“War is hell,” General William Tecumseh Sherman once stated. Indeed he brought hell into Georgia during the Civil War. Perhaps one of the best ways to remember this truth is through film. Filmmakers the world over have contributed beautiful and devastating works to commemorate the wars of the past. One would always hope that those who create such films are not doing so in order to glorify war, but rather to honor those who have served and further the argument against such conflicts. Mel Gibson said after directing “Hacksaw Ridge” that every war film is an anti-war film. The very content itself should be enough to dissuade anyone from relishing its engagement. The following cover five different wars or conflicts of the past century, but the films themselves were all created this century. ‘They Shall Not Grow Old’ – 2018 (World War I) New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson took on …
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