Every decade had a massive World War II movie released, culminating in Saving Private Ryan (1998) and Schindler's List ...

A classic scene from the 1953 film From Here to Eternity, starring Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra and Ernest Borgnine (holding a switchblade) Credit: Photo: Rex Features From Here to Eternity (1953).

The World War 2 movie was set in August 1944 and followed French Resistance fighter Paul Labiche, played by Burt Lancaster, taking on Paul Scofield’s German Colonel Franz von Waldheim.