Anti-war film

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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. This is due to the glorification of a form of masculinity that arises from exposure to war.^{[#endnote_chaudhry]}

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

• All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
• Apocalypse Now (1979)
• Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
• The Bedford Incident (1965)
• The Best Years of Our Lives
• Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
• 'Breaker' Morant (1979)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
• Catch 22
• Come and See
• Coming Home
• Cross of Iron
• Das Boot (1981)
• The Deer Hunter (1978)
• Dr. Strangelove
• Fahrenheit 9/11
• Full Metal Jacket
• Gallipoli
• Grand Illusion (1937)
• Grave of the Fireflies
• The Great Dictator
• How I Won the War
• Johnny Got His Gun
• ''King of Hearts
• ''Life Is Beautiful
• M*A*S*H
• Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
• Mrs. Miniver (1942)
• No Man's Land (2001)
• Paths of Glory
• Platoon
• Schindler's List
• Slaughterhouse-Five
• Stalingrad
• The Sorrow and the Pity
• The Sand Pebbles
• The Thin Red Line
• Two Women
• The World Says No to War

References

• ↑ Chaudhry, Lakshmi. "[When Boys Will be Jarheads]". AlterNet. November 18, 2005.

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