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About this video:
An in-depth examination of the potential for and meaning of anti-war films.

Chapter list:
0:00 Introduction: A Cinema of (Anti-)War
6:30 Part 1: Cultures of Heroism
14:01 Part 2: The Nature of Evil
21:28 Part 3: Glorious Suffering
27:21 Part 4: Holy Wars
33:44 Part 5: Sacrificial Lambs
40:21 Part 6: Hero Worship
45:13 Part 7: Comfortable Icons
52:38 Conclusion: A True Christ

Sources:
Ernest Becker – Escape From Evil: https://amzn.to/3lvYzs5
Ernest Becker – The Denial of Death: https://amzn.to/2G3CTmP
Hannah Arendt – Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil: https://amzn.to/32IRYC7
Tom Brook (BBC) – Is There Any Such Thing as an Anti-War Film? https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/2...
Agnieszka Monnet – Is There Such a Thing as an Antiwar Film? https://www.academia.edu/28595089/Is_...
David Walsh – Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan: Small Truths at the Expense of Big Ones: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1998...

Like Stories of Old - Complete Reading List: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/readi...

Media included:
13 Hours (2016)
1917 (2019)
A Hidden Life (2019)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
American Sniper (2014)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Band of Brothers (2001)
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Casualties of War (1989)
Come and See (1985)
Coming Home (1978)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Dunkirk (2017)
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Fury (2014)
Green Zone (2010)
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
Jarhead (2005)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Land of Mine (2015)
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)
Lone Survivor (2013)
Man Down (2015)
Midway (2019)
Operation Finale (2018)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Patton (1970)
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Platoon (1986)
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Schindler's List (1993)
Stalingrad (1993)
Thank You For Your Service (2017)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959)
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
The Pacific (2010)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
We Were Soldiers (2002)
Zero Dark Thirty (2013)

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Music:
Chris Coleman – Reckoning
Max ll – Golestan
Dexter Britain – Elegy
Ryan Taubert – Killing The Rock
Jordan Critz – A Ripple In Time
Dexter Britain – The Grief
Max II – Closure
Hammock – Now And Not Yet

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Additional Music:
Daniel Joseph White – Choice
Michael Vignola – To The Strong
CK Martin – Rising Storm
Daniel Joseph White – Simulacrum
Daniel Joseph White – Ardency
Kyle Preston – Everyone Leaves