War—a tragic constant of civilization that’s been a mainstay of popular cinema for just about as long as the medium has existed. From 1930’s revolutionary All Quiet on the Western Front to Disney’s cartoon war pieces that rallied Americans against Germany, Hollywood’s older times were just as (if not more) engaged in the genre than the industry is today. Whether they be films that tackled wars as they were still going on (such as The Hurt Locker and Casablanca) or got made long after the wars they engaged with had ended (such as The Thin Red Line or Flags of Our Fathers), the power of good storytelling has kept the better ones just as relevant today as they were when they were released. Stanley Kubrick‘s controversial Paths of Glory was banned in France for depicting its WWI generals in a heavily critical light as the rest of the world praised it, and the movie is still considered an anti-war classic to this day.