Editing War film (section)

=== American Civil War ===
{{further|List of films and television shows about the American Civil War}}
The costliest war in U.S. history in terms of American life, this war has been the subject of, or the backdrop to, numerous films, documentaries and mini-series. One of the earliest films using the Civil War as its subject was [[D.W. Griffith]]'s 1910 silent picture, ''[[The Fugitive (1910 film)|The Fugitive]]''.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/F/Fugitive1910.html | publisher=Silent Era | title=The Fugitive | access-date=23 June 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403134807/http://silentera.com/PSFL/data/F/Fugitive1910.html | archive-date=3 April 2015}}</ref> Films that have the war as its main subject, or about a certain aspect of the war, include the 1989 film ''[[Glory (1989 film)|Glory]]'', about the first formal unit of the Union Army during the American Civil War to be made up entirely of Black volunteers.<ref>{{Cite web | last=Ebert | first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert | url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/glory-1989 | publisher=RogerEbert.com | title=Glory | access-date=23 June 2015 }}</ref> Some films such as ''[[Gettysburg (1993 film)|Gettysburg]]'' focused on a single battle during the war,<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/1993/10/09/gettysburg-ted-turner-a-cast-of-thousands-and-the-ghosts-of-the-past/ | newspaper=[[The Baltimore Sun]] | title=Gettysburg: Ted Turner, a cast of thousands and the ghosts of the past | access-date=23 June 2015 | date=9 October 1993 | last=Jubera | first=Drew | archive-date=8 December 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141208214449/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-10-09/features/1993282122_1_ted-turner-gettysburg-jeff-daniels | url-status=live }}</ref> or even on a single incident, like the French short film ''[[An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (film)|La Rivière du Hibou]]'' (''An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge'')<ref name="NY Times">{{Cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/35918/An-Occurrence-at-Owl-Creek-Bridge/details |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081023123313/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/35918/An-Occurrence-at-Owl-Creek-Bridge/details |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 October 2008 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2008 |title=An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |access-date=22 May 2008 }}</ref> and [[Disney]]'s ''[[The Great Locomotive Chase]]'' (1956).<ref name="Trains_1956">Entinger, Rosemary, ”The Great Locomotive Chase”, '' [[Trains (magazine)|Trains]] '', May 1956</ref>  Others like the 1993 miniseries ''[[North and South (miniseries)|North and South]]'' spanned the entire breadth of the war. Some films deal with the human aspects of the war, such as ''[[The Red Badge of Courage (1951 film)|The Red Badge of Courage]]'' (1951),<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/v40655 | publisher=AllMovie | title=The Red Badge of Courage: Synopsis |last=Erickson | first=Hal | access-date=23 June 2015}}</ref> or ''[[Shenandoah (film)|Shenandoah]]'' (1965), on the tragedy that the war inflicted on the civilian population.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/31258%7C0/Shenandoah.html | publisher=Turner Classic Movies | title=Shenandoah: article | access-date=23 June 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623170545/http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/31258%7C0/Shenandoah.html | archive-date=23 June 2015}}</ref> [[Ken Burns]]'s ''[[The Civil War (TV series)|The Civil War]]'' is the most-watched documentary in the history of [[PBS]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.pbs.org/civilwar/filmmakers/ | publisher=[[PBS]] | title=The Filmmakers: Ken Burns | access-date=23 June 2015}}</ref>

[[File:Paul von Hindenbrug WWI poster 2.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|1918 film poster for ''Die grosse Schlacht in Frankreich'' (''The Great Battle in France''), with [[Paul von Hindenburg|Hindenburg]] in the background]]