From Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence to Flags of Our Fathers, these war movies were told from a different perspective.
Most war movies are understandably based on real-life conflicts from humanity's turbulent past. And given the majority of movies - war or otherwise - tend to be around two hours long , the focus can sometimes only be on one side of any conflict or dispute. This can generally result in movies that are about good versus evil, or protagonist versus antagonist, and war movies perhaps more often than not adhere to this form of storytelling.
9 'Waterloo' Of the many movies that feature Napoleon Bonaparte as a character, Waterloo is up there as one of the very best. It centers around the divisive titular battle later immortalized in an ABBA song, with screen time split between the two main sides: the French forces led by Napoleon himself , and the British allied forces overseen by the Duke of Wellington .
On top of different characters from both the French and German sides, American Allied forces also play a role within the film, leading to the casting of some well-known stars like Anthony Perkins and Kirk Douglas. There are similar big-name actors for the French and German characters, too, including the likes of Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, and Leslie Caron.
It's instantly tense, because both end up stranded on the same small island, and find themselves at odds and unable to communicate. Hell in the Pacific eventually becomes about them needing to work together if either is to have any chance of surviving into the future. Not only is it as simple and small as war can get, but it's also perhaps as even-handed and balanced between two sides as a war movie could ever be.
4 'Pan's Labyrinth' While Pan's Labyrinth is primarily a fantasy movie , it's also a war movie. Despite it taking place in 1944, the war focused on isn't World War II, with it instead following a story that plays out several years after the Spanish Civil War, with forces of the Francoist dictatorship clashing with various rebels.
2 'War for the Planet of the Apes' Not all war movies are necessarily about real-life conflicts, as the futuristic War for the Planet of the Apes demonstrates. As the third movie in the 2010s Planet of the Apes trilogy, it takes things to another level when it comes to scale and ambition, ultimately depicting the final conflict that saw apes definitively take over the Earth, paving the way for the stories depicted in the original Planet of the Apes series.
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