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Decade: Rating: List Type:

491

8.8

8.7

Harakiri (1962)

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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

2957

8.3

8.4

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb... (1964)

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207

8.8

8.5

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)

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The Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity

150

8.8

8.5

The Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity (1959)

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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

181

8.8

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

358

8.2

7.9

Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

Monsieur Verdoux is an allegory for the Holocaust and capitalist destruction of human lives.

Mr. Saturn's rating:

1163

8.4

Paths of Glory (1957)

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3793

8.2

8.4

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

498

8.3

8.1

The Grand Illusion (1937)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

3024

8.3

8.4

Princess Mononoke (1997)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

403

8.4

8.6

Night and Fog (1956) (1957)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

112

8.7

8.2

The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1987)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

699

8.4

8.3

Come and See (1985)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

1998

8.3

8.5

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

1631

8.1

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

1485

8.3

8.5

The Great Dictator (1941)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

115

8.1

Fires on the Plain (1959)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

575

8.1

7.9

Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

168

8.4

8.2

The Shop on Main Street (1965)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

1510

7.9

Castle in the Sky (1986)

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7.7

7.3

The Little Island (1958)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

118

8.3

Lessons of Darkness (2002)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

1996

8.1

The Deer Hunter (1979)

The Deer Hunter has been criticized for being jingoistic by the critic Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Waving its snout in your face, it asks you to suspend whatever precious intelligence that you have in exchange for a good cry about what nasty old Vietnam has done to poor beleaguered America.

If you view the final scene as ironic or an example of flag-waving, you can interpret the film as being anti-war or staunchly pro-war.

Mr. Saturn's rating:

157

8.2

8.1

Burmese Harp (1956) (1957)

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1978

7.6

The Iron Giant (1999)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

238

8.2

Forbidden Games (1952)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

7.5

7.3

The Big Snit (1985)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

3983

8.3

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

494

8.3

8.1

Ivan's Childhood (1962)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

1828

7.4

7.6

The Thin Red Line (1999)

While most war films are "anti-war," they are always anti-war from the point of view of the winning side. They say, "War is hell, and we won." Shouldn't anti-war films be told from the point of view of the losers? War was hell, and they lost. - Roger Ebert

Mr. Saturn's rating:

1080

6.7

7.2

Born on the Fourth of July (1990)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

4047

8.1

8.5

The Pianist (2002)

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The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)

190

7.6

8.1

The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)... (2004)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

2539

7.7

8.1

Platoon (1987)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

129

8.1

7.6

The Red and the White (1967)

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7.6

7.9

Neighbours (1952)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

2081

6.6

7.2

Starship Troopers (1997)

Mr. Saturn's rating:

446

8.1

The Sacrifice (1986)

187

Fail-Safe (1964)

372

8.6

8.3

The Cranes Are Flying (1957)

231

8.5

8.2

Soy Cuba (1964)

158

7.8

7.9

The Big Parade (1926)

105

8.5

8.2

Hearts and Minds (1975)

7.7

J'accuse (1919)

169

8.3

8.2

Ballad of a Soldier (1959)

310

7.8

7.9

Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

1136

8.2

8.3

Das Boot (1981)

156

7.7

Barefoot Gen (1983)

7.1

7.2

Hadashi no Gen 2 (1986)

6.7

7.5

The Weather Underground (2003)

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My favorite anti-war films and watch-list.

Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, Full Metal Jacket, and The Fog of War aren't clearly anti-war or pro-war.

Please recommend any great antiwar or pacifist films.
★★★
Duck Soup
Peace on Earth
I'm not interested in seeing these movies:
Three Kings
A Farewell to Arms