slacker03150 posted... to be fair Im not really sure how fun most of my list is. The wild robot and the iron giant are probably the most lighthearted of the bunch.
Persepolis - a coming of age story of a girl growing up in the aftermath of the Iranian revolution.
Funan - a woman searches for her son after they are separated in the khamer rouge revolution.
approved for adoption - the story of an orphan of the Korean War getting adopted by a western family and his struggles with growing up straddling the two cultures.
grave of the fireflies - a pair of siblings struggling to survive in the war ravaged Japan.
when the wind blows - an elderly English couple try to maintain a normal life in the aftermath of a nearby nuclear strike.
barefoot gen - a young Japanese boy tries his best to find a life in the aftermath of the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima. Extremely graphic depictions of the bomb.
The day of the crows - a near feral boy raised by his tyrant of a father in a haunted forest must leave the forest to find help for his father and meats a girl named Manon.
the breadwinner - a young girl living under taliban rule must disguise herself as a boy in order to provide for her family after her fathers arrest.
the iron giant - a boy living in Cold War America finds a giant killer robot with no interest in killing.
Ethel and ernest - a biography of two normal people meeting, falling in love, getting married, and growing old together set in London from the 1920s to 1970s
the wild robot - a displaced robot tries to find its purpose on an uninhabited island as it finds there is more to it than what it was programmed.
Don't watch the boy in stripe pajamas pororin!