PeaceDocs | Arts | Film
Updated 11.25.09
FILM. Sergeant York, High Noon, Friendly Persuasion, Death Wish, Straw Dogs, Witness were all supposedly about peacemakers. Films like All Quiet on the Western Front, Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, How I Won the War, and The Mission all took the measure of their time and place to focus on war and peace. What does this say about our image of peacemaking? How well do these films do their job? What do they tell us about the culture that produced them? Below we offer a periodic table of peace films divided into five columns by type and eight rows by decade. Thumbnails are linked to articles. Those with captions have special articles on this site.
Personal
Social
Military
Satiric
Global
The 1930s
The 1940s
The 1950s
The 1960s
The 1970s
The 1980s
The 1990s
2000–
