Best Anti-war Movies of the 1980s

DIRECTED_BY: Richard Rush
WRITTEN_BY: Paul Brodeur,Lawrence B. Marcus,Richard Rush
STARRING: Peter O'Toole,Steve Railsback,Barbara Hershey,Phil Bruns,Alex Rocco,John Garwood,Adam Roarke,Sharon Farrell
IMDB_ID: tt0081568
RATING: R (USA)
GENRE: Black comedy,Thriller,Anti-war film,Action/Adventure,Action Film,Comedy Thriller,Comedy-drama,Drama,Comedy
SUBJECTS: Wing walking,World War I,Stunt Performer,Filmmaking
INITIAL_RELEASE_DATE: 1980-06-27
COUNTRY: United States of America
LANGUAGE: English Language

DIRECTED_BY: Brian De Palma
WRITTEN_BY: David Rabe,Daniel Lang
STARRING: Michael J. Fox,Sean Penn,Erik King,John C. Reilly,John Leguizamo,Ving Rhames,Don Harvey,Dale Dye,Jack Gwaltney,Thuy Thu Le
IMDB_ID: tt0097027
RATING: R (USA)
GENRE: War film,Period piece,Anti-war film,Drama
SUBJECTS: Vietnam War,Cold War,Tragedy
INITIAL_RELEASE_DATE: 1989-08-18
COUNTRY: United States of America
LANGUAGE: English Language

DIRECTED_BY: John Irvin
WRITTEN_BY: James Carabatsos
STARRING: Dylan McDermott,Steven Weber,Courtney B. Vance,Michael Boatman,Don Cheadle,Michael Dolan,Harry O'Reilly,Michael A. Nickles,Tommy Swerdlow,Don James
IMDB_ID: tt0093137
RATING: R (USA)
GENRE: Indie film,Action Film,War film,Action/Adventure,Anti-war film,Combat Films,Drama
SUBJECTS: Vietnam War
INITIAL_RELEASE_DATE: 1987-08-28
COUNTRY: United States of America
LANGUAGE: English Language

DIRECTED_BY: Ernest Thompson
WRITTEN_BY: Ernest Thompson
STARRING: Robert Downey Jr.,Kiefer Sutherland,Winona Ryder,Bruce Dern,Mariette Hartley,Joanna Cassidy
IMDB_ID: tt0094594
RATING: R (USA)
GENRE: Coming of age,Indie film,Period piece,Political drama,Anti-war film,Drama
SUBJECTS: Vietnam War
INITIAL_RELEASE_DATE: 1988-11-18
COUNTRY: United States of America
LANGUAGE: English Language

DIRECTED_BY: Francis Ford Coppola
WRITTEN_BY: Ronald Bass
STARRING: James Earl Jones,James Caan,Dean Stockwell,Mary Stuart Masterson,Elias Koteas,D. B. Sweeney,Casey Siemaszko,Lonette McKee,Anjelica Huston,Bill Graham
IMDB_ID: tt0093073
RATING: R (USA)
GENRE: War film,Film adaptation,Anti-war film,Drama
SUBJECTS: Vietnam War
INITIAL_RELEASE_DATE: 1987-05-08
COUNTRY: United States of America
LANGUAGE: English Language

DIRECTED_BY: Oliver Stone
WRITTEN_BY: Oliver Stone,Ron Kovic
STARRING: Jerry Levine,Raymond J. Barry,Frank Whaley,Holly Marie Combs,Kyra Sedgwick,Tom Cruise,Tom Berenger,Lili Taylor,Annie McEnroe,Anne Bobby
IMDB_ID: tt0096969
RATING: R (USA)
GENRE: Anti-war film,Biographical film,War film,Period piece,Political drama,Film adaptation,Drama
SUBJECTS: Vietnam War,Posttraumatic stress disorder,Disability,Opposition to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War,Friendly fire,Paraplegia
INITIAL_RELEASE_DATE: 1989
COUNTRY: United States of America
LANGUAGE: English Language

DIRECTED_BY: Derek Jarman
STARRING: Nathaniel Parker,Laurence Olivier,Tilda Swinton,Patricia Hayes,Rohan McCullough,Nigel Terry,Owen Teale,Sean Bean,Wilfred Owen
IMDB_ID: tt0096416
GENRE: War film,Silent film,Indie film,Experimental film,Avant-garde,Anti-war film,Essay Film,Drama
INITIAL_RELEASE_DATE: 1989-01-06
COUNTRY: United Kingdom,England
LANGUAGE: English Language

DIRECTED_BY: Robin Phillips
WRITTEN_BY: Timothy Findley
STARRING: Richard Austin,Rodger Barton,Paul Batten,Rod Beattie,Kirsten Bishop,Tom Bishop,Richard Blackburn,Domini Blythe,Fred Booker,Dwayne Brenna
IMDB_ID: tt0084889
GENRE: War film,Period piece,Anti-war,Anti-war film,Family Drama,Drama
SUBJECTS: World War I
INITIAL_RELEASE_DATE: 1983-03-20
COUNTRY: Canada,West Germany
LANGUAGE: English Language