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In real life, war is not a situation that anyone enjoys, but as a source of human drama, it's an ideal place for films to look for subject matter. War movies range in tone from the relatively uncomplicated adrenaline rush of military action movies to the more cerebral ambitions of realistic war movies and those with an anti-war agenda.

In the first half of the 20th century, war movies were most likely to be pure adventure, in which the good guys were on a quest to stop the nefarious aims of the bad guys. World War II, with its clear-cut good-vs-evil plot line, was a popular war to portray, but historical wars such as the American Civil War and the military campaigns against Native Americans in the American West got plenty of attention, too. In the 1980s, movies like the Rambo franchise and "Top Gun" gave the adventure treatment to the Cold War.

The 80s also saw the rise of the grittily realistic war movie. Oliver Stone's "Platoon" presented the Vietnam conflict that in no way glorified war, and Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" continued the new tradition.

America's war in the Middle East and Afghanistan after the turn of the century gave rise to a new type of war movie, one that strives for realism and adventure at the same time and takes a neutral stance on the conflict. "The Hurt Locker," "Zero Dark Thirty" and "Lone Survivor" do little to whitewash the reality of war, but they also stop short of making an anti-war statement.

    Emancipation
    Greyhound
    Hacksaw Ridge
    Fury
    Sniper: The White Raven
    300
    The Final Countdown
    Gone with the Wind
    The Imitation Game
    Braveheart
    We Were Soldiers
    Platoon
    Patton
    The Greatest Beer Run Ever
    Troy
    Glory
    Enemy at the Gates
    The Last of the Mohicans
    13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
    The Cruel Sea
    Run Silent, Run Deep
    Zulu
    Inglourious Basterds
    The Last Samurai
    Tropic Thunder
    The Pianist
    Red Dawn
    Saving Private Ryan
    Cold Mountain
    Red Tails
    A Bridge Too Far
    The Hurt Locker
    Jarhead
    The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
    The Tuskegee Airmen
    The Devil's Brigade
    Eye in the Sky
    Rambo
    Air Force
    The Alamo
    Memphis Belle
    Megan Leavey
    Windtalkers
    12 Strong
    Valkyrie
    Horse Soldiers
    The Delta Force
    Stalingrad
    Battle of Britain
    Rambo: First Blood Part II
    The Great Escape
    Civil War
    The Tragedy of Macbeth
    Rob Roy
    Submarines
    Enamorada
    The Best Years of Our Lives
    Voces inocentes
    Downfall
    Rambo III
    Hotel Rwanda
    Without Remorse
    The Gallant Hours
    Sands of Iwo Jima
    Flags of Our Fathers
    The Wall
    The Great Dictator
    Britannic
    Full Metal Jacket
    Heroes
    Flight of the Intruder
    The Zone of Interest
    The Bridges at Toko-Ri
    Letters from Iwo Jima
    Red Cliff
    For Greater Glory
    The Alamo
    Lone Survivor
    Born on the Fourth of July
    The Exception
    They Died With Their Boots On
    Brothers
    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
    Sophie's Choice
    Uncommon Valor
    Au revoir, les enfants
    The Devil's Disciple
    The Train
    The Grey Zone
    Cross of Iron
    Escape from Germany
    American Sniper
    Six Minutes to Midnight
    The Great Raid
    The Search
    Sarah's Key
    The Bridge at Remagen
    The Four Feathers
    Richard III
    Pearl Harbor