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Genre "Anti-War Film" Movies
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| 1. All Quiet on the Western Front (year: 1979) |
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Years after directing the classic Marty (1955), Delbert Mann became a creator of prestige TV movie projects, none more daunting than his adaptation of ...
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| 2. Apocalypse Now (year: 1979) |
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One of a cluster of late-1970s films about the Vietnam War, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now adapts the Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness t ...
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| 3. Cold Mountain (year: 2003) |
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Based on the novel by Charles Frazier, Anthony Minghella's star-studded Cold Mountain is a sweeping tale set in the final days of the American Civil W ...
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| 4. Full Metal Jacket (year: 1987) |
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Stanley Kubrick's return to filmmaking after a seven-year hiatus, this film crystallizes the experience of the Vietnam War by concentrating on a group ...
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| 5. Grace Is Gone (year: 2007) |
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The contemplative, understated tearjerker Grace is Gone dramatizes the quiet crisis that befalls Stanley (John Cusack), a young Midwestern husband of ...
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| 6. Hair (year: 1979) |
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Milos Forman's adaptation of the tribal rock musical Hair stars John Savage as Claude, a quiet young man from the Midwest who becomes friendly with a ...
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| 7. Hamburger Hill (year: 1987) |
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Though the anti-war sentiments of Hamburger Hill come through loud and clear, the film is squarely on the side of those courageous, much-maligned Amer ...
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| 8. Hell Is for Heroes (year: 1962) |
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Don Siegel's only war film and unfortunately his only teaming with Steve McQueen, an actor whose rebellious persona jibed well with the director's vis ...
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| 9. Intimate Enemies (year: 2007) |
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The brutal legacy of the Algerian war forms the heart of filmmaker Florent Emilio Siri's stark period drama concerning a young French soldier confront ...
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| 10. Kelly's Heroes (year: 1970) |
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Like M*A*S*H and Catch-22, both released the same year, this military comedy takes place in an earlier war but is really a thinly disguised treatise o ...
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| 11. Letter to Jane (year: 1972) |
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Letter to Jane consists of a series of still photographs in which filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin read aloud a letter to actress Jane ...
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| 12. Letters from Iwo Jima (year: 2006) |
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After bringing the story of the American soldiers who fought in the battle of Iwo Jima to the screen in his film Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood ...
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| 13. Platoon (year: 1986) |
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Oliver Stone's breakthrough as a director, Platoon is a brutally realistic look at a young soldier's tour of duty in Vietnam. Chris Taylor (Charlie Sh ...
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| 14. Prisoner of the Mountains (year: 1996) |
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Political rivals, divided by a bloody war, are forced to come to terms with one another in this drama, which was adapted from Leo Tolstoy's short stor ...
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| 15. The Deer Hunter (year: 1978) |
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One of several 1978 films dealing with the Vietnam War (including Hal Ashby's Oscar-winning Coming Home), Michael Cimino's epic second feature The Dee ...
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| 16. The Thin Red Line (year: 1998) |
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The return of director Terrence Malick to feature filmmaking after a twenty year sabbatical, this World War II drama is an elegiac rumination on man's ...
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| 17. Three Kings (year: 1999) |
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Three stars team up for this unusual look at America's role in the war against Iraq. In 1991, as the Gulf War winds to a close, three American service ...
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