they are guarding gaza's pedestal you know box. a legacy in black and white. collected memories starts of his 14th on d w. 4 films are really a way for people to transmit a kind of history lesson. almost every filmmaker ultimately they want to make a war film. the

feel of the trenches at a safe distance war on the silver screen whether patriotic glorification or cautionary tale movies shaped our ideas about war they tell stories of heroism. and trauma wheelchairs. but where are the black soldiers on the cinematic battlefield and what roles do women play in war movies we put the film genre in our crosshairs 75 years after the end of world war 2. most of us have never and hopefully will never go to war. our experience of battle comes from the movies. war has fascinated filmmakers from the start of. battle scenes push the technical limits of movie make.

over a century of cinema war movies have become more intense more realistic and more violent . left. but they show us what war is really like sam fuller hollywood director and world war 2 veteran i didn't think it caller who was sometimes in a bad mood would then say if you really wanted to film war you would have to actually fire real and you nation out of the audience are over the heads of the audience. one of the 1st great war films was the list milestones classic. all quiet on the western front it was the 1st popular movie to depict the floors of

world war one minute you know. this one is also quiet on the western front because of course a groundbreaking work of course and this i think expects all that shows the ugly side of the war on my particular on a mass deaths on the western front to get psyched to think that. most own was a declared pacifist but even his movie makes war seem exciting. and so you see the machine gun and then in the reverse shock you see the people that are being mowed down as though it was the camera itself mo when the people down he can't get out of this problem which is to say that he has to stage the very drama that he's also trying to criticize. the excitement of war cinemas taken to the extreme in 1917 director sam mendez depicts his grandfather's experience in world war one as a grand adventure. indeed hunter said half

a century later in vietnam war is not a fun adventure the infamous game of russian roulette may or may not be historically accurate for director michael chaney no russian roulette is a metaphor for how combat really feels. combat is waiting because of firefly usually is fierce. unbelievably. insane and this is over in a very short space of time. and then you're. you're a paraplegic. one of the through between you know. when steven spielberg recreated the world war 2 d.-day landings in saving private ryan he made it as visceral and violent as anything deer hunter. spielberg wanted to try to put the viewer exactly in the position of one of the

infantry soldiers you know who had. his body was essentially you know a target the viewer can feel the fear the. the excitement the pressure the terror the nervousness everything there's no other way that an audience would get that much of a strong impression of exactly what it was like to be in that battle. because it's very uncomfortable for the viewer but at the same time in an almost perverse way it's fascinating and he said because it's like going on a ghost writer on the gossip we experience something that we're not really experiencing. you know the monsters are real and in the movie you know the war isn't real this. moment i mean in the end war cinema remains entertainment war cinema is never a war. our movie memory is a battle of become more visceral and more violent but we're still

a long way from knowing what war is really like serious. they're both fascinating and horrifying films that are critical of war. i love the smell of the top of the morning. felt like the. victory. it's one of the most quoted lines from a war film rather deval cynical commentry as will kill goal in a couple clips now. this comes

shortly after he and his troops carry out the helicopter attack on a vietnamese village accompanied by phadnis ride as a valid trace francisco ca christmas which we will ask total madness. one country. you can say that i'm tired working almost normal domes in which war should never be justified. come they have them in the contrast for me the war films i do yours may be justified but they still do not say that war is beautiful or good what's in the south and they still show the horrors of war he talks them off the shock nisqually this type. of war like the 2nd world war in the jedi doesn't decision and loyalty determine victory in defeat the director robert objects the ends justify the means as long as the nazis only limited. if it.

means brando see this just to learn you sent to viet nam to free american treasonous bill maher singlehandedly losing even in real life the united states had lost. sleep. rambo one of those people called the t.v. told that if. the dividing line between propaganda and patriotism between glorification and deterrence is very theme in many films. the cartel they are. the fallout from the american disaster in vietnam pulls more and more filmmakers in hollywood to take a clear stand against war and they were successful all of a stone won for oscars with platoon but can a film really be anti rule have a pacifist message with all the slow some. believe the whole problem with

