Movies

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.^[1]

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

All Quiet on the Western Front
Apocalypse Now
Ballad of a Soldier
The Bedford Incident
Born on the Fourth of July
'Breaker' Morant
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Catch 22
Come and See
Coming Home
Cross of Iron
The Deer Hunter
Dr. Strangelove
Fahrenheit 9/11
Full Metal Jacket
Gallipoli
Grand Illusion
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
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 (2003 documentary)

References

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