As technology advances and new style of filming begins to emerge, the features of war and how they’re portrayed in film change as well. In Sands of Iwo Jima, it follows a squad of Marines through the battles of Tarawa and Iwo Jima through different vantages, as well as, weaving in real battle footage within the film to realistically portray how the battle looked. Taking it a step further, The Longest Day looks at the events of D-Day through the eyes of American infantry storming the beach, 101st and 82nd Airborne, French resistance, German troops, and British commandos. Although the military in the pacific used colored film, the ones in Europe used black and white, so Zanuck used black and white to film because he felt color would distract
