Anti-war film

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 genocidal 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 to the soldiers and to innocent civilians.

Anti-war films

See also: List of films about nuclear issues

Some films with anti-war themes include, but not limited to:

Film	Year
1969	1988
1971	2007
A Generation	1955
A Midnight Clear	1992
All Quiet on the Western Front	1930
All Quiet on the Western Front	1979
Amazing Grace and Chuck	1987
The Americanization of Emily	1964
Apocalypse Now	1979
Ashes and Diamonds	1958
Avatar	2009
A Very Long Engagement	2004
Ballad of a Soldier	1959
Baghdad ER	2006
Barefoot Gen	1983
The Battle of Algiers	1967
Battle Circus	1953
The Beast	1988
The Bedford Incident	1965
Beach Red	1967
The Big Red One	1980
Big Wednesday	1978
Birdy	1983
Black Hawk Down	2001
Blood Diamond	2006
Body of War	1987
Border	1997
Born on the Fourth of July	1989
The Boys in Company C	1978
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas	2008
The Boy With Green Hair	1948
Brothers	2009
The Bubble	2006
Bullet in the Head	1990
By Dawn's Early Light	1990
The Burmese Harp	1956
Canadian Bacon	1995
Casualties of War	1989
Catch 22	1970
Cavalcade	1933
Charge of the Light Brigade	1968
Chattahoochee	1989
Cheyenne Autumn	1964
Cold Mountain	2003
Combat Shock	1986
Coming Home	1978
Come and See	1985
Copperhead	2013
Cross of Iron	1977
Das Boot	1981
The Day After	1983
The Dawn Patrol	1938
The Deer Hunter	1978
Die Brücke	1959
Downfall	2004
Dirty War	2004
Distant Thunder	1988
Don't Cry it's Only Thunder	1982
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	1964
Enemies of the People	2009
The Enemy Below	1957
Fail Safe	2000
Fail-Safe	1964
Fear and Desire	1953
Field of Honor	1986
Fires on the Plain	1959
Flags of Our Fathers	2006
For the Boys	1991
Fort Apache	1948
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse	1921
F.T.A.	1972
Friendly Fire	1979
Full Metal Jacket	1987
Gallipoli	1981
Gardens of Stone	1987
Go Tell the Spartans	1978
Gone with the Wind	1939
Good Guys Wear Black	1977
Grace Is Gone	2007
Grand Illusion	1937
Grave of the Fireflies	1988
The Great Dictator	1940
Greetings	1968
Hair	1979
Hamburger Hill	1987
The Hasty Heart	1949
Hearts and Minds	1974
Heaven & Earth	1993
Hedd Wyn	1992
Hell Is for Heroes	1962
A Hill in Korea	1956
High Treason	1928
Hiroshima mon amour	1959
Home of the Brave	2006
Hotel Rwanda	2004
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie	1988
How I Won the War	1967
I'll Remember April	1999
Iluminados por el fuego	2005
In Country	1989
In the Valley of Elah	2007
In the Year of the Pig	1968
Jacknife	1989
J'accuse	1919
Jacob's Ladder	1990
Johnny Got His Gun	1971
Journey from the Fall	2007
Joyeux Noël	2005
Kanal	1956
Kelly's Heroes	1970
King of Hearts	1966
King Rat	1965
Ladybug Ladybug	1963
Last Ounce of Courage	2012
L'Ennemi Intime	2007
Les Carabiniers	1963
Letters from Iwo Jima	2006
Lions for Lambs	2007
Little Big Man	1970
Lord of War	2005
Love and Honor	2013
Main Hoon Na	2004
MASH	1970
The Memory of Justice	1978
The Men	1950
Men in War	1957
The Mortal Storm	1940
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind	1984
Neighbours	1952
No Man's Land	2001
Off Limits	1988
Oh! What a Lovely War	1969
O.k.	1970
On the Beach	1957
The Outsider	1961
The Outlaw Josey Wales	1976
The Panama Deception	1992
The Peacemaker	1997
Paths of Glory	1957
Platoon	1986
Platoon Leader	1988
Pretty Village Pretty Flame	1996
The Promise of Love	1980
Purple Hearts	1984
Purple Sunset	2001
The Rack	1956
The Red Baron	2008
Redacted	2007
Rendition	2007
The Road to Guantanamo	2006
Salvador	1986
The Sand Pebbles	1966
Saving Private Ryan	1998
Savior	1998
Schindler's List	1993
Shame	1968
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon	1949
Shenandoah	1965
The Siege of Firebase Gloria	1989
Sir! No Sir!	2006
Slaughterhouse-Five	1972
So Proudly We Hail!	1943
Soldier Blue	1970
Some Kind of Hero	1982
Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage	2005
The Sorrow and the Pity	1969
Stalingrad	1993
Stop-Loss	2008
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut	1999
Taking Chance	2009
Taegukgi	2004
Tango Charlie	2005
Testament	1983
The Thin Red Line	1998
Things to Come	1936
Threads	1984
Tigerland	2000
Triage	2009
Turtles Can Fly	2004
Waltz with Bashir	2008
The War	1994
The War at Home	1996
Two Women	1960
Un taxi pour Tobrouk	1960
The Visitors	1972
War Horse	2011
War, Inc.	2008
Welcome to Dongmakgol	2005
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol	1972
When Hell was in Session	1979
When Trumpets Fade	1998
Why We Fight	2005
Winter Soldier	1972
Zulu	1964

References

• ^ Chaudhry, Lakshmi. "When Boys Will be Jarheads". AlterNet. November 18, 2005.
• ^ "Record Crop of Anti-War Films to Hit Cinemas.

External links

• Anti-war films at the Iraq Media Action Project
• Anti-war films at Allmovie
• Antiwar Films Continue to Fizzle At The Box Office