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{{quote|'''British Soldier:''' Taste my sword, French person!
'''French Soldier:''' No! Wait! We are allies! This is World War I!
'''British Soldier:''' I'm terribly sorry! I thought it was the Hundred Years War! Does this mean I can kill Italians?
'''French Soldier:''' (consulting manual) No, I'm afraid not. Not until World War II.
|'''[[Dave Barry]]''', "A Rash Proposal"}}
The fun part? You get to pick your war. Either of the World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War I, Gulf War II, ... [[Military and Warfare Tropes|the list is pretty long]]. The [[Cold War]] and the Drug War are out of bounds, though.
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While we're on the subject, please note that you may rely on the audience already knowing that [[War Is Hell]]. Hopefully, you will have something additional to say.
Of note in this topic is ''[[Gomer Pyle,
The roles of the air forces and navies were rarely covered, owing to the fact that TV budgets don't cover Spitfire hire. However, during the 40's hundreds of Hollywood [[Movies]] were made about the then-ongoing Second World War. The ready availability of props and mock-ups, as well as real [[Stock Footage]], made shows about pilots and sailors possible then. In several series, like ''[[Black Sheep Squadron]]'' and ''[[McHales Navy|McHale's Navy]]'', most of the action focused on antics carried out on base, to cut down on the necessary combat footage.
Note: the [[Only Fools and Horses|correct pronunciation]] is "[[British Accents|JOO-rin-na WAW-ah]]".
Contrast [[War Was Beginning]].
{{examples
== [[Real Life]] Wars ==
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** ''[[Rome]]''
* Norman Conquest
** ''[[
* The Crusades
** ''[[Assassin's Creed]]''
** ''[[
** ''[[Kingdom of Heaven]]''
** ''[[Robin Hood]]''
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** ''[[Pillars Of The Earth]]''
* Wars of the Roses
** ''[[
* Sengoku Jidai
** Too many [[Jidai Geki]] to count
* The Ottoman-Safavid Wars
** Referenced several times in ''[[
* [[English Civil War]]
** ''[[
* Glorious Revolution
** ''[[
* Frontier "Indian Wars" (so-called)
** ''[[F Troop]]''
* French Revolution
** ''[[
* [[
** ''[[
** ''[[A Very Long Engagement]]'' - Features a wide panorama of warfare of the age (though all taking place on the Somme) and the post-war period.
** ''[[
** ''[[
** ''Galipolli''
** ''[[Grand Illusion]]''- French 1938 film about French officers in a German prison camp
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** ''[[Paths of Glory]]''
** ''Sergeant York''
** ''[[
* Irish War of Independence
** ''[[Michael Collins]]''
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* [[World War II]]
** ''[[A Bridge Too Far]]'' - Operation Market-Garden, and its ultimate failure, the Allied attempt to break through German lines and seize several bridges in the occupied Netherlands.
** ''[['Allo 'Allo
** ''[[Band of Brothers]]'' - Follows Easy Company (of 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division) from training through the end of the war, including D-Day, Market Garden, and Bastogne.
** ''The Battle of Britain'' - where the movie budget did cover Spitfire hire, and Hurricane hire, and Me109 hire and He111 hire from the Spanish Airforce.
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** ''[[Das Boot]]''
** ''[[Call of Duty]]'' - Discounting the ''[[Modern Warfare]]'' spinoff series and ''Black Ops''.
** ''[[Captain America:
** ''Combat''
** ''[[Company of Heroes]]''
** ''[[
** ''[[The
** ''[[
** ''[[The Dirty Dozen]]''
** ''[[
** ''The Eagle Has Landed''
** ''[[The English Patient]]''
** ''[[Flags of
** ''[[The Great Escape]]'' - Realistic Prison Camp
** ''The Great Raid''
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*** ''[[Force 10 From Navarone]]''
** ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'' - Comic Prison Camp
** ''[[It
** ''[[Jackboots
** ''Jeux interdits'' (English title: ''Forbidden Games'')
** ''[[
** ''[[Letters From Iwo Jima]]''
** ''[[The Longest Day]]'' - D-Day
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** ''Operation Peticoat''
** ''Pearl Harbor''
** ''[[
** ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]''
** ''[[Secret Army]]''
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** ''[[The Thin Red Line]]''
** ''To Hell and Back''
** ''[[Tora! Tora! Tora!]]'' - Named for the code words used by the Japanese to signal that the Pearl Harbor attack had been successful.
