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An anti-war film is a movie that is perceived as having an anti-war theme. Some are war movies that show the negative aspects of war, while others satirize war in other ways. Many complex films may be seen as anti-war by some people, and pro-war by others.

Some seemingly anti-war films have been criticized as not truly being anti-war. They may glorify or appear to glorify that version of masculinity that emphasizes violence and action.^[1]

A record number of anti-war films were in production in 2007. ^[2]

List

Some films that are often thought of as anti-war films are:

• 1969 (1988)
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
• Age of Innocence [3] (1977)
• All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
• Apocalypse Now (1979)
• Arlington West: The Film (2005)
• Baghdad ER (2006)
• Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
• The Beast (1988)
• The Bedford Incident (1965)
• The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
• Birdy (1983)
• Blood Diamond
• Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
• Boy Soldiers [4] (1990)
• 'Breaker' Morant (1979)
• Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)
• Catch 22 (1970)
• Cavalcade (film) (1933)
• Come and See (1985)
• Coming Home (1978)
• The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
• Cross of Iron (1977)
• Das Boot (1981)
• The Day After (1983)
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
• The Deer Hunter (1978)
• Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
• Die Brücke (1959)
• Die Weiße Rose (1982)
• Dirty War (2004)
• Downfall (2004)
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
• F.T.A. (1972)
• Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
• Fear and Desire (1953)
• The Four Feathers (2002)
• From Here to Eternity (1953)
• Full Metal Jacket (1987)
• Fünf letzte Tage [5] (1982)
• Gallipoli (1981)
• Gandhi (1982)
• The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971)
• Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (2007)
• Grace is Gone (2007)
• Grand Illusion (1937)
• Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
• The Great Dictator (1940)
• Harsh Times (2006)
• High Treason (1928)
• Hotel Rwanda (2004)
• How I Won the War (1967)
• In the Valley of Elah (2007)
• J'Accuse (1919) [6], remade (1938) [7]
• Jarhead (2005)
• Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
• The Killing Fields (1984)
• King of Hearts (1966)
• Ladybug Ladybug (1963)
• Les Carabiniers (1963)
• Letters from Iwo Jima (2007)
• Life Is Beautiful (1997)
• Lions for Lambs (2007)
• Lord of War (2005)
• Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
• My Name is Ivan (1962)
• Neighbours (film) (1952)
• Night and Fog (film) (1955))
• No Man's Land (2001)
• On the Beach (1957)
• Paths of Glory (1957)
• The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
• Redacted (2007)
• Rendition (2007)
• The Road to Guantanamo (2006)
• Rome, Open City (1945)
• The Sand Pebbles (1966)
• Schindler's List (1993)
• Shame (1968)
• Sir! No Sir! (2006)
• Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
• Sophie's Choice (1982)
• Sophie Scholl - The Final Days (2005)
• Stalingrad (1993)
• The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
• Submarine Attack (1954)
• The Thin Red Line (1998)
• Things to Come (1936)
• Tigerland (2000)
• Two Women (1960)
• The Wall (1982)
• Joyeux Noël (2005)

References

• ^ Chaudhry, Lakshmi. "When Boys Will be Jarheads". AlterNet. November 18, 2005.

Posted Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:22pm AEST]".

• ^  "Record Crop of Anti-War Films to Hit Cinemas.

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