Abstract: New China's "war film" is closely connected with New China's founding,development and changes.Looking back on the course that China's "war film" has taken for more than half a century in the past,one can see clearly the developing and changing lines in social politics,economy and culture of China.From the myth of faith in the fifties and sixties,to the epic of war in the eighties and nineties and the legend of war in the late nineties,China's "war film" has been beating all along with the pulse of the times...