Genre
War Films
Combat on film, spanning recruitment-poster heroism and the far larger tradition arguing that the experience cannot be honestly filmed at all.
Four textbook cases
Not the best four — the four that define the shape. Start anywhere.
Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola · 1979
Come and See
Elem Klimov · 1985
Paths of Glory
Stanley Kubrick · 1957
The Thin Red Line
Terrence Malick · 1998
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