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Anti-war films may criticize armed conflicts in a general sense to illustrate that war is futile and a loss for all sides involved, while others focus on acts within a specific war, such as poison gas use or
genocidal Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in 1944, combining the Greek word (, "race, people") with the Latin ...
killing of civilians. There also are anti-war movies that use
parody A parody, also known as a spoof, a satire, a send-up, a take-off, a lampoon, a play on (something), or a caricature, is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satiric or ironic imitation. Often its subj ...
and
black comedy Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, morbid humor, or gallows humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discus ...
to satirize wars and conflicts that do not necessarily take place on the battlefield. Additionally,
non-fictional Nonfiction, or non-fiction, is any document or content (media), media content that attempts, in good faith, to provide information (and sometimes opinions) grounded only in facts and real life, rather than in imagination. Nonfiction is often ass ...
anti-war films aim to document the realities of war or historical events. The following is a list of anti-war films.


Anti-war films


See also

* List of anti-war books *
List of anti-war songs Some anti-war songs lament aspects of wars, while others satirize war. Most promote peace in some form, while others sing out against specific armed conflicts. Still others depict the physical and psychological destruction that warfare causes to ...
* List of anti-war plays *
List of films about nuclear issues This is a list of films about nuclear issues: Documentary films * ''Ashes to Honey'' * '' The Atom Strikes!'' * ''The Atomic Cafe'' * ''Atomic Ed and the Black Hole'' * ''Atomic Power'' * '' The Bomb (2015)'' * ''Chernobyl Heart'' * ''Command an ...
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List of peace activists This list of peace activists includes people who have proactively advocated diplomatic, philosophical, and non-military resolution of major territorial or ideological disputes through nonviolent means and methods. Peace activists usually work ...


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