
Stalingrad

A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed under the command of a sadistic captain, the platoon lieutenant leads his men to desert. The platoon members attempt escape from the city, now surrounded by the Soviet Army.
This film along with Das Boot really lays out well the unfathomable suffering these boys had to go through for a good cause. Misery in its purest form, conditions like these could and would break the hardest and toughest of men