrite history, says Luke Turner. But in the case of Von Stauffenberg, the mono-armed, cycloptic plotter who tried to blow up Hitler, is there even space to do this?

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Das Boot
Scene of Battle: Battle of the Atlantic, World War Two

Behind Enemy Lines: Often regarded as one of the greatest war films ever made, Wolfgang Petersen's 1981 epic uses the inherent claustrophobia of submarine warfare to explore the hard, tense life on board U-96.

Trivia: Das Boot is one of the most expensive German films ever made.