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Top Five War Movies and ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’

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The War on Terror - The Best War Movie Ever Made

This is one of the more harrowing anti-war movies ever made. It's revolutionary in terms of how it was shot and the sort of reverse tracking shots that happened throughout the trenches. Stanley Cooper actually made full metal jacket and he made passive glory, passive glory. This is the movie that gets a Spartacus again picked by Kirk Douglas and then, you know, leads to 40 years of incredible filmmaking. Um, there are some intense battle sequences, but that's not the totality of the movie.

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