The Hill

Name: The Hill
Director: Sidney Lumet
Released: 1965

Sidney Lumet

military discipline psychological torture class conflict human endurance institutional brutality

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Synopsis

North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.