The Impact of War on Society and Filmmaking
God created a land and gave humans minds. The problem is that people’s minds don’t think alike. This is why ego dominates the mind. This ego has awakened the hunger for power and control.
What could be the reason for one country to wage war against another? Or for one group to fight another? If we can understand the answers to these questions, we would be astonished to learn that it is only our weaknesses that turn us into animals. Every battle may lead to the victory of a few, but the greatest defeat is for humanity itself.
Wars are not only fought on borders but also mentally and technically. In recent years, there have been bio wars and media wars as well. We need to understand that humans, in their quest for power, are turning into the demon.
The Story Of Foolish Bhasmasura
In one of the ancient stories from Indian Mythology, demon Bhasma Sur was granted a boon by God that whoever he placed his hand on would be turned to ashes. In his arrogance, he started misusing his power and began turning innocent creatures into ashes. Lord Vishnu then came forward to protect everyone by transforming into a beautiful woman named Mohini. Attracted to Mohini, Bhasma Sur started dancing with her. While dancing, Mohini placed her hand on her own head. Seeing this, Bhasma Sur imitated her and placed his hand on his own head, thus turning himself to ashes. This story teaches us that possessing power leads to arrogance. Those who worship power with humility can never be defeated, and such individuals always protect their country and loved ones.
The negative consequences of any war affect not only the people of that country but also nature, innocent humans and mute animals. It was evident in the Gulf War, the entire sea became polluted, and many birds died.
In this never-ending cycle of revenge, humans are crushed like wheat. The International Court of Law needs to change its role. The directives given by this court are limited; after a war, the guilty country must face official sanctions or measures that result in economic and political penalties.
Movies are a mirror of society. They take us through history and the future in an engaging manner. Whenever there is a war, it involves bravery, betrayal, readiness, sacrifice, and cruelty. History witnesses that most war films emerge after wars. We have collected list of such stories of drama and valour in the list below. We hope that viewers learn good lessons from watching these best war films.
War films After World war 1 (1914–1918) & 2 (1939-1945)
- All quiet on the western front ( 1930)
- The dawn patrol (1930)
- Hell’s Angel’s ( 1930)
- Doughboys ( 1930)
- Journeys end ( 1930)
- Suicide fleet ( 1931)
- British agent ( 1931)
- Dishonoured ( 1931)
- Chances (1931)
- Sky devils ( 1932)
- The lost patrol ( 1934)
- Here comes the navy ( 1934)
- Waterloo bridge ( 1934)
- The lives of Bengal lancer ( 1935)
- Devil dogs of the air ( 1935 )
- Forever England ( 1935 )
- The last of the Mohicans ( 1936)
- The charge of the light brigade ( 1936)
- Secret agent ( 1936 )
- Nurse Edith Cavell ( 1936 )
- The high command ( 1937)
- Another dawn ( 1937)
- They give him a gun ( 1937)
- Blockade ( 1938)
- The shopworn angel ( 1938)
- Beau geste ( 1939)
