For war: - Generation Kill (is actually a mini-series, but in my opinion, it's the greatest war movie/show ever) - Band of Brothers - Black Hawk Down - Letters from Iwo Jima Gangster: - Goodfellas - Casino - Donnie Brasco - The Departed - Road to Perdition - A Bronx Tale - American Gangster - Layer Cake Other great films: - There Will Be Blood - My Left Foot - No Country For Old Men - The Road - Fight Club - The Aviator.
Witness for the Prosecution (1957) Fantastic Voyage (1966) The Jackal (1997) Sahara, I prefer the original 1943 film but the 2005 version isn't bad. And if you like sci-fi movies, First Men In the Moon (1964). Ray Harryhausen did the special effects.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.