15 Great War Movies (Nobody Ever Talks About)
6. Catch-22
Another entry and another seventies adaptation of an infamously cynical but famously effective piece of anti-war literary satire.
This time it's Joseph Heller’s iconic novel Catch 22, which got a superb film adaptation well before George Clooney’s more recent miniseries reimagined its story.
Released around the same time as Robert Altman's M*A*S*H and almost ignored as a result, this more unsparingly dark war comedy sees its hero faced with the absurdity of war and left with no choice but to laugh at its inanity. Almost as demented as Dr Strangelove, but somehow even bleaker, this razor sharp satire remains regrettably relevant to this day.