10 Most Realistic & Accurate Scenes In War Movies

From the evacuation in Dunkirk to the burning of the church in Come and See, some of the best scenes from war movies have a harrowing sense of realism. The inherent spectacle of cinema means that it’s difficult to make a war film that accurately depicts the horrors of warfare without turning the firefights and foot chases into action-packed Hollywood entertainment. But the very best filmmakers, from Stanley Kubrick to Steven Spielberg to Ridley Scott, have managed to present scenes of war in a way that is both cinematically engaging and hauntingly realistic.