The war genre in the 1970s became crueler, darker, and angrier, exploring the conflict's contradictions in movies like The Deer Hunter and Catch-22.

Twenty-five years ago, on July 24, 1998, “Saving Private Ryan” was released. It’s a movie that figures high on our list of the 30 Greatest War Films. Yet it’s worth noting just why Steven Spielberg’s ...

Great war movies not only depict the horrors of the battlefield, but also the psychological trauma of those who participate. Of course, the films aren’t all violence and brutality: Ernst Lubitsch used ...