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- A strong anti-war film can make us pause and reflect more deeply on war’s horrific nature, the young men and women who fight in our name, and how they may suffer amid the senselessness of it all.
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Jul 10, 2014 · A strong anti-war film can make us pause and reflect more deeply on war’s horrific nature, the young men and women who fight in our name, and how they may suffer amid the senselessness of it all.
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- 13 'All Quiet on The Western Front'
- 12 'The Deer Hunter'
- 11 'Threads'
- 10 'Quo Vadis, Aida?'
- 9 'Paths of Glory'
- 8 'Waltz with Bashir'
- 7 'Apocalypse Now'
- 6 'Gallipoli'
- 5 'For Sama'
- 4 'The Human Condition I-III'
The biggest winner of the 2023 Oscars behind Everything Everywhere All At Once, All Quiet on the Western Front scored four Academy Awards, including Best International Feature and Best Cinematography. It updates the acclaimed novel of the same name, and additionally serves as a more brutal and visceral version of the WW1-set storythan what was seen...
One of the first mainstream films to tackle the controversial Vietnam War, The Deer Hunteronly feels like a traditional war film for one-third of its three-hour runtime, as it depicts a group of American men's lives before they go to Vietnam while they're fighting in Vietnam, and then after they return (or fail to return) to America. It's a decisio...
Threads is one of the most disturbing films of all time, without a doubt. The war it depicts is a nuclear one, so it's the rare war film that doesn't focus on a conflict that has happened. Instead, it looks at one that could happen, especially how the world would fall apart after a global nuclear conflict. Being released during the Cold War, there ...
Like many films that condemn war, Quo Vadis, Aida? is one that would be very difficult to watch twice. One of the best anti-war movies ever, rather than deal with combat specifically, it instead follows a United Nations translator who observes a humanitarian crisis that tragically ends with a horrific war crime, the depiction of which pulls no punc...
Despite never directing a movie that won Best Picture, Stanley Kubrick is widely regarded as one of the greatest directors of all time, and was behind some of the best films of all time. One of his numerous classics (and one of the best anti-war films) would have to be Paths of Glory, a World War One film about three soldiers being put on trial for...
Waltz With Bashir is an autobiographical animated war documentary where the film's director, Ari Folman, reflects on his involvement in the 1982 Lebanon War. Suffering from PTSD, he can hardly remember what happened, so he interviews those there with him to better understand. The recollections from all the interviewees are themselves animated in su...
Released just one year after the similarly impactful The Deer Hunter, Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War movie Apocalypse Now might be the most famous of them all. Adapting the novella Heart of Darkness and setting it in Vietnam, it's a confronting and often nightmarish story about madness, murder, and losing one's humanity, among other difficult t...
Through shedding light on World War I, Gallipolidepicts one insidious side of war that's less common nowadays, given there's more awareness about how awful war is. One of the best WWI movies, the story focuses on two young men from Australia who are convinced signing up to fight in an exotic locale will be an adventure but find the experience of fi...
For Sama is one of the best documentaries of the 2010s and packs an impact as a depiction of war because all its footage is real. Waad al-Kateabfilms the struggles of living life in a Syrian warzone, authentically capturing the dangers around her and her family in vivid, often shockingly close detail. It is an essential document of a recent conflic...
The Human Condition is one of the greatest war films made in Japan and one of the most important and best World War II films ever made. Spanning over nine hours and split into three parts, it follows the experience of a conscientious objector who finds himself inside a prison camp and then, eventually, on the frontline. Throughout the trilogy, he t...
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- Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983) by Nagisa Oshima. The novel on which this movie was based was titled ‘The Seed and the Sower’ by Laurens van der Post.
- The White Rose (1982) by Michael Verhoeven. A film based on the true story of a group of German students at the University of Munich, and one of their professors, who felt compelled to oppose Nazism through pacifistic means – primarily the dissemination of knowledge as to what the Nazi government was truly doing during the war.
- Twenty-Four Eyes (1954) by Keisuke Kenoshita. A film that spans the years 1928 to 1946 (the beginning of the Shōwa era in Japan) as a young, modern, female Japanese teacher watches her beloved students grow during the period of rising militarism in Japan.
- Hair (1979) by Miloš Forman. Very moving scene toward the end as you see lines of US soldiers marching into the cavernous bellies of transport planes to Vietnam.
- The Thin Red Line (7.6) Terrence Malick is one of the film world's most enigmatic figures. After directing two films in the 1970s, Malick disappeared from filmmaking for twenty years.
- Waltz With Bashir (8.0) Waltz with Bashir is not only a brilliant one-of-a-kind film based on the graphic novel of the same name. The story both tell utilizes testimony from actual participants in the central conflict to reconstruct the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
- The Deer Hunter (8.1) One of the best films of the '70s was also one of the most scathing condemnations of the Vietnam War. Michael Cimino's directorial career tanked after he made this 3-hour long epic examination of the ways in which the war destroys nearly every single facet of the lives of three soldiers upon their return to a small steel factory town.
- Come And See (8.3) Come and See is indisputably one of the darkest films ever made. The Russian film takes place in the war-torn lands of Belarus as parties of Nazis make their way across the country, destroying anything and everyone in their wake.
Jun 24, 2022 · Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket was released 35 years ago. Gregory Wakeman explores how the film – and others by the director – revealed "the mindlessness and cruelty of conflict".
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Feb 21, 2023 · 30 great anti-war movies. War is an unfortunate subject that continues to be relevant throughout history. When the dust settles and the bloody aftermath is tallied, and sometimes even before then, creatives give their views on the situation through outlets like music, literature, and film. Because, like war, human connection is also a practice ...
Sep 15, 2024 · Like the best World War II movies ever made, the anti-war films on this list are generally considered to be classics. They all depict historical conflicts with a degree of accuracy, rather than fictional wars or highly fictionalized real events.
