… events in the battle, one for each day: the initial defence of … ‘highwater mark of the Confederacy’ on the afternoon of the third … day. Made with thousands of re-enactors as extras and a galaxy of …
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Ron Maxwell
The Front Line (2011)
… for best foreign film at the 2012 Academy Awards, it deals with a … by orders’ says one of the characters, and the film asks … positional warfare that characterised the second half of the …
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Hun Jang
Battle for Haditha (2007)
… and that the stresses soldiers face in a counterinsurgent …
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Nick Broomfield
The Hurt Locker (2009)
… An award-winning and highly acclaimed account of a bomb disposal team … some US veterans for technical inaccuracies. … The Hurt Locker …
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Kathryn Bigelow
Restrepo (2010)
Another award-winning film, this time a documentary on the war in Afghanistan that follows the deployment of a platoon of the 173rd Airborne Brigade in the Korengal Valley.
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Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington
Thin Red Line (1998)
… - with a huge line-up of famous actors – explores the competition between peace and war. Director Terrence … to some of the most hardened characters. Malick magnificently …
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Terrence Malick
The Civil War (1990)
Ken Burns’ magnificent and incredibly influential take on the American Civil War.
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Ken Burns
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)
… and introspection. Looking back on his time as Secretary of … is broken down into 11 sections, each based on lessons learnt. Each has ongoing applicability to …
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Errol Morris
The War (2007)
… Burn’s treatment of the impact and experience of the Second … in the voice introduction to each episode: ‘The Second World War was fought in thousands of places, too many for any one …
