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Why do we watch war films?

Laura Clouting, curator of the exhibition Real to Reel: A Century of War Movies, discusses how cinema has reflected our changing attitudes towards war.

A new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London goes behind the scenes of some of the most famous films in the genre.

Justin Webb spoke to Laura Clouting, curator of the exhibition Real to Reel: A Century of War Movies.

(Image: Richard Todd as Guy Gibson in the film The Dam Busters. Credit: Getty Images)

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