War movies on HBO Max and Netflix with true stories on the battlefield

The war movies based on real events They are also on streaming platforms and, in the case of HBO Max and Netflix, there are many that tell stories that happened but not only in the context of the war but also on the battlefield, where soldiers performed memorable feats of courage.

To a man

Between most famous war movies which, among other things, is inspired by real events, is ‘Until the Last Man’, a film by Mel Gibson which starred Andrew Garfield, nominated for an Oscar thanks to this performance.

In “Until the Last Man”, Andrew Garfield plays Desmond Doss, a young Christian who enlisted in the US military during World War II on one condition: he would not carry weapons and would only go with the intention of saving lives and he succeeded. . During the Battle of Okinawa, he saved seventy-five men who were to be abandoned on the battlefield.

Dunkirk

The story of Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dunkirk’ is a bit more different because it’s not about the experience of a single person on the war field, but about an entire army that almost saw his death: it’s about the film it tells. Operation Dimano on the big screen, a mission in which allied troops had to leave French territory by ocean when the Nazi army began invading the area.

Since the film was released in theaters, it has become one of the most recognized in the genre and was nominated for eight Oscars, where it won Best Sound, Best Sound Editing, and Best Editing. With Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden and Harry Styles, it was also highly regarded.

jarhead

far from true stories of the second world war”Jarhead” by Sam Mendes recounts the experience of soldier Anthony Swofford in Operation Desert Storm, which tried to liberate Kuwait from Saddam Hussein’s Israeli forces in the 1990s.

Anthony Swofford is portrayed on the screen by Jake Gyllenhall, who, in turn, shares the screen with Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard, Scott MacDonald and John Krasisnki; who become part of the army that is part of the operation and which has them with a war protocol in the Middle East.