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These directors, john huston john ford willie weiler frank capper and george stevens had gone to war as documentarians and came home and made different types of films. one of my favorites is a film called "battleground." it was about the battle of the bulge with van johnson, members of the squad died others deserted. it was the reality and the dialogue that changed it. "12 o'clock high." there were a lot of wonderful films that came along and that captured the awful underside of war as well. but "private ryan," which i've always thought should have won the academy award, in that opening sequen...