a pacifist war film is that this is a contradiction in terms. i think it's definitely possible to make war films in such a way that at the end of the film people are filled with what classic tragedy called pity and ah or shock and horror but i think that only works by virtue of the narrative you tell a strong story like the bridge it shocked audiences 15 years after the end of world war 2 was german society was then experiencing an economic miracle that had displaced the memories of killing and dying. the book is something very bridges and that is especially suitable for young people here from the french and that's because it's about young people go and they can identify incredibly well with all these characters that you've got these are there's also an excellent film an incredibly well performed film for the most so you'd like us to take. i don't even know young's ice so i'm going for good professional engine i think i got you all

can just all the boys don't listen and come to regret it deeply then i think he not only wanted to remember the 2nd movement he also gave then. his office the same film that was a film that spoke out against the media the armament just a couple of years after the west german army had been founded. in directly it also asking questions about where the confrontation in the cold war was leading us not been followed it should be forgotten and of the film was released in 196460 one's it shortly before the cuban missile crisis for which the 3rd world war almost broke out at about $3.00 couple. terrence malick is not interested in politics but philosophy in the finrod line he depicts the battle in the pacific and 942 from the perspective of nature. beautiful and disturbing shots he seems to be asking us how can these things co-exist all the beauty and

all the horror the film could hardly explicitly the war has no place on this planet . long. many popular war movies were made in the usa but how close does the hollywood version come to the real thing. most images of american soldiers in war one thing in common all the soldiers are white. african-americans have fought in every american war but black faces in battle have been almost entirely whitewashed from america's visual history . especially at the movies. john wayne is the epitome of the american g.i.

from world war 2 to vietnam hollywood has consistently shown the great white hero saving the world. but hollywood got its history wrong in not getting the true story . in fact the 1st american killed by the british at the boston massacre was a black man i was a black man and. crispus attucks was the 1st in a long line of african-americans who served and died for their country. after the 2nd shot. in before you start a fire all hell breaks loose in 2008 director spike lee told a story of the real life the 92nd infantry division the so-called buffalo soldiers who fought in italy in world war 2. they. were using force. for them and lee's film wasn't the 1st to show black americans in combat in glory

denzel washington plays a soldier in the 1st all black company in the civil war i want to play more of your films with african-american soldiers front and center are still the exception. stripes on there are. like pits in a vault. most studio and most filmmakers have been white males and they've been telling a white male story i'm right but with a black lives matter movement the calls to tell other stories have gotten louder. as have the calls for america to reckon with its buried history. i think that black lives matter and all of the conversation now around social justice and historic reckoning is a really productive one i think it's very very educational why were there not more stories about african-americans put in the forefront why would i or token representations ok this is something that i think is a reckoning that has to happen and it's a good moment to begin it on the. telling me african-american story changes the

heroic image of america seen in most war movies black soldiers who fought fascism abroad came home to a very different country than their white counterparts. contest went right to. the boys was no problem so we just looking for some good advice laughs around but it's. true. they went back to. their group who are serve as one of them it was a hit list to step is you feet over there we're going to eat out of a trough in the backyard like i'm some damn pick only shoot you were followed i had to do was a guy down well america. remembering that forgotten history can help white america understand where today's protests come from. i mean the last time your city had

a curfew was 1943 you know what the reason was black still to come back from war to is killed by a kind. heart went crazy so these rights nuts get the i'm going to get to live with the guys that were right these uprisings. don't come out of nowhere. at least new film shows african americans fighting and dying in vietnam while back home civil rights protests rage. america has been here before one step to imagine a different future will be to put black faces back into america's war history.

the women are rarely in the foreground war movies wouldn't be complete without them . main interacting with men men finding men and men dying with them because of men can seem like an exclusively male affair and war movies especially so where are all the women. they appear rarely often only in the form of a photo or a memory all the designs of those on the front lines like this scene from 1917 a male soldier longing for his wife. they are something worth fighting for what is the virtuous you know family member who's photo is in the pocket of the soldier who he looks at away from the front depictions of the mother figure like here in

spielberg's saving private ryan silently suffering she watches tragic news approaching. we see the fear in her eyes has another of her sons been taken from her. father clips from. women in war films are spectral. counterpoints the man's the i'm over this my it's the middle vice all in human my mr. the only emphasize the hardness in humanity of male behavior as many. he took up with the with his. and landry swing scuffled just to show the. women symbolize goodness that hospital nurses healers they sympathize and give comfort they can also play the role of restoring men for the next battle they feel

