It's too soon. The nightmare is ongoing. You didn't see all the good Viet Nam era films until years later.

Right now I would imagine Americans wanting movies that make them feel good about themselves and what they're doing. Escapist heroes, feel-good Moms and families, family-like groups overcoming obstacles to triumph over and over again. Anything not requiring a lot of soul-searching or recrimination. Nothing too smart or challenging.

Americans want to feel like they're the good guys again, the world leaders because they're respected, the best at everything always, not just because they've got enough nukes to glass parking lot the inner Solar System.

So you're not going to see the Iraq War equivalents of Apocalypse Now or Platoon or M*A*S*H until Americans have passed through the real war and have begun to come to terms with the fallout from it in real life. Until then, no one wants to hear that the newest war has spawned horrors unsurpassed in human history and that the reality is still worse than any story we've yet heard out loud.

ChrisPC: farbles: Until then, no one wants to hear that the newest war has spawned horrors unsurpassed in human history

Yeah, six million Jews beg to differ.

Their lands weren't sown with millions of unexploded Play-Skool looking bomblets and tons of depleted uranium dust and who knows what else in the way of chemical warfare we haven't heard about. Their water quality overall was probably better. They didn't have to live with the killing heat of the Iraqi summer, though of course European winters have their own punishments.

Not to minimize the suffering of the Holocaust in any way, but there are horrors being inflicted on the Iraqi people now that simply weren't available to the Nazis.

Look at Viet Nam and the defoliant Agent Orange. To this day this is causing horrific birth defects, a toll in blood and suffering that is numbing to consider. The Nazis, for all their trying, were amateurs at this game.

Raining death from above as is frequently done today is like generating a whole bunch of pinpoint little Coventry and Dresden firestorms, little mini "conventional" explosions that can take a convoy of trucks and turn them into an instant hell nothing can escape. That's just one of the many horrors that have been unleashed in this modern conflict only hinted at by the horrors of World War II.

The Nazis big crime against humanity was the mechanization of genocide. Modern killing is more refined, much more powerful and more horrific with each passing decade. The after-effects linger longer and bring death to the successors of the participants where before the warmakers could only kill the people they could reach, not their grand-children as well.