Sahara (1943)

Sahara is an expertly made war film from 1943 that is designed to build up pro-Allied sentiment (and even pro-Italian sentiment!). The Germans in the film, however, are uniformly ungentlemanly, untrustworthy, and false. It's easy to make fun of Sahara's obviously propagandistic aims, but this is an excellently made war picture shot in the middle of the desert. It's wonderfully acted and beautifully shot, and it even kinda choked me up at the end.