Old Films about World War 2- What do you recommend?

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So I've gone down a bit of a rabbit hole regarding Black and White films made about WW2 and would like some suggestions on what films I can watch next.

So far I have watched:

Gift Horse
The Wooden Horse
The Hill
King Rat
Stalag 17
The Colditz Story
The Way Ahead
Ice Cold In Alex

So what do you recommend?
 
Carve Her Name With Pride
Odette (Trivia point, the character played by Trevor Howard in this (Peter Churchill) has an uncredited cameo in a scene with Peter Ustinov)
Went The Day Well?
The Longest Day

Haven't seen "Carve Her Name with Pride" so added to the list, after a quick google seems I have seen "Went The Day Well?" which I though was a great film I just couldn't remember the name!

The Desert Rats is one of my all time favourites.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045679/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Watched this last night, thought it was pretty good!

Also discovered another one called "A Captive Heart" which has been added to the watch pile
 
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You've probably seen most of these but just in case:

Dunkirk (John Mills & Richard Attenborough - not the new one).
First of the Few (also known as Spitfire - David Niven)
In Which We Serve
Sink the Bismark
Night Train to Munich

Ice Cold In Alex
Bridge too far
run silent, run deep

B/W films only as requested -
Cockleshell Heroes

Where Eagles Dare
The Battle of the River Plate
Heroes of Telemark

The Cruel Sea.

All added to the pile (even the odd sneaky colour film)


I never knew they did a musical version

Neither did I and I have no inclination to watch it
 
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