Although war movies usually attract attention because of their action scenes, the first message of these movies is always about the destruction caused by war. The anti-war films in the content are more prominent with these aspects and each one is very valuable in terms of the message they give to the audience.
When you watch these antimilitarist films, which reveal the emotional destruction caused by war by presenting the striking impact of real wars in history on soldiers and civilians, you will not be able to get away from its impact easily.
Anti-War Films
1. South Korea and North Korea, which fought in the early 50s, are in tension even today. This story in the days of the war tells the tragedy caused by the tension between: Brotherhood War
- Year: 2004
- Genre: Action, Drama, War
- IMDb: 8.0
- Director: Je-kyu Kang
- Cast: Won Bin, Dong-Gun Jang
The film, which is about the confrontation of two brothers in the war between South Korea and North Korea in 1950-53, shows with all its striking how great a tragedy the war is due to the intense drama it contains.
The young and inexperienced soldiers of the 2nd Vietnam War are told how they lived in the face of the horrors of war: Detachment
- Year: 1986
- Genre: Drama, War
- IMDb: 8.1
- Director: Oliver Stone
- Stars: Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker
In the movie, the sergeant, whose killing instincts predominate, comes to the fore with his conflicts with the pacifist soldier, and a platoon is thus caught in the middle of a psychological war.
3. The emotional story of a boy named Seita and his younger brother Setsuko: Grave of the Fireflies
- Year: 1988
- Genre: Animation, Drama, War
- IMDb: 8.5
- Director: Isao Takahata
I. Will the two brothers, trying to survive in Japan, which was under American bombardment in World War II, overcome all kinds of difficulties?
4. A masterpiece that gives the same effect every time it is watched: Life is Beautiful
- Year: 1997
- Genre: War, Comedy, Drama
- IMDb: 8.6
- Director: Roberto Benigni
- Cast: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini
II. Guido, who lived a very happy life a few years before World War II, first marries Dora and then they have a child. While everything was perfect, war broke out and they were taken to a concentration camp for being Jewish. Guido will tell his son that the prison camp and the war are just a game.
A production about a Bosnian and Serbian soldier stuck in a neutral zone during the 5th Bosnian War: Neutral Zone
- Year: 2001
- Genre: Drama, War
- IMDb: 7.9
- Director: Danis Tanovic
- Stars: Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac
The year is 1993. The experiences of two enemy soldiers, who remained in the neutral zone in the middle of a war that continues with all its violence, are strong enough to affect both their and the audience’s perspective on the war.
6. II. It has a special place among World War II movies: Saving Private Ryan
- Year: 1998
- Genre: Drama, War
- IMDb: 8.6
- Director: Steven Spielberg
- Stars: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon
Who lost three sons to war A mother wants to hear at least that her last living son is alive. The American army will do its best to save Private Ryan, the mother’s last son.
7. One of the most important works in the history of cinema, which does not get boring even for 3 hours and 15 minutes: Schindler’s List
- Year: 1993
- Genre: Biography, Drama, History
- IMDb: 8.9
- Director: Steven Spielberg
- Cast: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley
The film, which tells the true story of Oscar Schindler, who saved the lives of at least 1,100 Jews, won 7 Oscars and managed to be among the most respected films of all time.
8. One of the most striking anti-war films that have felt its impact since the first day it was watched: The Pianist
- Year: 2002
- Genre: Biography, Drama, War
- IMDb: 8.5
- Director: Roman Polanski
- Stars: Adrien Brody, Emilia Fox
27-year-old Polish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman is playing Chopin’s C minor Nocturne while his radio station is bombed. He is then deported to the Warsaw ghettos just because he is Jewish and finds himself on an extraordinary adventure of survival.
9. A Soviet film about the atrocities committed by the Nazis in Belarus through the story of a little boy: Come and See
- Year: 1985
- Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
- IMDb: 8.3
- Director: Elem Klimov
- Stars: Aleksey Kravchenko , Olga Mironova
In the movie, where the effects of the scenes are increased with Mozart’s music, you watch the reflection of the war on people rather than the war scenes. It is one of the most influential antimilitarist films in terms of the strikingness of its messages.
10. He conveys the events to the audience with his realistic narration as if a camera was caught in life: Turtles Also Fly
- Year : 2004
- Genre: Drama, War
- IMDb: 8.1
- Director: Bahman Ghobadi
- Stars: Avaz Latif
We watch the survival adventure of children in a refugee camp in the film, which conveys the reflections of Saddam Hussein’s genocide against the Kurds. The film allows you to empathize a little with the feelings of the local people in the region, just before the US-Iraq war.
11. The movie that made Christian Bale shine as a child: Empire of the Sun
- Year: 1987
- Genre: Drama, History, War
- IMDb: 7.7
- Director: Steven Spielberg
- Stars: Christian Bale, John Malkovich
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A British boy named Jim is living in Shanghai with his family during World War II. World War II breaks out. Stuck in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, Jim is taken to a concentration camp in Japan.
12. Chaplin’s comedy satirizing Nazi Germany and Hitler: The Great Dictator
- Year: 1940
- Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
- IMDb: 8.4
- Director: Charles Chaplin
- Stars: Charles Chaplin
When Chaplin started making this movie, it was during World War II. World War II could not be read. He drew attention to the dangers of a dictator, as if foretelling what was to come. The film was banned in Germany and Italy at that time. You can watch Chaplin’s legendary speech at the end of the movie in the video.
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