One of the most crucial jobs of any war-themed piece of media is to show accuracy (especially if it's about a historical conflict) and brutality. These are typical conventions of the genre, and it's basically what makes the war genre what it is. There are a lot of war movies out there that really give it a solid go, but some of them just don't do it properly. It isn't that they're not good; it's just that they miss out on some of their potential in their depictions of historical events.

This is true for TV shows, too, although every so often, one comes by that absolutely nails it. War isn't quite as common in the medium of television as it is in cinema, but still, there are some war TV shows that do a better job of things than a lot of movies do. These seven shows in particular do a much

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