Short summaries of anti-war films with rankings (as a number of *'s [1-3]) in terms of importance
War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about naval, air or land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama. It has been strongly associated with the 20th century. The fateful nature of battle scenes means that war films often end with them. Themes explored include combat, survival and escape, camaraderie between soldiers, sacrifice, the futility and inhumanity of battle, the effects of war on society and the moral and human issues raised by war. War films are often categorized by their milieu, such as the Korean War; the most popular subject is the Second World War. The stories told may be fiction, historical drama or biographical. Critics have noted similarities between the Western and the war film.
- All Quiet on the Western Front - 1930 Oscar-winning movie about what was then called the Great War
- Americanization of Emily, The - 1964 Oscar-nominated film written by Paddy Chayefsky
- Breaker Morant - 1980 movie about the court martial of "Breaker" Morant and subordinates during the Second Boer War
- Bridge on the River Kwai, The - 1957 Oscar-winning movie starring Alec Guiness and William Holden
- Dr. Strangelove - 1964 Cold War satire film directed by Stanley Kubrick
- Gallipoli - 1981 movie about two young Australians during World War I
- Paths of Glory - 1957 Stanley Kubrick film starring Kirk Douglas, set in France during World War I
- Quiet American, The - 2002 Philip Noyce movie about a British journalist witness to early CIA involvement in Vietnam
- Sand Pebbles, The - 1966 film revolving about an American gunboat in China during 1926
- Shenandoah - 1965 movie about life in the middle of the American War Between the States
- Why We Fight - 2005 documentary, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival
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Short summaries of anti-war films with rankings (as a number of *'s [1-3]) in terms of importance
Comments on the events of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and on more recent wars, then suggests ten films that focus on "the nasty business of war"; ends by contrasting Obama's and Martin Luther King's Nobel Peace Prize speeches
More short summaries of anti-war films with rankings (as a number of *'s [1-3]) in terms of importance, follow-up to "Memorial Day Alternative"
The introductory paragraph uses material from the Wikipedia article "War film" as of 13 Oct 2018, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.