Content Warning: This article discusses suicide, abuse, murder, and sexual assault. While war movies have been a staple of cinema for decades, the genre has been transformed over the years by daring directors who have sought to bring the brutal reality of armed conflict to the screen. War is, famously, Hell. However, a regular viewer of some war movies might reasonably be shocked to learn this fact. A great many war movies (some of which, surprisingly are among the genreās most critically-adored efforts), depict war as a tragic but ultimately life-affirming struggle of good against evil. However, for as long...