By Mark HadleyMonday 8 Mar 2010MoviesReading Time: 1 minute

From early classics like All Quiet On The Western Front and The Great Escape, to modern-day epics like Saving Private Ryan, films about war have never failed to draw a crowd.

Recently, the genre’s taken a new turn with a growing number of war movies dealing with conflict in the Middle East: there’s been The Kingdom (2007), Stop-Loss (2008), and The Messenger (2009), and now, The Hurt Locker.

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