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Gettysburg is awesome. Not many films these days would try to portray the Confederates as people and make you sad as they die in their droves.

No mention at all of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Dreadful.

The Enemy Below (1957) is a good one. Not only a classic, but it shows both sides of the engagement (a USN Destroyer Escort and a Kriegsmarine U-Boat) and humanizes them, whilst keeping them as competent adversaries. You want both crews and commanders to survive by the end, essentially.