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War Movie is a five part documentary series that examines not only the history of war in American cinema, but how this medium has shaped our country's perspective on conflict, foreign policy, race, masculinity and national identity.

​Cinematic depictions of military conflict have been common since the first crank of a shutter. From early films like The Birth of a Nation to recent entries The Hurt Locker and Dunkirk, the atrocities of war have never strayed far from the silver screen. Whether praised by critics or criticized by veterans who were there, war films play an integral part of our cultural understanding. 

War Movie looks at the history of these films and attempts to understand why we’re compelled to experience and reimagine our own violence on screen. Rather than a simple survey, War Movie examines our complex psychological relationship with the genre. By interviewing cinema studies scholars, creatives that bring these films to life and veteran perspectives, War Movie unpacks the over one hundred year history of military conflict on screen.  

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Episode 1
The Camera and the Gun: 1900 - 1938
The Birth of Cinema, silent Civil War films and The Great War. The relationship of the gun/camera, and defining the anti-war film.

Episode 2
The Good War: 1939 - 1949
The Second World War. The power of cinematic propaganda and how film began to define the memory of war for Americans.

Episode 3
The Shifting Tide: 1950 -1975
The Korean Conflict, the Cold War, nuclear fears and the Vietnam war. The rise and fall of the studio system and the cultural shift in the country.

Episode 4
Into the Jungle: 1976 - 2000
The Vietnam war on film, the Reagan Years, the Gulf war and the return of the Civil War and World War Two narratives. How war films have both the power to heal the country of it's past, but also perpetuate concepts of violence, nationalism and false masculinity.


​Episode 5
Brave NewWorld: 2001- 2020
9/11, the war on terror, conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The shifting technologies of warfare give new visions on the screen and what war films say about our countries future.