Bridge on the River Kwai starring Alec Guinness is a thoughtful, emotionally dynamic examination of the burdens of warfare.

Spielberg’s WotW, by contrast, is both vastly bigger and strikingly smaller. It’s one of the most intimate large-scale ...

From fictional epics like American Sniper to biographical accounts like Lone Survivor, the greatest modern war movies know how to stir audiences.

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