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	Anti-war film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Many complex films may be seen as anti-war by some people, and pro-war by others.
		An anti-war film is a movie that is perceived as having an anti-war theme.
		Some are war movies that show the negative aspects of war, while others satirize war in other ways.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anti-war_film (128 words)

	War and Anti-War Films
		Possibly the greatest anti-war film ever made, it was based upon the novel by Erich Maria Remarque that viewed the Great War from the German point of view.
		The anti-war film that made Rudolf Valentino a star was Rex Ingram's very successful The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) - it used WWI as a backdrop for its story of illicit love.
		War films have often been used as 'flag-waving' propaganda to inspire national pride and morale, and to display the nobility of one's own forces while harshly displaying and criticizing the villainy of the enemy, especially during war or in post-war periods.
	www.filmsite.org /warfilms.html (2153 words)

	Eric the Unread: Jarhead - another pro-war film?
		There is talk that many Vietnam films are antiwar, that the message is war is inhumane and look what happens when you train young American men to fight and kill, they turn their fighting and killing everywhere, they ignore their targets and desecrate the entire country, shooting fully automatic, forgetting they were trained to aim.
		In fact, Russian war films in general tend to be noticeably less gung-ho than their Hollywood equivalents - almost certainly because they were made for people with far more direct experience of the sharp end of mechanised warfare, and who were therefore not especially disposed to treat the subject lightly.
		Eric the Unread: Jarhead - another pro-war film?
	erictheunred.blogspot.com /2005/09/jarhead-another-pro-war-film.html (827 words)

	An Anti-War Film That Refuses to Be Banned
		Its distributors say that the war in Iraq has made the Vietnam-era film as powerful as when it was new, and its filmmakers are calling it eerily prescient of national embarrassments like the torture at Abu Ghraib.
		When the film was finished a year later, it was shown at the Cannes and Berlin film festivals, at theaters in France and England, and on German television.
		This was being filmed, it should be emphasized, before the advent of rap groups and the confessional culture, before people routinely unburdened themselves on television or an Oprah granted absolution every afternoon.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2005/printer_081005N.shtml (1159 words)

	The Great Anti-War Films
		While most may glorify war and the soldiers who wage it, some films dare to expose the carnage, the staggering death and destruction, and the futility of war.
		The epic film, shown from the perspective of German soldiers fighting trench warfare against the French during World War I, cost $1.25 million, a sum unheard of in the early days of the talking picture.
		War films have been popular since the dawn of cinema.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig/gee5.html (2729 words)

	WAR FILM
		Heller's 1961 novel as translated into this 1970 film while clearly influenced by the height of the anti-Vietnam War Movement still stands as a great American self-satire of war,bureaucracy,madness and sanity.
		Transcript of a broadcast of February 27,1994 of an official U.S.Government produced film on America and war movies.
		Ironically made at the near height of the Cold War and threatening nuclear armaggeddon by focussing on the few characters it beautifully captures the alienation of soldiers in armed conflicts during the 20th.century.
	www.angelfire.com /ca/hmhsllandoverycastle/warfilm1.html (812 words)

	War and Anti-War Films
		Most of the other war films at this time were all-star World War II buddy films, typically with large groups of stars bonded together in exciting, old-fashioned wartime situations.
		The confusion and fear of the wartime experience for a young, recruited Civil War Union soldier was presented in John Huston's The Red Badge of Courage (1951), an adaptation of Stephen Crane's 1894 novel, with real-life war hero Audie Murphy in the anti-heroic lead role.
		Most war films in the 1950s ignored the Korean conflict, however, and instead looked back at both earlier world wars with films mixing entertainment, history, and drama.
	www.filmsite.org /warfilms3.html (1635 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal The Altered State of War
		However, the anti-war film subverts the nature of heaven, represents hell from a radically different perspective, and presents the viewer with an altered state of war that is infinitely more horrifying and insuperable than the one we are typically shown in the (pro) war film.
		This is an example of what is a fundamental and desperate insight of the anti-war film — the solder’s ability to survive the loss of heaven and adapt to hell.
		The film’s primary antagonism, beyond the pro-forma German-Russian combat, is that between Steiner and Stransky, and it is that conflict, not the war’s, that leads to the film’s climax.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /45/war.htm (6746 words)

	CNN.com - India war film raises censors' ire - August 19, 2002
		Patwardhan said the film's message is that nuclear weapons are not a deterrent to war, as promoted by the nuclear nations.
		"The sanity of his film, it just undermines the war hysteria that they've whipped up."
		Veteran documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardhan (who did not want to be easily indentifiable in the photo) poses for a potrait during a private screening of his movie War and Peace
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/08/19/india.film (847 words)

