Some war movies that teach people something

Apocalypse Now

Release Date 1979

Rating : 8.4 Production Companies: Zoetrope Studios, United Artists Director: Francis Ford Coppola, Tony Brandt, Larry J. Franco Stars: Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall

Summary: At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

The Longest Day

Release Date 1962

Rating : 7.7 Production Companies: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Darryl F. Zanuck Productions Director: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki Stars: Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Robert Mitchum

Summary: The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"

Gone with the Wind

Release Date 1939

Rating : 8.2 Production Companies: Selznick International Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Director: George Cukor, Sam Wood, George Cukor Stars: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland

Summary: The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

Hacksaw Ridge

Release Date 2016

Rating : 8.1 Production Companies: Icon Productions, Permut Presentations Director: P.J. Voeten, Mic Rodgers, Jo Weeks Stars: Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Vince Vaughn

Summary: WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Release Date 2016

Rating : 6.2 Production Companies: Sony Pictures, TriStar Pictures Director: Ang Lee, Eric Richard Lasko, Richard Styles Stars: Joe Alwyn, Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker

Summary: 19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad – contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.

Black Hawk Down

Release Date 2001

Rating : 7.7 Production Companies: Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Revolution Studios Director: Ridley Scott, Alexander Witt, Basil Grillo Stars: Josh Hartnett, Eric Bana, Ewan McGregor

Summary: When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.

Braveheart

Release Date 1995

Rating : 8.3 Production Companies: Icon Entertainment International, The Ladd Company Director: Mel Gibson, Matt Earl Beesley, David Tomblin Stars: Mel Gibson, Catherine McCormack, Sophie Marceau

Summary: Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.

Schindler's List

Release Date 1993

Rating : 9 Production Companies: Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment Director: Steven Spielberg, Nada Pinter Stars: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes

Summary: The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

Saving Private Ryan

Release Date 1998

Rating : 8.6 Production Companies: Paramount, DreamWorks SKG Director: Ana Maria Quintana, Sergio Mimica-Gezzan, Adam Goodman Stars: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns

Summary: As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.