War movies come in various shapes and sizes, but the genre's masterpieces from the last century are so much more than mere cinematic spectacle. Going back all the way to the Silent Era, war films were typically the largest and most expensive epics of their day. Global conflicts like the World Wars influenced Hollywood, and inspired tons of movies. Though many war films from Hollywood's Golden Age glorified combat and essentially acted as propaganda, they were nevertheless quite entertaining. However, some filmmakers used the war genre as a platform to tell much richer stories, ones that examined the destructive nature...