Almost since the dawn of cinema, films exhibiting the war have become a genre in their own right. War is the most vicious invention of humankind. The aftermath of war is felt for generations, leaving indelible marks on history, culture, and the arts. Some say wars are for the gain but in reality, war is the face of losing, loss of life, loss of money, and loss of humanity. Some of the movie based on war glorify conflict and its leaders, creating a patriotic glow while other depicts the brutality and the horror of war that shatters the humankind. Here is a list of the top 10 movies that depict the horror of war.
1. The Pianist: Starring Adrien Brody in the lead, the adaptation of an autobiography by Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman, the film depicts the destruction of war when Jews in Warsaw were stopped from working or owning businesses, to the squalid conditions of the Warsaw ghetto, to the Treblinka extermination camp.
2. Hotel Rwanda: The Rwandan genocide was avoided by the world until the situation went too far and this movie leaves no stone unturned to portrayed the rawness and vividness of the crime committed during the situation.
3. Dunkirk: Christopher Nolan is a hell of an Acer and this movie is proof of that. The movie based in world war II focuses on the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of Allied troops from the French city of Dunkirk before Nazi forces took over the charge of the place.
4. Life is Beautiful: This cinematic masterpiece captures Legendary Italian comedic actor Roberto Benigni stepping in the shoes of a serious man who tries to shield his son from the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp by planning events that affected the large mass.
5. Apocalypse Now: Based on the novel Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness, this movie takes a ride to the jungle of Vietnam of War. The highlights that make this marvel is the raw dark jungle, war drama, and the bloodshed during the investigation of a crime.
6. Schindler’s list: Based on the novel Schindler's Ark by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally, this unforgettable film follows real-life German businessman and Nazi Party member Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), who was credited with narrowly saving the lives of more than 1,000 Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by hiring them in his factories.
7. All Quiet on the Western Front: It has been so long but still this is considered as the most realistic portrayal of World War I. You can copy the bombing, the chaos of the war but can’t truly depict the emotion of war but this movie managed to do that effortlessly.
8. The Thin Red Line: Two soldiers who have gone AWOL and are living idyllic lives on a Pacific island get captured and thrown back into a vicious and chaotic battle in The Thin Red Line — and it's that contrast, along with serious questions about the morality of war, that make the film especially brutal.
9. Mash: M*A*S*H* is best known as a hit TV series, but that long-running show began as a feature film. Like the TV show, it was set in a field hospital and combined the horrors of the Korean war with wry humor about everything from death to love to the mundanities of everyday life.
10. The Deer Hunter: The story of three buddies Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, and John Savage who takes their last trip hunting before they leave for the brutal war of Vietnam.
