The American military forces has a long tradition of cooperation with the movie industry. Movie studios can save millions of dollars by securing use of military stock footage, equipment and manpower. But there will only be cooperation if the scripts are depicting the armed forces in a favorable way. The most realistic and successful war movies has generally been made without the military's support.

Ghostbusters II
1989
6.6/10

Joker
2019
8.1/10

Titanic
1997
7.9/10

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
2019
7.4/10

Shutter Island
2010
8.2/10

Oppenheimer
2023
8.0/10

Call Me by Your Name
2017
8.1/10

Interstellar
2014
8.5/10

The Truman Show
1998
8.1/10

Inside Out
2015
7.9/10

WALL·E
2008
8.1/10

Extraction
2020
7.3/10

American Beauty
1999
8.0/10

Forrest Gump
1994
8.5/10

The Shawshank Redemption
1994
8.7/10

Back to the Future
1985
8.3/10

Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021
8.1/10

Collateral Beauty
2016
7.2/10

Pulp Fiction
1994
8.5/10

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017
8.1/10
Bacall on Bogart
1988
6/10