Editing War film (section)

=== Indonesian ===
[[File:Darah dan Doa P&K Apr 1953 p28 1.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Siliwangi Division]] in combat, in a scene from [[Usmar Ismail]]'s ''[[Darah dan Doa]]'', 1950]]

Many [[Indonesian cinema|Indonesian films]] deal with the occupation of the archipelago by the Japanese during the Second World War. [[Teguh Karya]]'s ''[[Doea Tanda Mata]]'' (''Mementos'', literally "Two Eye Marks", 1985) covers the limited nationalist resistance to Dutch colonial rule in the 1930s.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Doea Tanda Mata (1986) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/120596/Doea-Tanda-Mata/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403040731/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/120596/Doea-Tanda-Mata/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 April 2015 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |author=Hal Erickson |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |date=2015 |access-date=13 March 2015}}</ref>{{sfn|Heider|1991|pp=99–107}}  A third group of films such as ''[[Enam Djam di Jogja]]'' (''Six Hours in Yogyakarta'', 1951) and ''[[Serangan Fajar]]'' (''Attack at Dawn'', 1983) covers the [[Indonesian National Revolution|Indonesian war of independence]] (1945–1949).<!--actually, these two both deal with the 1 March general assault--> Two other films about the same period portray the Indonesian equivalent of the Chinese [[Long March]]: [[Usmar Ismail]]'s ''[[Darah dan Doa]]'' (''The Long March'', literally "Blood and Prayer", 1950) and ''[[Mereka Kembali]]'' (''They Return'', 1975). Each of these films interprets the past from the perspective of its own time.{{sfn|Heider|1991|pp=99–107}}

The more recent ''Merdeka'' (Freedom) trilogy (2009–2011), starting with ''[[Merah Putih (2009 film)|Merah Putih]]'' ("Red and White", the colours of the flag of the new Indonesia), revisits the campaign for independence through the lives of a diverse group of cadets who become guerillas.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Parrot |first1=John |title=Review: Red and White (Merah Putih) |url=http://thefilmreview.com/reviews/review-red-white-merah-putih.html |publisher=The Film Review |access-date=11 March 2015 |date=9 February 2011 |archive-date=23 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160623211836/http://thefilmreview.com/reviews/review-red-white-merah-putih.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Karya's ''[[November 1828]]'' (1979) looks at Indonesia's struggle for independence through [[historical drama]] about the [[Java War|Java or Diponegoro War]] (1825–1830), though the colonial enemy was the same, the [[Dutch East Indies|Dutch]]. Deanne Schultz considered it "a valuable interpretation" of [[Indonesian history]] that "embodies the best of popular Indonesian cinema". It was the first Indonesian film to become well known internationally.{{sfn|Schultz|2007|p=133}}