They say all is fair in love and war, and cinema has taken great liberties with the latter. However, it’s also been impressively creative.
The closest that the average moviegoer can get to understanding the true nature of war is through the immersion of cinema, which is why war films are so popular, and why there have been so many remarkable additions to the genre through the decades. Only in front of the big screen can an audience experience the horrors and traumas of it, yet it remains adrenalizing and almost insatiable.
18 Saving Private Ryan Though Michael Bay was initially attached to helm Saving Private Ryan , he left due to fears he was incapable of adapting the script, and soon enough Spielberg was brought in to direct his second World War Two film in five years. Beginning with the unforgettable sequence set during the Allied attack on Normandy in 1944, Saving Private Ryan goes on to detail the search for James Ryan, a soldier whose three brothers have already been killed.
15 Inglorious Basterds The first of Tarantino’s revisionist period dramas was the World War Two action film Inglorious Basterds , set in Nazi-occupied France and following the coinciding stories of two factions vying to assassinate Hitler and his inner circle. Though numerous historical liberties are taken throughout the picture, Tarantino is by no means pretending to be a historian.
11 1917 The reimagined stories that Sam Mendes heard at his grandfather’s knee are what make up the crux of 1917 , a two-shot World War One thriller beautifully shot by Roger Deakins. The plot is simple: two young British privates are tasked with delivering a message across no man’s land that will prevent an isolated regiment from walking into a trap wherein they will be inevitably slaughtered.
8 Rome, Open City The overwhelming fear that the Nazis inspired is in part what makes the retreat from them such a compelling plot point in various Second World War films. Rome, Open City is the story of resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi as he attempts to escape Nazi-occupied Rome in 1944, while the SS troops attempt to track him down. It’s considered one of the most influential contributions to the Italian neorealism subgenre, and won the Palme d’Or at Cannes.
5 The Bridge On The River Kwai Based on Pierre Boulle’s novel of the same name, The Bridge on the River Kwai is an almost entirely fictional, seven-time-Oscar-winning depiction of British prisoners of war in a Japanese prison camp in Thailand. Like many great war movies, its thematic scope is not restricted to only the horrors of conflict but encompasses the inner suffering of man during times of trauma.
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