These films, naturally, stretch across multiple genres, from comedy, to fantasy, to war.

This would prove to be one of the most famous and pivotal battles of the war.

TheGettysburgmovie tells the tale of the soldiers of the Northern Union.

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The movie follows an Italian Jewish family that is abducted and sent to a concentration camp by Nazi officers.

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A legion of Union soldiers prepares to charge into the forest in ‘Gettysburg’

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King Edward Longshanks (Patrick McGoohan) in ‘Braveheart’

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The main cast of ‘Life is Beautiful’

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A decorated solider wears a blank expression as he stands in a cemetery for soldiers.

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Two American soldiers hold their rifles close and lie on their backs in tall grass in ‘The Thin Red Line’

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Lieutenant Commander Ron Hunter looking at a person offscreen in Crimson Tide

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George Clooney as Archie, Mark Wahlberg as Troy, and Ice Cube as Elgin staring ahead in Three Kings

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Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis) runs into battle with British soldiers, a musket slung across his back

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Itzhak Stern talking to someone off-camera in Schindler’s List

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A group of soldiers standing in a wrecked city turning around and looking up in Saving Private Ryan

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