20 War Movies EVERY Film Fan Should Have Seen

20. The Deer Hunter

Heaven's Gate director Michael Cimino broke the mould with his 1978 classic The Deer Hunter.

A war film which spends much of its runtime acting as a dramedy about a group of old friends attending the wedding of one of their number, the film lulls the viewer into a sense of security and leads them to care about these characters and the minutiae of their everyday lives.

Then the war changes everything.

Depicting the horrors war inflicts on unsuspecting everyday men drafted into a conflict which isn't theirs to fight, this brutal ordeal of a film will leave you shook by its tragic close, a sobering reminder that many veterans carry the horrors of home with them.