Flickipedia's Veterans' Day Movies

"In crafting this section we had to walk a fine line, choosing films that celebrate the men and women who have gone to war while avoiding movies that celebrate the wars themselves. In the end, we would argue, it is the antiwar film that realistically depicts combat experience and emotionally ties us to the people caught up in it. Thoughtless flag-wavers like Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), therefore, can find their champions elsewhere." —Flickipedia (2008), by Michael Atkinson and Laurel Shifrin