Valkyrie

There are an infinite number of stories to tell about WWII. Valkyrie is the story of Colonel Clause von Stauffenberg's plan to assassinate Adolph Hitler, and it is a story worth telling! The film's best trick is to keep you in suspense even though you already know how it turns out!
This is also a story most people do not know. We have been taught that Hitler's forces were terrible people, and I often wondered how they could be united in agreement with his ultimate plan. Turns out they weren't, and that there are people with integrity everywhere. Valkyrie was an operation taken over by a small group of high officers, and their attempt to use it to unseat the Fuhrer near the end of his weakening push for supremacy.
The cast is excellent, the performances are believable and forceful, and the story is well told cinematically: sad, gripping, and hopeful all at the same time. It is a solid movie all round.
Just a small note - the casting is interesting. Eddie Izzard, whom I know mainly from his standup comedy, plays a collaborating communications officer General Erich Fellgiebel. Bill Nighy moves from the latest Pirates of the Caribbean and Hot Fuzz to his very sympathetic role here as Friederich Olbricht, who is against Hitler, but having trouble doing something about him. And Terrence Stamp is a person who actually lived through the Blitz as a child, and not only played idealist Colonel General Ludwig Beck, but acted as consultant to the director for the scenes where von Stauffenberg's family is hiding from the bombs.

Valkyrie is an MGM, U/A Release directed by Bryan Singer, starring Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy, Terrence Stamp, Eddie Izzard, and Tom Wilkinson