| DAVID HART'S FAVOURITE WAR FILMS |
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Still from Gance's film "J'Accuse" (1838)
of the Soldier's Tomb as he rises from the dead to prevent the next war |
General Turgisdon in Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangleove"
(1964) showing how big the U.S. atomic weapons are. |
Introduction
The full list (84) of my Study Guies on War films can be found here. Here is a selection of my favourites (33).
Ancient Rome
- Anthony Mann & Stanley Kubrick, Spartacus (1960, restored version 1991) 3hrs 16 - Guide
Medieval Europe
- Kenneth Branagh, Henry V (1989) 2hrs 12 - Guide
16thC Japan
- Akira Kurosawa, The Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai) (1954) Part 1 1hr 46; Part 2 1hr 35 - Guide
18thC Europe and America
- Abel Gance, Napoléon (1927): Part 1 2hrs; Part 2 2hrs - older version of the Guide
- Sergei Bondarchuk, War and Peace (Voina i Mir) (1967): Part 1 2hrs 6; Part 2 1hr 56; Part 3 1hr 25 - Guide
- Peter Watkins, Culloden (1964) 1hr 12 - Guide
19thC North America
19thC Africa
- Bruce Beresford, Breaker Morant (1980) 1hr 47 - Guide
The First World War
- Lewis Milestone, All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) (Restored Version 1987) 2hrs 10 - Guide
- Jean Renoir, The Great Illusion (La Grande Illusion)(1937) 1hr 57 - older version of the Guide
- Stanley Kubrick, Paths of Glory (1957) 1hr 26 - Guide
- Joseph Losey, King & Country (1964) 1hr 30 - Guide
The Second World War - Europe
- Mike Nichols, Catch-22 (1970) 1hr 56 - Guide
- Sam Peckinpah, Cross of Iron (1977) 2hrs 7 - Guide
- Keith Gordon, A Midnight Clear (1992) 1hr 47 - Guide
The Second World War - Europe/The Holocaust
- Elem Klimov, Come and See (1985) 2hrs 20 - Guide
The Second World War - Asia/Pacific
- John Ford, They Were Expendable (1945) 2hrs 15 - Guide
- Kon Ichikawa, The Burmese Harp (Harp of Burma - Biruma No Tategoto) (1956) 1hr 56 - Guide
- Masaki Kobayashi, The Human Condition (Ningen no Joken) (1959-61) 9hrs 7 (WS) - Guide
The Korean War
- Sam Fuller, The Steel Helmet (1951) 1hr 26
- Robert Altman, M*A*S*H (1970) 1hr 56 - Guide
The Cold War
- Don Siegel, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1956) 1hr 20 - older version of the Guide
French Colonial Wars
- Pierre Schoendoerffer, The 317th Platoon (Le 317e Section) (1965) 1hr 24 - Guide
- Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algiers) (1967) 2hrs - Guide
The Vietnam War
- Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now (1979) 2hrs 35 - Guide
- Oliver Stone, Platoon (1986) 2hrs - Guide
- Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket (1987) 1hr 56 - Guide
- Oliver Stone, Born of the Fourth of July (1989) 2hrs 19 - Guide
Wars of the Future
- The Marx Brothers, Duck Soup (1933) 1hr 8 - Guide
- Abel Gance, J'Accuse (I Accuse) (1938) - illustrated essay
- Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove, or How I learned to stop worrying and love the Bomb (1964) 1hr 42 - Guide
- Peter Watkins, The War Game (1967) 47mins - Guide