Post #520098 by TikiHardBop on Fri, Mar 26, 2010 10:27 AM

I'd put Breaker Morant in with (anti-)war films, along with Paths of Glory and The Naked and The Dead. The leitmotif of innocents caught in the machinations of war is strongly analogous to film noir. The important distinction is that noir usually centers around an innocent who makes a single moral lapse which leads to their downfall. War films tend to feature an innocent brought to ruin by the simple act of being in the military.