** ''[[
** ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]'', though some elements also let it fit as [[World War
** ''[[Valkyrie (
** Various [[Wartime Cartoon
** ''[[
* First Indochina War
** ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104105/ Diên Biên Phú]''
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* [[Korean War]]
** ''The Manchurian Candidate'' (original version).
** ''[[
** ''Pork Chop Hill''
* Algerian War of Independence
** ''[[The Battle of Algiers]]''
* [[Vietnam War]]
** ''[[
** ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''
** [[
** ''Bat 21''
** ''[[Battlefield Vietnam]]''
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** ''The Deer Hunter''
** ''First Blood''
** ''[[Flight of the Intruder (
** ''Forrest Gump''
** ''Full Metal Jacket''
** ''[[Gomer Pyle,
** ''[[The Green Berets]]''
** ''Missing in Action''
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** ''Courage Under Fire''
** ''[[Jarhead]]''
** ''[[The Manchurian Candidate (novel)|The Manchurian Candidate]]'' (remake)
** ''[[Three Kings]]''
* [[The War
** ''[[Iron Man (
* [[The War
** ''[[Generation Kill]]''
** ''[[Green Zone]]''
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* [[Alien Invasion]]
** ''[[Battlefield Earth]]''
** ''[[
** ''[[
** ''[[Halo]]''
** ''[[Independence Day]]''
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* [[Bug War]]
** ''[[Blue Gender]]''
** ''[[
** ''Ender's Game'' (First book and ''Ender's Shadow'')
** ''[[Macross Frontier]]''
** ''Outer Limits'' (new version, several episodes)
** ''[[Space: Above and Beyond]]''
** ''[[
** ''[[Starship Troopers (
** ''[[Warhammer
** ''[[Wing Commander (
* [[Demonic Invaders]]
** ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]''
** ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''
** ''[[Warhammer
* Interstellar Civil War
** ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]''
** ''[[Star Wars]]''
** ''[[Transformers]]''
** ''[[Warhammer
** [[Wing Commander (
* [[The Magic Versus Technology War]]
** ''[[
** ''[[The Longest Journey]]''
** ''[[Princess Mononoke]]''
** ''[[Thundercats 2011
** ''[[Warhammer
** ''[[Wizards]]''
** ''[[
* [[Robot War]]
** ''[[
** ''[[
** ''[[Mass Effect]]''
** ''[[The Matrix]]''
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** ''[[Terminator]]''
** ''[[Transformers]]'' (Not a war with robots, but a war ''between'' robots, although humans sometimes get involved)
** ''[[Warhammer
* [[World War III]]
** ''[[
** ''Amerika''
** ''[[Damnation Alley]]''
** ''[[The Day After]]''
** ''[[
** ''[[Modern Warfare]] 2''
** ''Red Dawn''
** ''[[Red Storm Rising]]''
** ''[[
** ''[[Team Yankee]]''
** ''[[
** ''[[Threads]]''
** ''[[World in Conflict]]''
* Various others
** ''[[
*** The Shadow War
*** The Earth Alliance Civil War
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*** The Drakh War
*** The Telepath War
** ''[[
*** '''The''' war is typically The One Year War, during which a [[Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in
*** [[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
*** [[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
*** [[Chars Counterattack|The Second Neo-Zeon War]]
*** [[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam
** [[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]
*** In Ishval...
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