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 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 not just to the soldiers, but to innocent civilians caught in the crossfire.
[edit] Selected films
Some films with anti-war themes include:
- 1969 (1988)
- Age of Innocence [1] (1977)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Arlington West: The Film (2005)
- Baghdad ER (2006)
- Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
- Barefoot Gen (1983)
- The Beast (1988)
- The Bedford Incident (1965)
- Birdy (1983)
- Black Hawk Down (2001)
- Blood Diamond (2006)
- Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
- Boy Soldiers [2] (1990)
- The Burmese Harp (1956)
- Casualties of War (1989)
- Catch 22 (1970)
- Coming Home (1978)
- Das Boot (1981)
- The Day After (1983)
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
- The Deer Hunter (1978)
- Die Brücke (1959)
- Dirty War (2004)
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
- Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
- Fail-Safe (1964)
- Fear and Desire (1953)
- Fires on the Plain (1959)
- F.T.A. (1972)
- Flags of our Fathers (2006)
- The Four Feathers (2002)
- Full Metal Jacket (1987)
- Fünf letzte Tage [3] (1982)
- Gallipoli (1981)
- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971)
- Gardens of Stone (1987)
- Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (2007)
- Grand Illusion (1937)
- Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
- Heaven & Earth (1993)
- High Treason (1928)
- Home of the Brave (2006)
- Hotel Rwanda (2004)
- How I Won the War (1967)
- In the Valley of Elah (2007)
- J'accuse! (1919) [4]
- J'accuse! (1938) [5] remake of the 1919 silent film
- Jarhead (2005)
- Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
- Joyeux Noël (2005)
- Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
- Ladybug Ladybug (1963)
- Les Carabiniers (1963)
- Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
- Lions for Lambs (2007)
- Lord of War (2005)
- Mash (1970)
- Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
- Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
- Neighbours (1952)
- No Man's Land (2001)
- Oh! What A Lovely War (1969)
- On the Beach (1957)
- Paths of Glory (1957)
- Platoon (1986)
- Princess Mononoke (1997)
- Redacted (2007)
- Rendition (2007)
- The Road to Guantanamo (2006)
- The Sand Pebbles (1966)
- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- Savior (1998)
- Shame (1968)
- Sir! No Sir! (2006)
- Stop Loss (2008)
- Submarine Attack (1954)
- The Thin Red Line (1998)
- Taegukgi (2004)
- Tango Charlie (2005)
- Three Kings (1999)
- Tears of the Sun (2003)
- Things to Come (1936)
- Tigerland (2000)
- The Wall (1982)
- War, Inc. (2008)
[edit] References
- ^ Age of Innocence (1977) - Plot summary
- ^ NFSA - Title Details
- ^ Fünf letzte Tage (1982)
- ^ J'accuse! (1919)
- ^ J'accuse! (1938)
- ^ Chaudhry, Lakshmi. "When Boys Will be Jarheads". AlterNet. November 18, 2005.
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