War movies are a genre depicting real-life wars from the perspective of those who fought in it. The very first Academy Award winner for Best Picture was a World War I movie titled Wings (1927).
See Military and Warfare Films for an index of War Movies.
Common War Movie Settings:
- The American Civil War
- World War I
- World War II
- The Korean War
- The Vietnam War
- The Gulf War
- The War on Terror note