Das Boot: The Director's Cut
History is written by the winners. This axiom is so old and has been attributed to so many persons over the centuries - Pliny the Elder said something like this, and so have such historical figures as Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill - that it seems as though it's become ingrained in history buffs' DNA. Whether you accept the idea that history, indeed, is often written in such a way that it favors the viewpoint of the winning side of a conflict at the expense of the losers' or not, if you carefully watch war movies about World War II - especially those made before the late 1960s - there's no doubt that films made by the former Allied powers (China, France, Great Britain, the Union of Soviet Social Republics, the United States and their allies) tend to prove that the axiom is more or less true. For instance, if you are an average American movie watcher (not necessarily a war film buff), chances are tha...