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THE HURT LOCKER: Controversy Hasn't Harmed Oscar-Nominated War Movies Julie Christie in Variety, discussing The Deer Hunter (1978, right, with Robert De Niro): "The film presents the Vietcong as subhuman and sadistic, though they effectively resisted both France and the United States, which possessed enormous means of warfare." Jane Fonda, the star of the post-Vietnam-syndrome Coming Home, later took it upon herself to campaign against [...]

Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce in The Hurt Locker (top); Lew Ayres in All Quiet on the Western Front (bottom) The Hurt Locker, an Iraq War drama that follows a US military bomb disposal unit, has been harshly criticized by some Iraq War veterans. Some have called the movie inaccurate and its depiction of soldiers in a war zone laughable. Others have gone as far as [...]

If Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker wins the Best Picture Academy Award on Sunday, it'll be the eighth out-and-out war movie to win the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' top prize. Prior battle-scarred winners were Wings (1927-28), All Quiet on the Western Front (1929-30), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Patton (1970), The Deer Hunter (1978), Platoon (1986), and [...]

The Human Condition Trilogy No Greater Love (1959), The Road to Eternity (1959), A Soldier's Prayer (1961) Direction: Masaki Kobayashi Screenplay: Zenzo Matsuyama and Masaki Kobayashi; from Jumpei Gomikawa's novel Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama   Michiyo Aratama, Tatsuya Nakadai in The Human Condition   Masaki Kobayashi's The Human Condition, based on Jumpei Gomikawa's novel, is probably as well known for its scope and scale [...]