List of anti-war films

An anti-war film is a genre of war film that is opposed to warfare in its theming or messaging.

Anti-war films typically argue that war is futile, unjust, a loss for all involved, only serves to benefit few in society (usually an elite or ruling class, or the state), makes people do or support things they normally would not (such as homicide or discrimination), is extremely costly both in money and lives, or is otherwise undesirable for those fighting it, the target audience, or everyone in general. To illustrate their point, anti-war films often present the effects of war—such as destruction, suffering, war trauma, casualties, war crimes, war's impact on the environment or on children, or the excesses of war—in a negative manner. Though many anti-war films make this negative depiction explicit and clear for the audience to understand, some are more subtle in delivering their anti-war messaging (such as making the ostensibly good side as brutal as their enemies), or may use parody and black comedy to satirize wars and conflicts.

While most anti-war films use real historical or then-ongoing conflicts—commonly modern wars in recent memory that the intended audience is familiar with or understands, such as World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War, or the war on terror—as their settings to criticize those wars, their casus belli, or their effects, others use hypothetical conflicts (e.g. World War III), fictional wars involving fictional countries, or even a conflict in a fictional universe, an alternate history, or the far future. Some anti-war films may not depict front line or battlefield conflict at all, and instead present anti-war messaging through depictions of the rear, military hierarchy, military operations other than war, military misconduct or corruption, the military–industrial complex, refugees and survivors, or the aftermath of wars, ranging from the immediate post-war recovery to the post-apocalypse.

Anti-war films

The following is a list of anti-war films.

Film Year Ref(s)
1917 2019
All Quiet on the Western Front 1930, 1979, 2022
Amazing Grace and Chuck 1987
The Americanization of Emily 1964
American Sniper 2014
Apocalypse Now 1979
The Battle of Algiers 1966
Beyond Treason 2002
Breaker Morant 1980
Das Boot 1981
Born on the Fourth of July 1989
The Boy with Green Hair 1948
Breaking The Silence: Truth and Lies in The War On Terror 2003
The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957
A Bridge Too Far 1977
Die Brücke 1959
Les Carabiniers 1963
Casualties of War 1989
Catch-22 1970
Civilization 1916
Come and See 1985
Coming Home 1978
Les Croix de bois 1932
Cross of Iron 1977
The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951
The Deer Hunter 1978
Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder 1982
Dr. Strangelove 1964
Empire of the Sun 1987
The Enemy Below 1957
L'Ennemi Intime 2007
Escalation 1968
Fahrenheit 9/11 2004
Fail Safe 2000
Fail-Safe 1964
Fear and Desire 1953
Field of Honor 1986
Fires on the Plain 1959
First Blood 1982
Flags of Our Fathers 2006
The Forgotten Battle 2020
Forrest Gump 1994
Fort Apache 1948
Fort Graveyard 1965
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 1921
Free State of Jones 2016
F.T.A. 1972
Friend of the World 2020
Friendly Fire 1979
The Frozen War 1973
Full Metal Jacket 1987
Gallipoli 1981
Gardens of Stone 1987
Go Tell the Spartans 1977
Goodbye Billy 1971
Grace Is Gone 2007
La grande guerra 1959
La Grande Illusion 1937
Grave of the Fireflies 1988
The Great Dictator 1940
The Greatest Beer Run Ever 2022
Greenery Will Bloom Again 2014
Greetings 1968
The Ground Truth 2006
Hacksaw Ridge 2016
Hair 1979
Hamburger Hill 1987
Hearts and Minds 1974
Hedd Wyn 1992
Hell Is for Heroes 1962
Hell on Earth 1928
A Hidden Life 2019
Hiroshima mon amour 1959
Hijacking Catastrophe 2004
Hotel Rwanda 2004
How I Won the War 1967
Howl's Moving Castle 2004
The Human Bullet 1968
The Human Condition 1959-1961
Iluminados por el fuego 1989
In the Valley of Elah 2007
Innocent Voices 2004
J'accuse 1919
Jacob's Ladder 1990
Johnny Got His Gun 1971
Jojo Rabbit 2019
Journey's End 1930
Joyeux Noël 2005
Kameradschaft 1931
Kanal 1956
Kelly's Heroes 1970
King and Country 1964
King of Hearts 1966
Letters from Iwo Jima 2006
Lions for Lambs 2007
Little Big Man 1970
Lord of War 2005
Love and Honor 2013
Major Dundee 1965
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media 1992
Many Wars Ago 1970
M*A*S*H 1970
Maudite soit la guerre 1914
Memphis Belle 1990
The Memory of Justice 1978
Men in War 1957
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence 1983
Mickey Mouse in Vietnam 1969
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 1984
Neighbours 1952
No Man's Land 2001
Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority 2006
Off Limits 1988
Oh! What a Lovely War 1969
The Oil Factor 2004
O.k. 1970
On the Beach 1959
The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976
Palestine Is Still the Issue 2002
The Panama Deception 1992
Paths of Glory 1957
The Patrol 2014
Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq 2000
Peace on Earth 1939
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land 2004
Pink Floyd – The Wall 1982
Plan Colombia: Cashing-In On The Drug War Failure 2002
Platoon 1986
Pretty Village Pretty Flame 1996
Pride of the Marines 1945
Purple Sunset 2001
The Red Baron 2008
Redacted 2007
Rendition 2007
The Road Back 1937
The Road to Glory 1936
The Road to Guantanamo 2006
Romero 1989
Rosa Luxemburg 1986
Salvador 1986
The Sand Pebbles 1966
Savior 1998
The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis 1987
Shame 1968
Shenandoah 1965
Sir! No Sir! 2006
Slaughterhouse-Five 1972
Soldier Blue 1970
Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage 2005
The Sorrow and the Pity 1969
Stalingrad 1993
Stop-Loss 2008
Taegukgi 2004
Tango Charlie 2005
Taxi to the Dark Side 2007
Taxi for Tobruk 1960
Tell England 1931
Tell Me Lies 1968
Testament 1983
The Thin Red Line 1998
Things to Come 1936
Threads 1984
Three Comrades 1938
Three Kings 1999
Tigerland 2000
Too Late the Hero 1970
Toys 1992
Triage 2009
Triumph Over Violence 1968
Turtles Can Fly 2004
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun 1972
The Unknown Soldier 2017
Unmanned: America's Drone Wars 2013
Verdun, visions d'histoire 1929
Vice 2018
The Visitors 1972
Waltz with Bashir 2008
The War 1994
The War at Home 1996
War, Inc. 2008
The War on Democracy 2007
War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death 2007
The Water Diviner 2014
We Are Many 2014
Welcome to Dongmakgol 2005
Westfront 1918 1930
When the Wind Blows 1986
When Trumpets Fade 1998
Why We Fight 2005
Winter Soldier 1972

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