Anti-war film

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An anti-war film is a film that emphasizes the pain, horror, and human costs of armed conflict. While some films criticize armed conflicts in a general sense, others focus on acts within a specific war, such as the use of poison gas or the genocidal killing of civilians (e.g., Hotel Rwanda, 2004). Some anti-war films such as Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) use parody and black comedy to satirize wars and conflicts. An anti-war film's goal is to show the physical and psychological destruction warfare causes to the soldiers and to innocent civilians.

Anti-war films

Some films with anti-war themes include, but not limited to:

• 1969 (1988)
• A Generation (1955)
• A Midnight Clear (1992)
• All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
• All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
• Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987)
• The Americanization of Emily (1964)
• Apocalypse Now (1979)
• Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
• Avatar (2009)
• A Very Long Engagement (2004)
• Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
• Baghdad ER (2006)
• Barefoot Gen (1983)
• The Battle of Algiers (1967)
• Battle Circus (1953)
• The Beast (1988)
• The Bedford Incident (1965)
• Beach Red (1967)
• The Big Red One (1980)
• Big Wednesday (1978)
• Birdy (1983)
• Blood Diamond (2006)
• Border (1997)
• Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
• The Boys in Company C (1978)
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
• The Boy With Green Hair (1948)
• Brothers (2009)
• The Bubble (2006)
• Bullet in the Head (1990)
• By Dawn's Early Light (1990)
• The Burmese Harp (1956)
• Canadian Bacon (1995)
• Casualties of War (1989)
• Catch 22 (1970)
• Cavalcade (1933)
• Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
• Chattahoochee (1989)
• Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
• Combat Shock (1986)
• Coming Home (1978)
• Come and See (1985)
• Cross of Iron (1977)
• Das Boot (1981)
• The Day After (1983)
• The Dawn Patrol (1938)
• The Deer Hunter (1978)
• Die Brücke (1959)
• Downfall (2004)
• Dirty War (2004)
• Distant Thunder (1988)
• Don't Cry it's Only Thunder (1982)
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
• Enemies of the People (2009)
• The Enemy Below (1957)
• Fail Safe (2000)
• Fail-Safe (1964)
• Fear and Desire (1953)
• Fires on the Plain (1959)
• Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
• For the Boys (1991)
• Fort Apache (1948)
• F.T.A. (1972)
• Friendly Fire (1979)
• Full Metal Jacket (1987)
• Gallipoli (1981)
• Gardens of Stone (1987)
• Go Tell the Spartans (1978)
• Gone with the Wind (1939)
• Good Guys Wear Black (1977)
• Grace Is Gone (2007)
• Grand Illusion (1937)
• Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
• The Great Dictator (1940)
• Greetings (1968)
• Hair (1979)
• Hamburger Hill (1987)
• The Hasty Heart (1949)
• Hearts and Minds (1974)
• Heaven & Earth (1993)
• Hedd Wyn (1992)
• Hell Is for Heroes (1962)
• High Treason (1928)
• Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
• Home of the Brave (2006)
• Hotel Rwanda (2004)
• Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988)
• How I Won the War (1967)
• The Hurt Locker(2008)
• I'll Remember April (1999)
• Iluminados por el fuego (2005)
• In Country (1989)
• In the Valley of Elah (2007)
• In the Year of the Pig (1968)
• Jacknife (1989)
• J'accuse (1919)
• Jacob's Ladder (1990)
• Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
• Journey from the Fall (2007)
• Joyeux Noël (2005)
• Kanal (1956)
• Kelly's Heroes (1970)
• King of Hearts (1966)
• King Rat (1965)
• Ladybug Ladybug (1963)
• L'Ennemi Intime (2007)
• Les Carabiniers (1963)
• Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
• Lions for Lambs (2007)
• Little Big Man (1970)
• Lord of War (2005)
• Main Hoon Na (2004)
• MASH (1970)
• The Memory of Justice (1978)
• The Men (1950)
• Men in War (1957)
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
• Neighbours (1952)
• No Man's Land (2001)
• Off Limits (1988)
• Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
• On the Beach (1957)
• The Outsider (1961)
• The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
• The Panama Deception (1992)
• The Peacemaker (1997)
• Paths of Glory (1957)
• Platoon (1986)
• Platoon Leader (1988)
• Pretty Village Pretty Flame (1996)
• The Promise of Love (1980)
• Purple Hearts (1984)
• Purple Sunset (2001)
• The Rack (1956)
• The Red Baron (2008)
• Redacted (2007)
• Rendition (2007)
• The Road to Guantanamo (2006)
• Salvador (1986)
• The Sand Pebbles (1966)
• Savior (1998)
• Schindler's List (1993)
• Shame (1968)
• She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
• Shenandoah (1965)
• The Siege of Firebase Gloria (1989)
• Sir! No Sir! (2006)
• Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
• So Proudly We Hail! (1943)
• Soldier Blue (1970)
• Some Kind of Hero (1982)
• Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage (2005)
• The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
• Stalingrad (1993)
• Stop-Loss (2008)
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
• Taking Chance (2009)
• Taegukgi (2004)
• Tango Charlie (2005)
• Testament (1983)
• The Thin Red Line (1998)
• Things to Come (1936)
• Threads (1984)
• Tigerland (2000)
• Triage (2009)
• Turtles Can Fly (2004)
• Waltz with Bashir (2008)
• The War (1994)
• The War at Home (1996)
• Two Women (1960)
• Un taxi pour Tobrouk (1960)
• The Visitors (1972)
• War Horse (2011)
• War, Inc. (2008)
• Welcome to Dongmakgol (2005)
• When Hell was in Session (1979)
• When Trumpets Fade (1998)
• Why We Fight (2005)
• Winter Soldier (1972)

References

• ^ Chaudhry, Lakshmi. "When Boys Will be Jarheads". AlterNet. November 18, 2005.
• ^ "Record Crop of Anti-War Films to Hit Cinemas.

External links

• Anti-war films at the Iraq Media Action Project
• Anti-war films at Allmovie
• Antiwar Films Continue to Fizzle At The Box Office

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