Filmmakers and critics have long debated whether it is possible to make an “anti-war movie.” French director Francois Truffaut argued in 1973 that simply depicting war glorifies it, so every war film is inevitably pro-war. Steven Spielberg, who directed Saving Private Ryan, claimed the opposite: “Every war movie, good or bad, is an anti-war movie.” Francis Ford Coppola sided with Truffaut and argued that Apocalypse Now, which many consider to be one of the greatest anti-war movies ever filmed, isn’t an anti-war film.