- Ganga din ( 1939)
- Wings of the navy ( 1939)
- The four feathers ( 1939)
- Confessions of a Nazi spy ( 1939)
- British intelligence ( 1940)
- Foreign correspondent ( 1940)
- Pimpernel Smith ( 1941)
- Cottage to let ( 1941)
- Caught in the draft (1941)
- 49th parallel ( 1941)
- Dive bomber ( 1941)
- Casablanca ( 1942)
- They raid by night ( 1942)
- The dawn express ( 1942)
- They day will dawn ( 1942)
- To be or not to be ( 1942)
- To the shores of Tripoli (1942)
- Secret mission ( 1942)
- In which way we serve ( 1942)
- Warn the man ( 1943)
- Desperate journey (1942)
- Yellow canary ( 1943)
- We dive at dawn ( 1943)
- Minesweeper ( 1943)
- Air force ( 1943)
- Action in the north Atlantic ( 1943)
- Victory through air power ( 1943)
- Sahara ( 1943)
- Tonight, we raid Calais ( 1943)
- This is the army ( 1943)
- Crash dive ( 1943)
- The adventures of Tartu ( 1943)
- Since you went away ( 1944)
- A Canterbury tale ( 1944)
- Lifeboat ( 1944)
- Candlelight in Algeria ( 1944)
- Four Jill’s in jeep ( 1944)
- None shall escape (1944)
- Wing and a prayer ( 1944)
- Thirty seconds over a Tokyo( 1944)
- Back to Bataan ( 1945)
- Objective, Burma ( 1945)
- They were expendable ( 1945)
- O.S.S ( 1946)
- I see a dark stranger ( 1946)
- Desire me ( 1946)
- Against the wind (1948)
- Arch of triumph ( 1948)
- Command decision ( 1948)
- Battleground ( 1949)
- Twelve o’clock high ( 1949)
- The third man ( 1949)
- Tripoli ( 1950)
- Three came home ( 1950)
- American Guerrilla in the Philippines ( 1950)
- At war with the army ( 1950)
- Morning departure( 1950)
- The big lift ( 1950)
- The red badge of courage ( 1951)
- The frogmen ( 1951)
- The African queen ( 1951)
- Go for broke ( 1951)
- Decision before dawn ( 1951)
- The tanks are coming ( 1951)
- The desert fox ( 1951)
- Halls of Montezuma ( 1951)
- What price glory ( 1952l
- 5 fingers ( 1952)
- Above and beyond ( 1952)
- Diplomatic courier ( 1952)
- Operation secret ( 1952)
- 5 fingers ( 1952 )
- Malta story ( 1953)
- Stalag 17 ( 1953)
- From here to eternity ( 1953)
- The war of the worlds ( 1953)
- The desert rats ( 1953)
- Appointment in London ( 1953)
- The Caine mutiny ( 1954)
- Betrayed ( 1954)
- The purple plain ( 1954)
- Dragonfly squadron ( 1954 )
- Reach head ( 1954)
- They who dare ( 1954)
- Strategic air command ( 1955)
- Mister Roberts (1955)
- The sea chase ( 1955)
- To hell and back (1955)
- Above us the waves ( 1955)
- Storm over the Nile ( 1955)
- War and peace ( 1955)
- Private’s progress ( 1956)
- Away all boats ( 1956)
- The battle of the river plate ( 1956)
- A town like Alice ( 1956)
- The conqueror ( 1956 )
- The wings of eagles (1957)
- Yangtze incident: The story of HMS amethyst (1957)
- Hellcats of the navy (1957)
- The enemy below (1957)
- Heaven knows Mr. Allison ( 1957)
- The bridge on the river kwai ( 1957)
- Paths of glory ( 1957)
- Battle hymn ( 1957)
- The silent enemy ( 1958)
- No time for sergeant ( 1958)
- Sea of sand ( 1958)
- Carve her name with pride ( 1958)
- The camp on blood island ( 1958)
- Run silent run deep ( 1958)
- Further up the creek ( 1958)
- The decks ran road ( 1958)
- I was Monty’s double ( 1958)
- A time to love and a time to die ( 1958)
- Ghost of China sea ( 1958)
- Yesterday’s enemy ( 1958)
- Up periscope ( 1959)
