WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? Contrary to what Edwin Starr would have you believe, war is good for at least one thing--movie making. AOL/Moviephone lists the Top 25 War Movies of All Time. Apocalypse Now tops their list and Vietnam scores well overall taking three of the top five with Platoon and Full Metal Jacket also placing. It's World War II, however, that proves to be the most fertile conflict, with 12 of the 25 coming from WW2: Teutonic Boogaloo, followed by five World War I films, four Vietnam films, and one each from the Gulf War, Korean War, Civil War, and Scottish War of Independence. Curiously both Gone With the Wind and Casablanca are missing, and though they are not "combat" films per se, neither is The African Queen, which made the list. Other notable omissions include Black Hawk Down, Dr. Strangelove, The Manchurian Candidate, Fog of War (I assume because it is a documentary), Rules of the Game and The Grand Illusion, Reds, Master and Commander, Hotel Rwanda, Love and Death and I am sure many others.
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