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A UN fact-finding mission on Iran said on Thursday it had reasonable grounds to believe the United States was behind two military strikes on a school and sports facility in Iran in February, and that these constituted war crimes.
Tracing U2's pivot from the muscular, anthemic rock of *War* to the atmospheric, textured sound of *The Unforgettable Fire*, this piece follows the band through 1983–85, from the live document *Under a Blood Red Sky* through the Slane Castle sessions with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois that produced the new album. It roots the record's title and inspiration in a 1974 Hiroshima survivor's drawing and the resulting art exhibit U2 visited in Japan, then charts the album's commercial triumph, the "Pride" single, and Rolling Stone's crowning of U2 as "the band of the '80s."
This Collider list counts down ten war films from the past five years that the author feels have been unfairly overlooked, spanning journalism dramas, POW/detention stories, Cold War espionage, and combat pictures. Rather than a straightforward ranking of quality, it's organized around true-story credibility, name-checking specific real figures (Marie Colvin, Franz Jägerstätter, Greville Wynne, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Harry Haft, Jesse Brown) and the performances that anchor each film, from Rosamund Pike to Ben Foster to Jonathan Majors. Worth keeping as a watchlist for lesser-known awards-adjacent war dramas rather than the usual Dunkirk/Oppenheimer-tier blockbusters.