Top 5 Anti War Movies !

I think you don`t understand the situation ?? i have absolutely nothing against the army (even not against your american Army).

But My question is to make a list of anti war movies and come on Do you think Full metal jacket is not against the army ??? well wy didn`t Kubrick got support from the american army with the use of their vehicles and stuff, like in other war movies. EXAMPLE: Black hawk down and many more !!!

Good Lord. Why don't you go flag-wave on the street and get off IMDB...

Saving Private Ryan an anti-war movie? Right, with the American flag waving in the beginning and at the end of the film... No, then you better put your nose to Catch-22 or The dirty dozen, movies that are not so 'patriotic minded'.

And if you really want to see a film which shows how ugly WWII was, you don't want to see a film about the Western, but about the Eastern front offcourse: 'Come and see',from Klimov. Resembles Cross of Iron a bit, but contains much more horror (in a psychological point of view).

This offcourse, besides movies about Vietnam or the Middle East, but for some reason, I don't even want to start talking about that.

Saving Private Ryan graphically depicts war only in the starting scene of the landing. The rest is Hollywood crap, as every military historian might tell you. The final battle between the besieged infantryman and the Germans with the Tiger tanks is as realistic as a Spiderman movie. When it comes to W.W.II, the only realistic movies are Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, but one has to see them both, possibly on the same day.

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Black Hawk Down and Tears of the Sun are not ANTI-WAR movies, they are just WAR Movies.

How the hell is BHD an Anti War movie?

i would have to go with the 1st list, but i never saw the last one, instead i would put 'Apocalypse Now'.

Black hawk down was definately not anti war because it really shows the soldiers as helping each other like brothers.

Saving prv ryan wouldnt really count either, brilliant film but it was more just a war film, true it shows gruesome reality of war etc but its more about action i think and helping each other.

My list would really boil down to:

Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
Platoon
Thin Red Line

I would say, of those ive seen Full Metal Jacket, Platoon and Three Kings are the most anti war movies ever done. Black Hawk Down ISNT a anti war movie... this movie just shows american was heroes and so good, and so on...

I have a thought that First Blood is a anti vietnam movie, someone agrees? It shows that the soldiers from Nam was treated like trash when they got home, and in First Blood 2 its a bit anti Nam too... that the americans only sent away Rambo couse for showing off... not for saving the priosoners.

Keep up the good work

First Blood is definetly anti-war.

Got to say though, nobody does anti-war like Kubrick: FMJ, Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove and even parts of Barry Lyndon if I remember correctly.

Oliver Stone has made some great anti-war films as well.

Apocolyspe Now is one of the best anti-war films even if it is a bit ridiculous and theatrical at times.

Three Kings and Tigerland are two extremely unrated anti-war films.

Black Hawk Down the movie was not critical of America's mistakes. Like was mentioned before it was a display of brotherly unity in Soldiers. It showed the last time an American has won a Medal of Honor (until the Iraq War, and SFC Smith).

The book, however, was very critical of the US, not the Army, but the Clinton Administration. Not for how the conflict was handled, but how the resolution was handled. Black Hawk Down was Clinton's first major "spit in the face" at the military. After they lost 18(?) men that day, he pulled them out of the conflict. To the military, they felt like those 18 men died for nothing, because they didn't even get to finish their job. Clinton's Secretary of Defense resigned over the issue in Somalia.

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