Top movies that show how aweful war is...?

Question

1. Saving Private Ryan
2. Platoon
3. Johnny and his Gun (terrifying story of world war one person who doesn't have legs, arms, can't see, hear, on the iron lung and wishes for death, look up metallicas One music video to see clips)

i forgot about Pan's Labbrynth, that had some pretty good Spanish-American war scenes

Answer 1

Try watcing "The Killing Fields" and I think you will find it a little worse.

Answer 2

Actually, it's "Johnny Got His Gun".

Other war~actually anti-war~films are:
Die Brucke aka The Bridge (German)
All Quiet on the Western Front (original b&w)
Gallipoli
Casualties of War
Pan's Labyrinth
Hornet's Nest~Most people wouldn't even consider this, but it's an action-adventure film that does show the toll the war took on children. They witness the execution of the people of their village then attempt to become Resistance fighters.
Forbidden Games (French)
Breaker Morant

I see others going with lengthier lists. I especially noted the mention of "The Day After", which is a brilliant, bleak, horrifying TV miniseries that should be shown more often~full length.

Answer 3

The futility of war:
Das Boot (1981).
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

The insanity of war:
Catch-22 (1970)
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Love the Bomb (1964)

A sea of blood-soaked warriors amidst the pageantry of battle: Kagemusha (1980)

The irrevocability of engaging in nuclear war:
The Day After (1983) (TV)

Answer 4

Fahrenheit 9/11

Answer 5

Don't you mean Johnny Got His Gun...

Add to the list:
All Quiet on the Western Front
Das Boot

Answer 6

Try these:

Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
Oh! What a Lovely War
Paths of Glory.

Answer 7

Jarhead and Letters from lwo Jima

Answer 8

"The Bridge on the River Kwai"
"Deer Hunter"