nsallieharding Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 What Anti-War films or TV Episodes stand clear in your mind leaving you with a true understanding of the horrors and futile endeavors of war? This film is airing now which is a good example of such films How I Won the War (1967) This film features former Beatle John Lennon and Roy Kinnear as ill-fated enlisted men in under the inept command of Lieutenant Earnest Goodbody. The story unwinds mostly in flashbacks of Lieutenant Goodbody who has lower-class beginnings and education which make him a poor officer who commands one of the worst units of the army. Each deceased soldier returns to the movie in a different color. Made when the Vietnam War was in full swing, Vietnam was the conflict being mocked, but this film gains in notoriety because of the Iraq War. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traceyk65 Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 Well, pretty much the entire however many seasons of M*A*S*H* were anti-war, as was the movie. So was "All Quiet on the Western Front," and "A Farewell to Arms" and most of the movies made about the Vietnam War, like "Apocolypse Now" and "Platoon." Maybe "Saving Private Ryan" would fall in this category--it's certainly graphic enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineSage_jr Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT and PATHS OF GLORY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benwhowell Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 What irony! I just posted my picks for best anti-war films on the "favorite war film" thread...but I forgot to include "Woodstock." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benwhowell Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 As for TV episodes-One of my all time fave episodes of "All In The Family" is a Christmas one with a friend of Mike and Gloria (home from "dodging the draft" in Canada) sitting down to dinner with a friend of Archie (who's son has already died in Vietnam.) I look forward to seeing it every Christmas...a real tearjerker... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonParker Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 "All Quiet on the Western Front" and "The Big Parade" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeanddaisy666 Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 Catch 22. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolrob1955 Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 For me, one of the best is 'Doctor Strangelove. Or How I etc. etc.' . Sterling Hayden as General Ripper is superb. How many people do you know who would instigate a global thermonuclear war because of erectile dysfunction ?. I just get drunk and watch a movie on TCM. Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarhfive Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 Hello, I agree with stoneyburke--"Catch 22", the movie. The book "Catch 22" is an incredible anti-war statement. On the other hand, Dalton Trumbo's book "Johnny Got His Gun" is a very powerful anti-war statement. I have not seen the movie "Johnny Got His Gun". I will never watch the movie "Johnny Got His Gun". Rusty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyO Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 I just saw the new film, "Joyoux Noel" about the Christmas truce of 1914. While it, as most historical films do, plays with the facts a bit it is a moving anti-war piece. The scene where the two sides begin to accompany one another on singing Christmas carols brought tears to my eyes. See it if you can! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandykaypax Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 Wasn't there an American film made about the same incident called A MIDNIGHT CLEAR? Or something like that? Sandy K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyO Posted April 16, 2006 Share Posted April 16, 2006 That was a fictional story set in World War II. Still a good movie however. I remember a touching scene where the soldiers prepare one of their dead comrades for burial by washing his body. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CptVirgilHILTZ Posted April 16, 2006 Share Posted April 16, 2006 My Favorite will always be The Bridge (1959) A German film directed by Bernhard Wicki and starring Gunther Hoffman. The Nazis draft young boys from a small town into the armed forces in a last ditch effort to win WWII. Dubbed in English, or with sub titles. Still a good movie. http://tcmdb.com/title/title.jsp?scarlettTitleId=69685 HILTZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandykaypax Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 thanks AndyO. I will have to check out Joyeux Noel. Sandy K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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