War - Topics

How did the Cold War divide the world? What caused World War One and could it have been avoided? How did ancient warfare shape civilization growth? At under an hour the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896 is the shortest war with a recorded start and end Veterans watching a war documentary about their own war — do they even want that? War documentaries made to end a war and ones made to sell it can look almost identical. What does it take for a camera operator to keep filming under fire? Archival war footage from the 1940s looks nothing like what drones capture today. War documentaries shot by embedded journalists see only one side of the front. Should war documentaries blur the faces of soldiers who admit to atrocities? How do war documentaries keep a civilian death toll from becoming just a number? A war documentary with no narration and no music often hits harder than one with a score. Filming children in a war zone — where should a documentary crew draw the line? How did wartime labor shortages change expectations for men? The ethics of showing dead bodies in a war documentary. War documentaries filmed by the soldiers themselves feel different from ones filmed by outsiders. Reporters say the war documentary they filmed changed the way they sleep. Can a war documentary stay neutral when both sides are committing crimes?