15 Great War Movies (Nobody Ever Talks About)

Based on Breakfast of Champions author Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece of the same name, the bombing campaign in Dresden is the subject 1970's Slaughterhouse 5.

Only that's not quite true, as this trippy seventies “war film meets sci fi satire” genre blender sees its protagonist Billy Pilgrim become unstuck in time and travel freely between periods of his lifetime. As a result, the viewer spends as much time deliberating over his chaotic love life and his interactions with a race of aliens building a human zoo as they do dwelling on the wartime atrocities he bore witness to.

Surprisingly, this approach makes the film's satirical wit all the more effective, as conflict itself takes a backseat in this war film wherein bombs are merely a tragic fact of human existence. So it goes.