War and cinema

The representations of war in the cinema are various. Movie makers depict war in many way and there exist a lot of ways to describe it: exaltation (bring to light the great historic battle, war hero...), denunciation (antimilitarism movie or against war) or just an violent adventure.

The two World Wars and the Vietnam war have greatly inspired film director but what about movie on early modern war?

The aim of this blog is to focus on the vision of cinema on the great battle of the modern period and especially a conflict which has left its mark on the European History: the Thirty Years War.

Through The Last Valley directed by James Clavell in 1970 with Michael Caine, we will show how the cinema industry deal with this war.