The following is a list of pop culture references to war.

Entertainment

Movies

Persian Gulf Wars

• The Hurt Locker
• Jarhead
• Three Kings

Vietnam War

• Apocalypse Now
• Full Metal Jacket
• Operation Dumbo Drop
• Platoon
• The Deer Hunter

American Civil War

• Gods and Generals
  • Gettysburg

Confederate

• Cold Mountain

Yankee

• Glory

Sierra Leone Civil War

• Blood Diamonds

Spanish Civil War

• Land and Freedom, by Ken Loach. Although the subject of the film is not the International Brigades, it portrays international volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. The actual International Brigades are featured.
• Sierra de Teruel by André Malraux, features the International bomber squadron in margin of the Brigades
• For Whom the Bell Tolls - 1943 film by Ernest Hemingway about a young American who fights in the International Brigades.
• Memories of a Future - 2007 film by Margaret Dickinson and Pepe Petos. This documentary follows a group of volunteers of the International Brigades, their friends and family travelling back to Figueres Spain in 2006. The film interrogates the relevance of the veteran's deed and contextualises it in current social and political climate.
• To My Son In Spain: Finnish Canadians in the Spanish Civil War, by Dave Clement, Kelly Saxberg, Saku Pinta, Sonya Lacroix and Michelle Derosier (Thunderstone Pictures). This documentary features the story of Jules Paivio, one of the last living Canadian volunteers of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion of the International Brigades.
• The plot of Pan's Labyrinth by Mexican film-maker Guillermo del Toro takes place five years after the war.

World War II

Atlantic front

• Enemy At The Gates
• Saving Private Ryan
• Patton
• The Pianist
• Inglorious Basterds
• Miracle at St. Anna
• Valkyrie
• Defiance
• Atonement
• Flags of Our Fathers
• Schindler's List

Pacific front

• The Thin Red Line
• Letters From Iwo Jima
• Australia
• Pearl Harbor

Indo-Pakistani War of 1971

• Border

Theatre

• Les Misérables
• Miss Saigon

Literature

Books

American Revolutionary War

Nonfiction

• McCullough, David. 1776.

French Revolution

Fiction

• Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables.

American Civil War

Fiction

• Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage.
• Frazier, Charles. Cold Mountain.
• Hicks, Robert. The Widow of the South.
• Hunt, Irene. Across Five Aprils.
• Mitchell, Margaret. Gone With the Wind.
• Shaara, Jeffrey. Gods and Generals.
• Shaara, Michael. The Killer Angels.

World War I

Fiction

• Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms.
• Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front.

Spanish Civil War

Nonfiction

• Alexander, Bill. British Volunteers For Liberty.
• Baxell, Richard. British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, Routledge, 2004
• Beevor, Antony . The Battle for Spain, 2006, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006. ISBN 978-0297848325
• Fisher, Harry. Comrades: Tales of a Brigadista in the Spanish Civil War University of Nebraska Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8032-6899-8
• Grey, Daniel. Homage to Caledonia
• Lee, Laurie. A Moment of War, ISBN 978-0140156225
• Marty, André. Historia Política y Militar de las Brigadas Internacionales
• Monks, Joe. With the Reds in Andalusia
• O'Riordan, Michael. Connolly Column, Dublin, New Books, 1979
• Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia.
• Rust, Bill. Britons in Spain.
• Ryan, Frank, editor. Book of the 15th Brigade, Madrid, Commissariat of War, 1938.
• Thomas, Hugh. The Spanish Civil War, 4th Rev Ed, 2003. ISBN 978-0141011615

Fiction

• Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls.
• Mitford, Nancy. The Pursuit of Love.
• Sansom, C. J. Winter in Madrid.
• Weiss, Peter. The Aesthetics of Resistance.

World War II

Nonfiction

• Frank, Anne. The Diary of a Young Girl.
• Wiesel, Elie. Night.

Fiction

• Heller, Joseph. Catch-22.
• Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars.
• Vonnegut, Kurt. Mother Night.
• Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five.
• Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief.

Vietnam War

Fiction

• O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried.

Poetry

• Binyon, Laurence. "Ode of Remembrance."
• Whitehouse, John. "Ode to War."