War in popular culture
The following is a list of pop culture references to war.
Literature
Books
American Revolutionary War
- Nonfiction
- Fiction
American Civil War
- Fiction
- Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage.
- Frazier, Charles. Cold Mountain.
- Hicks, Robert. The Widow of the South.
- Hunt, Irene. Across Five Aprils.
- Mitchell, Margaret. Gone With the Wind.
- Shaara, Jeffrey. Gods and Generals.
- Shaara, Michael. The Killer Angels.
World War I
- Nonfiction
- Fiction
Spanish Civil War
- Nonfiction
- Alexander, Bill. British Volunteers For Liberty.
- Baxell, Richard. British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, Routledge, 2004
- Beevor, Antony . The Battle for Spain, 2006, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006. ISBN 978-0-297-84832-5
- Fisher, Harry. Comrades: Tales of a Brigadista in the Spanish Civil War University of Nebraska Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8032-6899-8
- Grey, Daniel. Homage to Caledonia
- Lee, Laurie. A Moment of War, ISBN 978-0-14-015622-5
- Marty, André. Historia Política y Militar de las Brigadas Internacionales
- Monks, Joe. With the Reds in Andalusia
- O'Riordan, Michael. Connolly Column, Dublin, New Books, 1979
- Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia.
- Rust, Bill. Britons in Spain.
- Ryan, Frank, editor. Book of the 15th Brigade, Madrid, Commissariat of War, 1938.
- Thomas, Hugh. The Spanish Civil War, 4th Rev Ed, 2003. ISBN 978-0-14-101161-5
- Fiction
- Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls.
- Malraux, Andre. Man's Hope.
- Mitford, Nancy. The Pursuit of Love.
- Regler, Gustav. The Great Crusade.
- Sansom, C. J. Winter in Madrid.
- Weiss, Peter. The Aesthetics of Resistance.
World War II
- Nonfiction
- Fiction
Vietnam War
- Fiction
- Greene, Graham. The Quiet American.
- Marlantes, Karl. Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War.
- Ninh, Bảo. The Sorrow of War.
- O'Brien, Tim. Going After Cacciato.
- O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried.
- Wright, Stephen. Meditations in Green.
- Non-Fiction
- Caputo, Philip. A Rumor of War.
- Herr, Michael. Dispatches.
- Terry, Wallace. Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War.
Poetry
- Binyon, Laurence. "Ode of Remembrance."
- Owen, Wilfred, "Dulce et Decorum est","Anthem for Doomed Youth"
- Sassoon, Siegfried, "The General","Base Details"
- Whitehouse, John. "Ode to War."
Movies
Persian Gulf Wars
Vietnam War
North American wars
- Revolutionary War
- Civil War
- Confederate
- Union
Sierra Leone Civil War
Spanish Civil War
- For Whom the Bell Tolls - 1943 film by Ernest Hemingway about a young American who fights in the International Brigades.
- Land and Freedom, by Ken Loach. Although the subject of the film is not the International Brigades, it portrays international volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. The actual International Brigades are featured.
- Memories of a Future - 2007 film by Margaret Dickinson and Pepe Petos. This documentary follows a group of volunteers of the International Brigades, their friends and family travelling back to Figueres Spain in 2006. The film interrogates the relevance of the veteran's deed and contextualises it in current social and political climate.
- The plot of Pan's Labyrinth by Mexican film-maker Guillermo del Toro takes place five years after the war.
- Sierra de Teruel by André Malraux, features the International bomber squadron in margin of the Brigades
- To My Son In Spain: Finnish Canadians in the Spanish Civil War, by Dave Clement, Kelly Saxberg, Saku Pinta, Sonya Lacroix and Michelle Derosier (Thunderstone Pictures). This documentary features the story of Jules Paivio, one of the last living Canadian volunteers of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion of the International Brigades.
World War I
World War II
- European theatre
- A Bridge Too Far
- Atonement
- Battleground
- The Big Red One
- Come and See
- Cross of Iron
- Defiance
- The Devil's Brigade
- Die Brücke
- The Diary of Anne Frank
- The Dirty Dozen
- Downfall
- Enemy At The Gates
- Inglourious Basterds
- The Longest Day
- Miracle at St. Anna
- Patton
- The Pianist
- Saving Private Ryan
- Schindler's List
- Valkyrie
- Easter theatre
- Australia
- Beach Red
- The Burmese Harp
- Cry of Battle
- Empire of the Sun
- Flags of Our Fathers
- Fires on the Plain
- From Here to Eternity
- The Great Raid
- Guadalcanal Diary
- Hell to Eternity
- Letters From Iwo Jima
- Merrill's Marauders
- Pearl Harbor
- Sands of Iwo Jima
- The Thin Red Line
- Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
- Tora! Tora! Tora!
- Windtalkers
- Bridge over the River Kwai
Music
- The Hope, depicting the battle of Copenhagen
Theatre
- Les Misérables
- Krútňava (Whirlpool), Slovak
- Miss Saigon
- The Good Soldier Švejk, Czech
See also
- World War III in popular culture
- Desert Storm trading cards
- Cultural treatments of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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