- North west frontier (1959)
- Idol on parade ( 1959)
- The navy lark (1959)
- Battle of the coral ( sea )
- Desert mice (1959)
- Operation petticoat (1959)
- North west frontier ( 1959)
- All the young men ( 1960)
- The mountain road ( 1960)
- Battle 9f blood island ( 1960)
- Sink the Bismarck ( 1960)
- Tunes of glory ( 1960)
- Foxhole in Cairo ( 1960)
- Jungle fighters ( 1961)
- Then there were three ( 1961)
- The guns of Navarone ( 1961)
- Tarnished heroes (1961)
- On the double ( 1961)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1961)
- The longest day ( 1961 )
- Damn the defiant ( 1962)
- No man is an island ( 1962)
- We joined the navy ( 1962)
- The war lover ( 1962)
- A gathering of eagles ( 1963)
- The great escape ( 1963)
- The victors ( 1963)
- 55 days at Peking ( 1963)
- 633 squadron ( 1964)
- 36 hours ( 1964)
- Zulu ( 1964)
- The secret of blood island ( 1964)
- King and country ( 1964)
- The secret invasion ( 1964)
- Fail safe ( 1964)
- Dr. Strangelove ( 1964)
- The thin red line ( 1964)
- In harm’s way ( 1965)
- Battle of the bulge ( 1965)
- Von Ryan’s express ( 1965 )
- None but the brave ( 1965)
- The Bedford incident ( 1965)
- Ambush bay (1966)
- The sand pebbles ( 1966)
- The blue max ( 1966)
- Cast a giant shadow ( 1966)
- Triple cross (1966)
- Tobruk (1967)
- The young warriors ( 1967)
- The dirty dozen ( 1967)
- Attack on the iron coast ( 1968)
- War kill ( 1968)
- Where eagles dare ( 1968)
- The green berets (1968)
- Ice station zebra (1968)
- The battle of Anzio ( 1968)
- The devil’s brigade ( 1968)
- The secret 9f Santa Victoria ( 1969)
- Battle of Britain ( 1969)
- Oh! What a lovely war ( 1969)
- Mosquito squadron ( 1969)
- 100 rifles ( 1969)
- The war devils ( 1969)
- Kelly’s heroes ( 1970)
- Mash ( 1970)
- Patton ( 1970)
- Which way to the front ( 1970)
- Tora Tora Tora ( 1970)
- Dads’ army ( 1970)
- Zeppeli ( 1971)
- Von richthofen and brown ( 1971)
- Murphy’s war ( 1971)
- Adolf Hitler : My part in his downfall ( 1973)
- The red badge of courage ( 1974)
- Barry Lyndon ( 1975)
- Aces high( 1976)
- Voyage of the damn ( 1976)
- The eagle has landed (1976)
- Shout at the devil (1976)
- Cross of iron ( 1977)
- The prisoner in the middle (1977)
- A br9dge too far ( 1977)
- Force 10 from Navarone ( 1978)
- The deer hunter ( 1978)
- Zulu dawn ( 1979)
- 1941 (1979)
- Escape to Athena ( 1979)
- Apocalypse now ( 1979)
- From hell to victory ( 1979)
- Yanks ( 1979 )
- The dogs of war ( 1980)
- The sea wolves ( 1980)
- The final countdown ( 1980)
- Breaker Morant ( 1980)
- The big red one (1980)
- Playing for time ( 1980)
- Das boot ( 1981)
- Gallipoli ( 1981)
- Stripes ( 1981)
- World War III ( 1982)
- Inside the third Reich ( 1982)
- Under fire ( 1983)
- To be or not to be ( 1983)
- Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence ( 1983)
- A soldier story ( 1984)
- The razor’s edge ( 1984)
- The killing fields ( 1984)
- Missing in action ( 1984)
- Missing in action 2 ( the beginning) ( 1985)
- Wild geese Ii ( 1985)
- Wild wind ( 1985)
- Platoon ( 1986)
- Salvador ( 1986)
- Heartbreak ridge ( 1986)
- POW the escape ( 1986)
- Hamburger hill ( 1987)
- Empire of the sun ( 1987)
- Hell on the battleground ( 1987)
- Full metal jacket ( 1987)
- Escape from sobibor ( 1987)
