And then you ve got the other kind, the War Is Hell (But Also The Setting For Some Entertainment), in which the film-makers use the background of some of the worst times in humanity s history in order to poke some fun at the whole situation.
For the sake of sticking the genre, we haven t included the likes of Star Wars, or The Lord of the Rings, because we imagine they ll end up on our Best Sci-fi/Fantasy movies lists.
Despite those omissions, there s still room for 20 movies about war on our list below; all movies and their available platforms are correct at the time of publication.