War & Military

There is a school of thought that war films make the case for peace. The better we understand the past, the more prepared we are to make better choices in the future.

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Title

Year

Cast/Comments
Alamo 2004 Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton
Alexander 2004 Colin Farrell
Bitter Victory 1957 Nicholas Ray; Richard Burton
Black Book 2007 Struggle to survive in WWII
Cold Mountain 2003 Nicole Kidman, Jude Law
Control Room 2004 Balanced view on Iraq reporting
Dark Blue World 2003 WWII Eastern Europe
Downfall Last days of Hitler
Fahrenheit 9/11 2004 Michael Moore on Bush and the war in Iraq
The Fog of War 2003 Robert S. McNamara
Grabavica: The Land of My Dreams 2007 Affects of war on women in Bosnia
Gunner Palace 2005 Clear voice to the American men and women fighting the current war in Iraq
House in the Woods
The Jacket 2005 Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley
The Last Samurai 2003 Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe
LOTR: Return of the King 2003 Final film in the trilogy
The Manchurian Candidate 2004 Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep
Osama 2003 Female Oppression in Afghanistan
Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick War Classic
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman 2007 Timothy Spall (Secrets & Lies)
Red Badge of Courage 1951 Audie Murphy, Bill Mauldin
Shake Hands With the Devil 2005 Thoughts on holocaust in Rwanda
The Shooter 2007 Mark Wahlberg, Danny Glover
Stateside 2004 Rachael Leigh Cook, Jonathan Tucker
Strayed 2004 Emmanuelle Beart
Timeline 2003 Paul Walker
Troy 2004 Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom, Eric Bana
Turtles Can Fly 2005 Affect of war on children
War & Peace at the movies in 2006 A variety of movies
War of the Worlds 2005 Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins, Dakota Fanning, Morgan Freeman
The Wind That Shakes The Barley 2007 Ken Loach, Cillian Murphy