Topics in films through the ages

Topics through the ages

As a task we were given two decades in which we had to research topics that were common to cover in film, the two decades we were given were the 40's and the 50's, the 40's was my main concentration because of the second world war, this stemmed a lot of propaganda films such as, Burma victory and The call for arms, there were different forms of propaganda, for example there was supportive films that gave people hope and motivation, hateful films, using Britain as an example, making films about how evil germans was occurred a lot during the early 40's, and then after the war had finished a lot of documentaries about Britain winning the war and victory.

Another subject within the 40's that we covered was the Atom bomb, USA used the first ever nuclear bomb against japan in the late 40's, a film called above and beyond was made about this.

The final subject we covered for the 40's was the masses, this was peoples constant fear of their country being invaded during the war, there were several films about this, one of the popular invasions was D-Day, this was the final battle in which Britain won the war, an example of a film is The longest day.

For the 1950's there was less content for us to use as not as many significant events occurred during the 1950's, one event that happened was the start of the korean war, which is still a pretty big subject but not as big as the second world war, there were several films made about the korean war, these included, jet attack and target zero. 

There was also an attempted assassination of the US president harry truman, but i couldn't find a strong enough source confirming any definite releases of films/documentaries covering this subject.

For a modern remake of a world war 2 film several things would have to be changed, firstly, the whole war idea that the germans are evil would not be the main concentration of the film, in modern world war 2 films the war itself is used as a background story and the main concentration is on a subject that occurred within the war, for example, secret weapons/vehicles built on either side or the story of one man or 'team', an example of this is saving private Ryan, this film didn't concentrate on the war as its main story line but merely as a background plot. 

The reason war films don't concentrate on the rivalry of different countries is because people of modern time understand that no one was in the right and both sides were in the wrong somehow. In modern time people are more interested in hidden secrets of the war that have only been revealed, the idea of mystery is what the modern era love.