The greatest war movies reckon with the brutal realities of conflict, and some of the genre's greatest entries feature truly devastating endings.
While war movies are often understandably brutal, the best entries into the genre feature devastating endings that effectively capture the futility and bleak brutality of war. War is hell. However, viewers of war movies might understandably come to another conclusion depending on which entries into the genre they consume. A shocking number of war movies portray war as a tragic inevitability, a chance for glory and honor amidst bloodshed, or a necessity that keeps empires alive.
9 Platoon Director Oliver Stone’s unerringly accurate Platoon is one of the most realistic war movies ever, thanks to the helmer’s experience during the Vietnam War. For most of its runtime, Platoon follows the internal divisions in a squad of soldiers fighting in the American invasion of Vietnam. Eventually, both the outright villainous and comparatively naive troops alike are killed in an onslaught. This sequence ends with Charlie Sheen’s Chris able to return home thanks to his two injuries.
6 The Brest Fortress The defense of Brest Fortress was a tremendously significant event in the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. A surprise attack, the Nazi invasion of Brest Fortress, cost the German side an unanticipated number of casualties as Soviet troops fiercely defended their territory. The attack was one of the earliest instances of Russia’s military defeating the Nazis and badly damaging Germany’s war machine.
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