16 Facts About War film

War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about naval, air, or land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama.

War film genre is not necessarily tightly defined: the American Film Institute, for example, speaks of "films to grapple with the Great War" without attempting to classify these.

War film's argues that the combat film is not a subgenre but the only genuine kind of war film.

War film is equally critical of Christopher Nolan's 2017 film Dunkirk with its unhistorically empty beaches, low-level air combat over the sea, and rescues mainly by the "little ships".

Ken Burns's The Civil War film is the most-watched documentary in the history of PBS.

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Short "actualities"—documentary War film-clips—included Burial of the Maine Victims, Blanket-Tossing of a New Recruit, and Soldiers Washing Dishes.

Much of the War film was shot on location at the Western Front in France; it had a powerful emotional impact.

The epic 168-minute War film with its landscapes shot in Technicolor and a "beautiful" orchestral score was a success both with audiences and with critics.

Iraq War served as the background story of U S movies, like The Hurt Locker from 2008, Green Zone from 2010, and American Sniper from 2014.

The British film industry began to combine documentary techniques with fictional stories in films like Noel Coward and David Lean's In Which We Serve—"the most successful British film of the war years"—Millions Like Us (1943), and The Way Ahead (1944).

The formula for a successful war film consisted, according to Lawrence Suid, of a small group of ethnically diverse men; an unreasonable senior officer; cowards became heroic, or died.

Jeanine Basinger suggests that a traditional war film should have a hero, a group, and an objective, and that the group should contain "an Italian, a Jew, a cynical complainer from Brooklyn, a sharpshooter from the mountains, a midwesterner, and a character who must be initiated in some way".

The War film, panned by Roger Ebert and The New York Times, was a major success in Japan.

Critics have argued that the film Pearl Harbor's US-biased portrayal of events is a compensation for technical assistance received from the US armed forces, noting that the premiere was held on board a U S Navy carrier.

Many Soviet films about the Second World War include both large-scale epics such as Yury Ozerov's Battle of Moscow and Mikhail Kalatozov's more psychological The Cranes are Flying (1957) on the cruel effects of war; it won the 1958 Palme d'Or at Cannes.

The "definitive" Oscar-winning prisoner of war film was Billy Wilder's Stalag 17, while the brief but powerful prison camp scenes of The Deer Hunter (1978) lend an air of tragedy to the whole of that film.