- Good morning, Vietnam ( 1987)
- The dirty dozen – the deadly mission 1 , the fatal mission 2 ( 1987)
- Bat 21 ( 1988)
- Too young the hero ( 1988 )
- The beast of war ( 1988)
- Iron eagle ( 1988)
- Glory (1989)
- Casualties of wat ( 1989)
- Born on the 4th of July ( 1989)
- Name Angel’s (1989)
- The siege of firebase gloria ( 1989)
- A man called sarge ( 1989)
- Night of the fox ( 1990)
- Prisoners of the son ( 1990)
- The plot to kill Hitler ( 1990)
- The hunt for red October ( 1990)
- Prahaar – the attack ( 1991)
- Iron eagle 3 (1992)
- Stalingrad (1993)
- Gettysburg (1993)
- Sniper ( 1993)
- Schindler’s list ( 1993)
- Fatherland ( 1994)
- World war 2 – When lions roar (1994)
- In the army now ( 1994)
- Iron eagle 4 ( 1994)
- Sahara ( 1995)
- The walking dead ( 1995)
- Braveheart (1995)
- Crimson tide ( 1995)
- Mother night (1995)
- The English patient ( 1996)
- Welcome to Sarajevo ( 1997)
- Border ( 1997)
- Seven years in Tibet ( 1997)
- The thin red line ( 1998)
- Saving private Ryan ( 1998)
- Goodnight mister tom ( 1998)
- When trumpets fade ( 1998)
- The Pentagon wars ( 1998)
- A soldier’s sweetheart ( 1998)
- The trench ( 1999)
- The General’s daughter ( 1999)
- Men of honour ( 2000)
- Tiger land ( 2000)
- U-571 (2000)
- The patriot ( 2000)
- The lost battalion (2001)
- All the queen’s men ( 2001)
- Black hawk dawn (2001)
- Attila ( 2000)
- Enemy at the gates ( 2001)
- Churchill – The Hollywood years (2001)
- The grey zone ( 2001)
- Conspiracy ( 2001)
- Charlotte Gray ( 2001)
- Buffalo soldiers ( 2001)
- Hornblower : mutiny (2001)
- Hornblower : 6 retribution(2002)
- Marines (2002)
- Amen ( 2002)
- Path to war ( 2002)
- The pianist ( 2002)
- K -19 : the windowmaker (2002)
- Hart’s war ( 2002)
- We were soldiers ( 2002)
- Wind talkers ( 2002)
- Bloody Sunday ( 2002)
- Sniper 2 ( 2002)
- Saints and soldiers ( 2003)
- LOC – Kargil ( 2003)
- Gods and Generals ( 2003)
- Air strike ( 2003)
- Tears of the sun (2003)
- Cold mountain ( 2003)
- The last samurai ( 2003)
- Master and commander : the far side of the world
- Fire over Afghanistan ( 2003)
- In enemy hands ( 2005)
- Purple heart ( 2005)
- Flyboys ( 2006)
- Only the brave ( 2006)
- My boy jack ( 2007)
- The red baron ( 2008)
- The hurt locker ( 2008)
- Everyman’s war ( 2009)
- Brothers war ( 2009)
- Age of heroes ( 2011)
- 1911 ( 2011)
- Emperor ( 2012 )
- Red tails ( 2012 )
- The patrols ( 2013)
- Allies (2014)
- Fury (2014)
- Beasts of no nation ( 2015)
- USS Indianapolis- men of courage ( 2016)
- Sandcastle ( 2017)
- Dunkirk ( 2017)
- Thousand-yard stare ( 2018 )
- Down river ( 2018 )
- The filthy thirteen ( 2019)
- The kill team ( 2019)
- The great war ( 2019 )
- The last full measure ( 2019)
- Rocket hunter ( 2020)
- Top gunner ( 2020)
- 409 bullets ( 2021)
- Operation Seawolf ( 2022)
- Condors nest ( 2023 )
- Assault on hill 400 ( 2023 )
- Sisu (2023)
- War blade ( 2024)
- Iriana’s blade ( 2024)
- Murder company ( 2024)
- The shamrock spitfire ( 2024)
World without War and Violence
How beautiful this world would be if no country ever waged war against another. The money spent on buying weapons, if used for pollution control, education, employment, green earth initiatives, and many other welfare projects, would make this earth even more beautiful than heaven.
