Movies that are set in historical times
War movies have a special place in my heart. I feel War movies have an air of Intensity, Destruction, Anguish and Hope. I also take an underlying comfort that probably we are never going to face such as I watch those stories unravel. Although what we are seeing in the movies is just the distant past, it is incredibly hard to digest the fact that humanity has gone through all of those struggles. I initially watched war movies anticipating the action sequences and the missile strikes, they all seemed fancy to me and I used to get excited about the ticking bombs and the destruction involved. It took years for me to subside that excitement and see those stories as the real struggle of the people who went through the darker side of history. Much of that realization came only after watching the distressing visuals in the day to day news when somewhere in the world the chaos happens and watching how people's lives are shattered in a fraction of seconds in real-time. I grew up watching the