1. 100 Best War Movies of All Time - Rotten Tomatoes
From peacetime to frontlines, from coming home to left behind: These are the 100 best-reviewed war movies of all time.
2. The 50 best war movies of all time - TimeOut
24 sep 2024 · Survey the history of film to highlight the absolute best war movies of all time, including plenty of action, explosions, stunts and more.
Time to see that war face
3. How soon is too soon to make movies about a war? - BBC News
7 feb 2014 · War movies shape the way we see wars. Gillo ... "Hollywood didn't want to go near the Vietnam War because it was so controversial.
Two new movies - The Patrol and Lone Survivor - are set against the backdrop of the Afghanistan War, but is it too soon for drama to reflect the realities of the conflict?
4. The 30 Greatest War Films - Variety
24 jul 2023 · These are the best movies about World War I, WW2, Vietnam and more, from "Inglourious Basterds" to "Saving Private Ryan."
These are the best movies about World War I, WW2, Vietnam and more, from "Inglourious Basterds" to "Saving Private Ryan."
5. What Are The Best War Movies of All Time? - No Film School
I want to get into the best war movies of all time, dig into their history, tropes, and see what we can learn from all these stories.
Get ready for battle with our comprehensive list of the best war movies ever made.
6. Why are we so obsessed with films about the second world war?
17 jul 2014 · It's impossible to come up with a definitive list but, for comparison, Wikipedia's list of films about the 1914-18 war totals a little more than ...
Andrew Pulver: The events they depict happened decades ago and they're often historically dubious. Yet second world war films are more in fashion than ever. Why can't Hollywood get enough?
7. Seventeen Great War Films: One Army Officer's List - Modern War Institute
Acknowledging the many possible criteria of a “great” film, I'm going to go out on a limb and propose seventeen great war films. To be sure, these choices are ...
Editor’s note: Welcome to another installment of our weekly War Books series! The premise is simple and straightforward. We ask an expert on a particular subject to recommend five books […]
8. War movies impact Americans' perspectives - Old Gold & Black
29 mrt 2022 · Since the beginning of the semester, I've probably watched more war ... We can take history courses, read books or watch war films that get it ...
Five weeks ago, we woke up to a different world — a world where the Russian government was mobilizing its troops against Ukraine. A military conflict, a refugee crisis and an international threat of this scale had not been seen by this many people living in the world today. Our world just came one step...
9. Digital History
Yet even the most unapologetically bellicose films raise questions about loss and the human cost and waste of war. War movies take radically different forms.
War films are among the oldest film genres. Only a few hours after the United States declared war on Spain in 1898, nickelodeons screened a jingoistic short film called Tearing Down the Flag.
10. Defining the War Movie Genre (Free Outline Template) | No Film School
Like any other subgenre, war movies come with their own set of tropes and audience expectations. Today we're going to go over those ideas and talk about some ...
War movies are one of the consistent subgenres of Hollywood, but how can you write one? We go over the tropes and expectations of the war film and guide you on your quest to write one. Read on!
11. 10 great films about children in wartime - BFI
29 jan 2015 · Given its devastating scale, more films have been made about the Second World War than any other conflict and it features heavily on the list, ...
Not just one of the great school films, Louis Malle’s Au revoir les enfants also belongs to a grand tradition of powerful dramatisations of the experiences of children during wartime.
12. Do All War Films Glorify War? - Medium
3 mrt 2022 · It is presented as the natural order: of course there's a war going on, that's just how things are. Having war-for-the-sake-of-war allows for ...
In a 1973 interview for the Chicago Tribune, The 400 Blows (1959) director François Truffaut stated that, ‘Every film about war ends up…
13. Why there's no such thing as an antiwar film - Los Angeles Times
10 nov 2023 · “I doubt there is any such thing as an antiwar film,” veteran movie critic David Thomson writes in his new survey of war movies, “The Fatal ...
As war at its most brutal rears its head, veteran film critic David Thomson's latest book, 'The Fatal Alliance,' wants us to rethink the war-movie genre.
14. Military Times' 10 best Vietnam War movies
29 mrt 2018 · “Most of 'em got nothing. They're poor. They're the unwanted. Yet they're fighting for our society and our freedom. It's weird, isn't it?
In honor of Vietnam War Veterans Day, we put together a top-10 list of films — excluding documentaries — we consider the best about the Vietnam War.
