Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army of Shadows is an impeccably crafted docudrama about the French Resistance told from the perspective of Resistance fighters moving between safe houses, assassinating informants, and constantly looking over their shoulder for the inevitable arrival of their own killers. Despite its semi-fictionalized storytelling, it’s a masterpiece of World War II-related cinema. But it’s rarely included on lists of the best WWII movies, because it was instantly dismissed upon release in 1969.