War

For the film with Jet Li and Jason Statham, go to War (film). War film is a film genre concerned with war, usually about naval, air or land battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other related subjects. Sometimes they focus on daily military or civilian life in wartime without depicting battles. Their stories may be fiction, based on history, docudrama or occasionally biographical. Most war films often include a romance somewhere in the plot. The term anti-war film is sometimes used to describe films which bring to the viewer the pain and horror of war, often from a political or ideological perspective. Films made in the years following World War I tended to emphasise the horror or futility of warfare, most notably The Big Parade (1925) and What Price Glory? (1926). With the sound era, films like All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Howard Hawks' Road to Glory (1936) and Grand Illusion (1937), focused on the futility of... full article at wikipedia