Hunter
m*a*s*h Many opinions would go back to the 1930 movie "All Quiet on the Western Front" as one of if not the first true anti-war film.
Vietnam War
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The Deer Hunter film was released in the year nineteen seventy four. The film is a war drama depicting service in the Vietnam War. The film won best picture at the fifty first academy awards.
Pro-war members of Congress are called hawks; anti-war members are called doves.
The film "Green Berets" starring John Wayne was filmed there. At the time John Wayne intended the film to be the first "supporting the men in Vietnam" movie; in contrast to all the anti-war demonstrators and anti-Vietnam footage and speeches.
Copperheads (Anti-war Democrats)
Anti-war Democrats ("Copperheads")
It's a decidedly anti-war film because of its emphasis on its futility. The ending depicts that the capture of the hill was ultimately futile; and indeed, that allusion to the actual Hamburger Hill (just one of many examples in which hills are taken to be left open for North Vietnamese retaking) suggests that the entire war is futile because Hamburger Hill characterises the lack of concrete objectives in the Vietnam War, as was fact when they attempted to capture Hamburger Hill. It also makes a statement against the flippant loss of lives in pursuit of such futile objectives. There is, however, a different way to look at it. There are many allusions to the home front in the war - allusions to college-level anti-war subversion, hostile hippies, and loss of credibility and pride by veterans. All these - although false, but part of 'Nam's historical memory - suggests an aversion to the anti-war movement. Thus, technically, while the film is anti-war, it is not motivated by popular anti-war sentiment of that time. It achieves its anti-war position by independent exploration, something that the FNGs (F***in' New Guys, the servicemen portrayed in the film) also go through together with the audience.
The Disney film- in cartoon form- premiered in l942. It was somewhat odd for an anti-violence film to be floated out in the maelstrom of World War II but it happened!
Yes. There's a film called Platoon, focusing on the Vietnam war, and it was written and directed by Oliver Stone.