War movies are big earners. What does that say about us?
- Written by Benjamin Nickl, Lecturer in International Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, University of Sydney

War film is serious business. It has been from the beginning, when William Wellman’s Wings (1927) became the first World War I romantic drama to win an Oscar for best picture. One hundred years later, the supply of war films seems inexhaustible and their box-office attraction unbroken.
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