Hollywood is no stranger to the war film. In fact, it’s one of the first genres to grace the big screen way back in the early 20th century. Unfortunately, we’ve seen a great deal of warfare over the course of human history, ranging from Biblical times to World War II to Vietnam and beyond. All of these great, terrible conflicts have been catalogued in cinema, but there’s one subgenre of war movies that is more rare: modern warfare.
There are relatively few great modern war tales when compared to cinematic masterpieces about Vietnam, the World Wars, or the U.S. Civil War. Oftentimes we need to reflect on a war and see its aftermath to really be able to put it into a cultural context in the movies, which might be why the modern warfare genre is slim compared to history that’s well in the rear view.
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