Combat, command, and the cost — from every side of it.
Kubrick's most morally direct film
Best Picture, and an ending that undoes it
the ensemble adventure at its most durable
Altman's breakthrough, a comedy about triage
three acts, and the roulette scene
the shoot nearly killed everyone; the film is extraordinary
the submarine film all others are measured against
Cambodia, and a friendship
the most harrowing war film ever made
Stone's Vietnam, from inside it
two films, both essential
the 54th Massachusetts, and Washington's breakthrough
the best submarine-standoff film since the Cold War
the first 25 minutes changed war films
the other war film that year, and stranger
Denis, and one of the great final scenes
the Revolutionary War at Emmerich scale
combat as pure disorientation
Stalingrad, told as a sniper duel
the bunker, before the memes
the director's cut is a genuinely great film
Eastwood's better half of a diptych
the hardest kind of restraint
Herzog's most conventional, still not conventional
the tavern scene alone
tension as the whole architecture
a year in the Korengal Valley
the descent down the mountain
one night in Belfast, real-time panic
the highest-grossing war film ever made, and hotly argued about
a tank crew, and the claustrophobia of armour
Gibson's return, and the ridge sequence
three timelines, almost no dialogue
Malick's most disciplined late film
the hardest documentary of the decade
