This guide explores the relationships between film images and the experience of war, showing how films influence war-time behaviour and how wars influence films. This reference combines essays on the aesthetic and historical aspect of war films with classifications and discussions of films about different wars, a filmography arranged alphabetically with annotations, a bibliography of books and articles dealing with war films, a general guide for film study, along with separate indices to film titles, film-makers, and subjects. This is both a research guide and a text for serious scholars of military history and American popular culture, and a reader for history buffs and for a general audience.