The Thin Red Line (1998) by Terrence Malick.

“It’s a really poetic film that talks about war in a way I never saw anywhere before. It explores the real violent issues of war through a stunning direction. How, suddenly, in the fields, death strikes and takes young guys and how they find however the bravery to fight, to madness, to the point of hatred of the enemy; how the main character reaches anyway a certain form of spirituality as a warrior is part of the very cruel beauty and poetry of the film. This really is an astonishing film that should have had a larger success.”

The Thin Red Line won director Terrence Malick many awards including the Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival in 1999. More details on The Thin Red Line.