keeping the war going for. the women have on some level. of very conservative function they are loyal you know wife and mother who stay behind and wait for their husband to come back they are the ones who keep the country and the family going. in the spielberg film the mother is a strangely passive character her grief is voiceless time on screen less than 10 minutes she's already lost 3 sons to war now the last son james is to be sent home to minimize her anguish. you don't. are as or when your back so i can't leave them when they're supposed to tell your mother. and they send her another folded american flag. tell her that when you found me. i was here

and i was with the only brothers that i have left and there's no way i was going to desert them. for the son can a robbery with his fellow soldiers trumps his mother's grief and so it goes in times of war. sometimes a woman's role is symbolic like when scofield meets a mother and child something like mary and jesus figures. his own dignity. almost hard for me but as soon as the soldier leaves this apparently blessing same feeling continues falling for college women embody the costs of war and even in war films without pacifist undertones since. women are hardly present in the films sexuality and especially homosexuality are completely absent bodily contact happens only for the purpose of annihilation. women characters are only rarely central mrs

min of a shows the suffering of civilians living through war here it's not a man who's the victim of battle but a young woman she dies in the arms of mrs min of a very much an exception in this genre can carry. your. girl you. don't think. the last person a man sees is usually a man you know that whether it's the 1st world war or vietnam war will also destroys those men who make it home alive often they can't relate to their wives count understand what makes them tick a return to normality is unthinkable i'm not going to make excuses for what. what i found. i don't. find that i don't know.

what's led to the lack of women characters in the one dimensional perspective on me could it be the result of decades of male dominated holywood directing. i think it's an interesting question about what women directors will do you when they get a bigger seat at the table and a chance to make more films and to make more high budget films. now it's like i'm going to do. something may have begun to change in the last few years wonder woman signals a new direction the woman goes ahead into battle men follow it's directed by a woman patti jenkins songs have celebrated the film as a kind of feminist manifesto but can there be such a thing as a feminist fulfillment. we're still waiting for her so who are movies that really think battle from the position of women women's violent war hero

doesn't seem like any kind of role model but it's likely police be giving this more in the future lead. when the physical battle and the psychological one begins how hollywood depicts the hidden wounds that wars leave behind. and now long here to tell you that i have killed my country or whatever. and i don't feel good about. this horse drawn over to society lie to me it lied to my brothers and i can't i can't find the words to express leadership of this government sickens me. to veterans with the same. united states since its peak. soldiers. which one is paris now protesting. the 1st time soldiers were allowed to

talk about their war trauma they were not allowed to do that after the 1st or 2nd and also not after the korean war. in coming home from 1988 and change crews in 1991 feeling on the 4th of july that it turns return time now confined to wheelchairs and found they got anything but a hero's welcome part harder than in the vietnam era people who returned put their uniform in the closet and never wore it again in public because the you know people who protested against the war would criticize them and they didn't want to put themselves in that position so i think that these kind of fellows have really helped to process the trauma for veterans for americans who were not involved in the conflict but may be opposed to it to feel st the issues differently one of the stones will leaves room for the possibility that there might be something worth going to do for you to really show that shoulder. across on the does

that but it's a bit different with a film like coming home for i wish primarily shows us that war is often associated with the experiences of people never get over the money money that the war never really ends for the survivors and the burdens heavy applies to happy for one person alone to carry sidearms and. one soldier not to return home. in apocalypse now colonel walter played by brando loses his sanity you must make a friend of hoarder. and. he takes his unit deep into the jungle to service his private army so he can roam free of any concept of morality the character is used as a means to convey director francis ford coppola's antiwar message. these are films that have to really deal with

a kind of national hangover and at the end those he has a mist over the wreckage and carnage is visibly clear and how do you would then deal with that iraq there are no mark like robert altman used to cynicism to make his point in his film mash immobile army surgical hospital looks after the wounded during the korean war but the doctors hearts and minds a focus more on the attractive nurses are on football it's their way of keeping the pain and suffering at bay the harsh reality of what they face every day in the operating theaters. nothing is sacred to outman not even the image of the last supper which he recreates 1st seen the movie a short is heard in this anti war film but punch lines run thick and fast maybe it is the best way to survive a war after all they're well. you know. visit yeah.

yeah the. war movies are gripping both visually and emotionally that's all from this episode of arcs 2175 years after the end of the 2nd world war.

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