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War in popular culture

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The following is a list of pop culture references to war.

Contents

Persian Gulf Wars

  • The Hurt Locker
  • Courage Under Fire
  • Jarhead
  • Three Kings

    • Vietnam War

  • Apocalypse Now
  • Full Metal Jacket
  • Operation Dumbo Drop
  • Platoon
  • The Deer Hunter
  • Combat Shock

    • American Civil War

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Gettysburg
  • Gods and Generals
    • Confederate
  • Cold Mountain
  • Gone with the wind
    • Union
  • Glory

    • Sierra Leone Civil War

  • Blood Diamonds

    • Spanish Civil War

  • For Whom the Bell Tolls - 1943 film by Ernest Hemingway about a young American who fights in the International Brigades.
  • Land and Freedom, by Ken Loach. Although the subject of the film is not the International Brigades, it portrays international volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. The actual International Brigades are featured.
  • Memories of a Future - 2007 film by Margaret Dickinson and Pepe Petos. This documentary follows a group of volunteers of the International Brigades, their friends and family travelling back to Figueres Spain in 2006. The film interrogates the relevance of the veteran's deed and contextualises it in current social and political climate.
  • The plot of Pan's Labyrinth by Mexican film-maker Guillermo del Toro takes place five years after the war.
  • Sierra de Teruel by André Malraux, features the International bomber squadron in margin of the Brigades
  • To My Son In Spain: Finnish Canadians in the Spanish Civil War, by Dave Clement, Kelly Saxberg, Saku Pinta, Sonya Lacroix and Michelle Derosier (Thunderstone Pictures). This documentary features the story of Jules Paivio, one of the last living Canadian volunteers of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion of the International Brigades.

    • World War I

  • A Very Long Engagement
  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • The Blue Max
  • Gallipoli
  • Grand Illusion
  • Hell's Angels
  • Joyeux Noël
  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • Paths of Glory
  • Passchendale
  • Sergeant York
  • What Price Glory?
  • War Horse
  • Wilson

    • World War II

    European Theater
  • A Bridge Too Far
  • Atonement
  • Battleground
  • The Big Red One
  • Come and See
  • Cross of Iron
  • Defiance
  • The Devil's Brigade
  • Die Brücke
  • The Diary of Anne Frank
  • The Dirty Dozen
  • Downfall
  • Enemy At The Gates
  • Inglourious Basterds
  • The Longest Day
  • Miracle at St. Anna
  • Patton
  • The Pianist
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • Schindler's List
  • Valkyrie
    • Pacific Theater
  • Australia
  • Beach Red
  • The Burmese Harp
  • Cry of Battle
  • Empire of the Sun
  • Flags of Our Fathers
  • Fires on the Plain
  • From Here to Eternity
  • The Great Raid
  • Guadalcanal Diary
  • Hell to Eternity
  • Letters From Iwo Jima
  • Merrill's Marauders
  • Pearl Harbor
  • Sands of Iwo Jima
  • The Thin Red Line
  • Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
  • Tora! Tora! Tora!
  • Windtalkers


    • Spanish American War

    The Rough Riders

    Indo-Pakistani War of 1971

  • Border

    • Music

  • The Hope, depicting the battle of Copenhagen

    • Theatre

  • Les Misérables
  • Miss Saigon

    • American Revolutionary War

    Nonfiction
  • McCullough, David. 1776.
    • Fiction
  • Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain

    • French Revolution

    Fiction
  • Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables.
  • Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities.

    • American Civil War

    Fiction
  • Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage.
  • Frazier, Charles. Cold Mountain.
  • Hicks, Robert. The Widow of the South.
  • Hunt, Irene. Across Five Aprils.
  • Mitchell, Margaret. Gone With the Wind.
  • Shaara, Jeffrey. Gods and Generals.
  • Shaara, Michael. The Killer Angels.

    • World War I

    Nonfiction
  • Graves, Robert. Good-Bye to All That.
  • Lawrence, T. E.. Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
    • Fiction
  • Cummings, E. E.. The Enormous Room.
  • Hašek, Jaroslav. The Good Soldier Švejk.
  • Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms.
  • Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front.

    • Spanish Civil War

    Nonfiction
  • Alexander, Bill. British Volunteers For Liberty.
  • Baxell, Richard. British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, Routledge, 2004
  • Beevor, Antony . The Battle for Spain, 2006, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006. ISBN 978-0-297-84832-5
  • Fisher, Harry. Comrades: Tales of a Brigadista in the Spanish Civil War University of Nebraska Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8032-6899-8
  • Grey, Daniel. Homage to Caledonia
  • Lee, Laurie. A Moment of War, ISBN 978-0-14-015622-5
  • Marty, André. Historia Política y Militar de las Brigadas Internacionales
  • Monks, Joe. With the Reds in Andalusia
  • O'Riordan, Michael. Connolly Column, Dublin, New Books, 1979
  • Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia.
  • Rust, Bill. Britons in Spain.
  • Ryan, Frank, editor. Book of the 15th Brigade, Madrid, Commissariat of War, 1938.
  • Thomas, Hugh. The Spanish Civil War, 4th Rev Ed, 2003. ISBN 978-0-14-101161-5
    • Fiction
  • Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls.
  • Malraux, Andre. Man's Hope.
  • Mitford, Nancy. The Pursuit of Love.
  • Regler, Gustav. The Great Crusade.
  • Sansom, C. J. Winter in Madrid.
  • Weiss, Peter. The Aesthetics of Resistance.

    • World War II

    Nonfiction
  • Frank, Anne. The Diary of a Young Girl.
  • Wiesel, Elie. Night.
    • Fiction
  • Heller, Joseph. Catch-22.
  • Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars.
  • Vonnegut, Kurt. Mother Night.
  • Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five.
  • Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief.

    • Vietnam War

    Fiction
  • O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried.

    • Poetry

  • Binyon, Laurence. "Ode of Remembrance."
  • Owen, Wilfred, "Dulce et Decorum est","Anthem for Doomed Youth"
  • Sassoon, Siegfried, "The General","Base Details"
  • Whitehouse, John. "Ode to War."

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