	10/03/1999: Better anti-war films...
		While it is a movie that drives clear anti-Gulf War messages, it is not the greatest anti-war film nor anything like that...
		-"Paths of Glory": Another good anti-war film by master Kubrick.
		Overrated yet still a good film, which despite being a black comedy shows the pointlessness and insanity of "death for honor", and portrays the arrogant rule of the French generals as sadistic and idiotic.
	www.mrcranky.com /movies/threekings/33.html (600 words)

	Anti-war film series at U. of Akron : Cleveland IMC
		Including decades worth of historical footage and McNamara himself telling his own tales, this film asks how brilliant minds like McNamara can get trapped in the logic and fog of war.
		Filmed in the streets of South Korea, Argentina, Mexico, South Africa, and Palestine, this documentary is a story of impassioned resistance by everyday people to the looming threats posed by neo-liberal economics, dictatorships, and military interventions.
		An activist film that contextualizes and explains the statements and actions of demonstrators in the streets.
	cleveland.indymedia.org /print.php?id=14967 (377 words)

	PlanetPapers - All Quiet on the Western Front: An Anti-War Film
		The film shows how bad war is before the boys are even fighting.
		Paul’s statistics about the war also show the movie is anti-war.
		All Quiet on the Western Front is a film about a group of friends who enlist in the army.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/5920.php (438 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - Sundance honours new anti-war film
		The anti-war documentary 'Why We Fight' was among the winners at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah on Sunday night.
		RTE.ie Entertainment - Sundance honours new anti-war film
		Accepting the award at the festival, Jarecki said: "It was a humbling experience to see the films I saw here and the extraordinary voices communicating a vision of this country as it leads the world...
	www.rte.ie /arts/2005/0131/sundance.html (152 words)

	J'accuse / I Accuse / 1919 / film review / Abel Gance
		The film is all the more impressive for Gance’s uses of location filming on the World War I battlefields of France, during the latter stages of the war.
		Gance remade his film in 1938 as a protest when he saw the world slipping yet again into war.
		The film’s final scene where dead soldiers rise from their graves and see the better world they have created is sublimely moving.
	frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_J_Accuse_1919_rev.html (210 words)

	Imaginarium Online, Movie Reviews
		As part of the tragic irony of war we see one young soldier remove his helmet to stare dumbly at the groove of a passing bullet only to have the next bullet demolish his head.
		World War II was not "our" war, and most of us have never been to the countries where it was fought.
		As I watched them trek through the countryside arguing out the merits of their mission, I was reminded that the war was not a narrative story full of exciting events and philosophical closure to those who fought in it.
	www.cornerstonemag.com /imaginarium/movies/ryan.htm (1901 words)

	Carabiners (1994) - RUTHLESS REVIEWS: Movies
		What the film lacks is the kind of pleasure you get from going down a water slide or watching scenes from Apocolypse Now, Three Kings or most other war films and anti-war films.
		The reason for withholding this pleasure is pretty obvious: war isn't a waterslide and Godard doesn't think it should be represented as such.
		No war heroes, movie stars, action thrills and chills, or spectacular battle scenes, although there is some very funny satire.
	ruthlessreviews.com /movies/c/carabiners.html (428 words)

	Sri Lankan government bans anti-war film
		Despite ongoing attempts by the government and extreme rightwing elements to arouse anti-Tamil racism, opposition to the war among the Sinhala masses in the South is growing.
		An earlier attempt to stop screenings of the film became invalid when the Supreme Court ruled that the media censorship laws proclaimed by the government on May 3 were unlawful.
		The film was due to be screened on July 28 but under a directive from the Special Assignments Minister it has been indefinitely deferred.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/aug2000/film-a07.shtml (1086 words)

	One-minute anti-war film
		When I heard the concept I felt this was a film that needed to be made.” Rhea Pillai added that she was deeply disturbed by the violence in the world and was proud to have made her debut with a film that spoke against war.
		The film shows a pregnant woman (Rhea Pillai) in the throes of labour pains being rushed to the hospital by her husband.
		The film, released by Columbia Tri-Star is shown in theatres just before a full-length film’s screening and by VIP films in their chain of theatres in Mumbai.
	www.screenindia.com /fullstory.php?content_id=3400 (508 words)

