Clouting is curating a major new exhibition that goes behind the scenes of some of the most famous war movies, from The Dam Busters to Das Boot to War Horse.
The museum last held a war movie show in 1970; a very different exhibition in that technology meant they could only use stills.
“It makes me realise just how big and how enduring the genre is, there are so many war films.
Clouting said the show was “an idea that the museum had wanted to grapple with for a long time”.