Top Anti-War Tv Series

Few films and tv series can capture war in its truest essence. Most end up glorifying war and provide a glamorous picture of their heroic wars. But this means falsification of facts and disrespect to the soldiers who fight these wars.

The following tv series have managed to capture the ruthlessness and unpredicatbility of war, the ill effects of war upon regular lives.

3.The Pacific

The Pacific is a mini-TV series produced by HBO. The executive producers for the series were actor Tom hanks and director Steven Spielberg. The series focuses on a platoon of United States Marines fighting on the Pacific against the Imperial Japanese forces. The series revolves around the lives of a few marines during the war. The series manages to capture the perils of soldiers in a war. Unlike many other war movies and TV series, this does justice to the human inside any soldier. We come across a marine who when posted in Australia almost doesn’t want to go back to the war and decides to start a fresh new life with his new found love with an Australian lady. The series also inspects the morals of any soldier and what it means to follow and to lead. This does not glorify war and depicts the hardships faced by the soldiers, who are often treated and mere man power, in battle. The series elaborately highlights the Pacific front of the second world war, which was way more dangerous than the war in Europe and is rarely talked about in a global platform.

2.Generation War

Most world war stories revolve around the Allied and the Soviet forces and highlights their perspectives. This series, however is from the perspectives of German nationals and German soldiers. The plot is based upon the lives of five German nationals, one of whom is a Jew, and their encounters throughout the war. Two brothers join the service becoming soldiers of the Wehrmacht loyal only to the Fuhrer, one of them becomes an actress, one becomes a nurse at a war hospital and one of them joins a Jewish resistance force. They leave berlin with the promise of returning at the same place after the war on Christmas. This is the driving force for everyone of them during the war. They undergo many changes as they were exposed to the war and human suffering. They all started with their undenying loyalty to the Fuhrer, but Hitler’s ill decisions forces them and many others to start disregarding the Third Reich by the end of the war.

1.band of Brothers

This is also a series produced by HBO and executive producers; Tom hanks and Steven Spielberg. This was a companion to the mini-series the Pacific. The series focuses n the War in Europe and mainly on the Western Front. At times it even focuses on the war at the Eastern front with the soviets. It revolves around the deadly winters the year prior to the end of the second world war. The plot follows a divison of paratroopers who get separated from each other during their landing. The series also shows the effects of war on humans. The series continues for two more episodes after the war is over. It depicts the lives of the war trodden soldiers after the war is over. One of the remarkable scenes is where the allied forces come across a concentration camp and find Jews held captive, and later on one of the soldiers, a Jew, has to tell the Jewish prisoners that the soldiers cannot feed them because the captives were starving and if provided with food would eat until the die (as suggested by medical experts.)

Any war historian can also refer to these audio-visuals to learn about the wars and most importantly, experience the life of a soldier.