	Film Anti-war Sarandon to be honoured
		Actor Susan Sarandon is to be honoured at New York's Film Society of Lincoln Centre's annual gala tribute, a move which bucks the recent trend of organisations cancelling her appearances because of her anti-war stance.
		Elsewhere, however, Sarandon remains an object of loathing for pro-war Americans incensed by her outspoken views on the war in Iraq.
		Among the guests expected to attend the ceremony on May 3 are the actor's former co-stars Goldie Hawn and Geena Davis, singer David Bowie, directors Paul Schrader and Jonathan Demme and her longtime partner Tim Robbins.
	film.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4649434-3156,00.html (240 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes Forums - Best anti-war film
		i have 2 anti-war films in my top 5.
		I think the best war films are the ones that show us the characters, and how they have changed, instead of telling us.
		From an antiwar pov, war is always bad and there is no clear cut difference between a "valid" war and an "invalid" one.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=168323 (2226 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film News The Bushes and the Bin Ladens: passionate anti-war film is a tale of two families
		A documentary is highly unlikely to win the Golden Palm, but this was an exhilarating and even refreshing film, especially coming at a time when political commentators on either side of the Atlantic - progressives and ex-progressives alike - are apparently too worldly and sophisticated to be angry about the war.
		The Bushes and the Bin Ladens: passionate anti-war film is a tale of two families
		Moore also has queasy new war zone footage of US soldiers humiliating their prisoners while others snap away with their digital cameras, although he is noticeably keen to demonise the politicians, not the military.
	film.guardian.co.uk /News_Story/Guardian/0,4029,1219240,00.html (744 words)

	Designing Pacifist Films (Paul Goodman)
		War talkers are pretty close to fools or else not a little crazy; their postures and remarks are not proper to normal grown men.
		A film might profitably analyze the military posture, pelvis retracted, belly kept hard, exhalation restricted; the military ethos of inhibited feeling; the conceit of superiority by slavish identification with authority symbols.
		In my opinion, let me say, there is also natural violence that diminishes war, e.g., the explosion of passion, the fist fight that clears the air, the gentle forcing of the virginal, the quarrel that breaks down the barriers to interpersonal contact.
	www.bopsecrets.org /CF/goodman.htm (2759 words)

	War and Anti-War Films
		This war film flopped, probably because it echoed Wayne's earlier westerns and cowboys-vs-Indians mentality, with the star apparently engaging the enemy singlehandedly, and walking off into the sunset at film's end.
		The film industry finally released films of greater substance and violence on the subject of Vietnam, and realistically examined the disturbing effects of the war.
		Critically-acclaimed films in the 1980s also examined the Vietnam experience, portraying war as a living hell.
	www.filmsite.org /warfilms4.html (1125 words)

	First World War.com - Encyclopedia - Potemkin
		The role of Potemkin in 1905 was subsequently depicted on film by famed director Sergei Eisenstein in 1925.
		Both British and German fleets had around 45 submarines available at the time of the Battle of Jutland, but none were put to use.
	www.firstworldwar.com /atoz/potemkin.htm (161 words)

	Fidelio's Film Central
		A Very Long Engagement is an epic film that ranks up there with Kubrick’s Paths of Glory, another WWI anti-war film where soldiers are executed to save face, out of the stupidity and banality of war.
		A Very Long Engagement is so much more than just beautiful and sometimes gruesome imagery; it’s an epic love story and an anti-war film all rolled into one.
		Due to the horrors of war, Manech and four other soldiers injure themselves, hoping to be sent home.
	www.geocities.com /fidelio1st/film/verylongengagementm.html (583 words)

	Indymedia UK - Anti War Film Festival, London
		Indymedia UK - Anti War Film Festival, London
		Introduced by film makers Ken Loach & Alex Cox (TBC) and a selection of contemporary thinkers we aim to look at the war on terrorism, Iraqi conflicts and implications of warfare in general.
		"Not in my name" is a powerful new documentary film which tells the story of the U.S. led war on terrorism you DIDN'T see on TV.
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2003/04/63737.html (779 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Anti-war film takes Sundance award
		Rap-music film Hustle and Flow about a pimp suffering a mid-life crisis earned the audience award for a dramatic film and Murderball about quadriplegic men who play a rugby-like game in wheelchairs won the documentary audience award.
		This year for the first time, Sundance held competitions for world documentaries and dramas, and the global cinema winners and movies also came to Sundance with anti-war themes.
		The world documentary audience favorite was Shake Hands With the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire, a Canadian film about the man who commanded the undermanned UN peacekeeping force in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/A3D5C3C9-08C1-4E3D-9F23-546E116CB2A9.htm (534 words)

	Anti-war film and discussion in Cleveland : Cleveland IMC
		Anti-war film "We Interrupt This Empire" and two protestor/speakers facilitate a discussion on "Which Way for the Anti-War Movement?"
		Anti-war film and discussion in Cleveland : Cleveland IMC
		on the war, the attacks on civil liberties, and the
	cleveland.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=9571 (156 words)

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