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I am not a fan of or expert in the genre of war movies, so for me the only way I can think of to address this question is to largely ignore the part that deals with the notion of a chronological representation. Instead, I have tried to imagine how I would go about running some kind of course about cinema and the second world war.

The results are divided into five sections, where the first section kind of "sets the scene", with films that in some way or other, sometimes quite abstractly, are concerned with the lead-up to the war. The second section includes Hollywood movies about the war. The third is about France under occupation The fourth is about Japan, Italy and Russia. The final section would address the Holocaust via Lanzmann, attempt a deeper look into the Hitler phenomenon via Syberberg, and examine the question of war in more abstract and/or philosophical terms via Malick. Four documentaries are included. So apologies for not quite fulfilling your criteria, but at least I've kept it down to twenty movies.

Part One
1. The Serpent’s Egg (Ingmar Bergman)
2. Cabaret (Bob Fosse)
3. Triple Agent (Eric Rohmer)
4. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)

Part Two
5. Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner)
6. The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean)
7. King Rat (Bryan Forbes)
8. Slaughterhouse-Five (George Roy Hill) – or perhaps the imperfect Catch-22 (Mike Nichols)

Part Three
9. The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophüls)
10. Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
11. Hôtel Terminus (Marcel Ophüls)

Part Four
12. The Human Condition (Masaki Kobayashi)
13. Paisan (Roberto Rossellini)
14. Seven Beauties (Lina Wertmüller)
15. Ivan’s Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky)
16. Come and See (Elem Klimov)

Part Five
17. Shoah (Claude Lanzmann)
18. Sobibor (Claude Lanzmann)
19. Hitler – ein Film aus Deutschland (Hans-Jürgen Syberberg)
20. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)