La infancia de Iván

★ Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival (1962)

Orphaned by the invasion, twelve-year-old Ivan attaches himself to a Soviet unit as a scout and crosses the lines to bring back intelligence with a composure no child should have. Andrei Tarkovsky's first feature cuts between those missions and dreams of the childhood the war took from him.

Why it's free: Free on Mosfilm's own channel; Mosfilm holds the rights to the Soviet-era library it publishes.