# List of anti-war songs

Some anti-war songs lament aspects of wars, while others patronize war. Most promote peace in some form, while others sing out against specific armed conflicts. Still others depict the physical and psychological destruction that warfare causes to soldiers, innocent civilians, and humanity as a whole. Many of these songs are considered protest songs, and some have been embraced by war-weary people, various peace movements, and peace activists.

## General pacifist and anti-war songs

| Year | Song | Artist |
| 1966 | "7 O'Clock News/Silent Night" | Simon & Garfunkel |
| 2024 | "Anti War Song" | Kid97 |
| 1980 | "Army Dreamers" | Kate Bush |
| 2023 | "Asteria" | Xandria |
| 1901 | "The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated" | Mark Twain |
| 1974 | "Billy, Don't Be a Hero" | Paper Lace, Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods |
| 1963 | "Blowin' in the Wind" | Bob Dylan |
| 1980 | "Bombs Away" | The Police |
| 1984 | "Born in the U.S.A." | Bruce Springsteen |
| 1971 | "Bring the Boys Home" | Freda Payne |
| 2019 | "British Bombs" | Declan McKenna |
| 1996 | "Bulls on Parade" | Rage Against the Machine |
| 1968 | "Butcher's Tale" | The Zombies |
| 1964 | "Chimes of Freedom" | Bob Dylan |
| 2005 | "M.I.A." | Avenged Sevenfold |
| 1990 | "Civil War" | Guns N' Roses |
| 1959 | "La Colombe" | Jacques Brel (France) |
| 1963 | "Come Away Melinda" | Harry Belafonte |
| 1969 | "Cranes" (Журавли́) | Rasul Gamzatov / Yan Frenkel / Mark Bernes |
| 1966 | "The Cruel War" | Peter, Paul and Mary |
| 2011 | "The Cruel Wars" | The Dreadnoughts |
| 1971 | "El Derecho De Vivir En Paz" (The Right to Live in Peace) | Víctor Jara |
| 1954 | "Le Déserteur" | Boris Vian (France) |
| 1972 | "Dialogue" | Chicago |
| 1987 | "The Dogs of War" | Pink Floyd |
| 1967 | "(Don’t Put Your Boys in the Army), Mrs. Ward" | The Idle Race |
| 1980 | "Не стреляй!" ("Don't Shoot!") | DDT |
| 2005 | "Empire" | Dar Williams |
| 1965 | "Eve of Destruction" | Barry McGuire |
| 1968 | "Everybody's Cryin' Mercy" | Mose Allison |
| 1969 | "The Fiddle and the Drum" | Joni Mitchell |
| 1995 | “Зезагаш” (“Flowers”) | Alimsultan Imam (Soviet/Chechen) |
| 1995 | "Foggy Dew" | Sinéad O'Connor |
| 1973 | "For the Peace of All Mankind" | Albert Hammond |
| 1967 | "For What It's Worth" | Buffalo Springfield |
| 1969 | "Fortunate Son" | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| 1969 | "Galveston" | Glen Campbell |
| 1980 | "Games Without Frontiers" | Peter Gabriel |
| 1974 | "The Gates of Delirium" | Yes |
| 1980 | "Generals and Majors" | XTC |
| 2024 | "Generation D" | Trèbé Repus |
| 1986 | "Gimme Peace on the Earth'" | Modern Talking |
| 1973 | "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" | George Harrison |
| 1969 | "Give Peace a Chance" | Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon |
| 1987 | "Gods of War" | Def Leppard |
| 1963 | "Gone the Rainbow" | Peter, Paul and Mary |
| 1966 | "La Guerra Di Piero" | Fabrizio De André (Italy) |
| 1962 | "La Guerre De 14–18" | Georges Brassens (France) |
| 2013 | "Gun" | My Chemical Romance |
| 1987 | "Gun Shy" | 10,000 Maniacs |
| 1983 | "The Gunner's Dream" | Pink Floyd |
| 2007 | "Gunslinger" | Avenged Sevenfold |
| 2010 | "Half a World Away" | Joe Cerisano |
| 1966 | "Handsome Johnny" | Richie Havens |
| 1971 | "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" | John & Yoko/The Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir |
| 2010 | "Harmony" | Never Shout Never |
| 1969 | "Harold Land" | Yes |
| 1976 | "Harvest for the World" | The Isley Brothers |
| 2008 | "Hero of War" | Rise Against |
| 2007 | "Heroes And Martyrs" | Bad Religion |
| 1991 | "Hole in the Bucket" | Michael Franti |
| 2004 | "Holiday" | Green Day |
| 2010 | "Holy War" | Asia |
| 2019 | "Home Back" | Jinjer (Ukraine) |
| 1968 | "The House at Pooneil Corners" | Jefferson Airplane |
| 1985 | "How Many Tears?" | Helloween |
| 2006 | "Hymn for the Dead" | Anti-Flag |
| 1965 | "I Ain't Marching Anymore" | Phil Ochs |
| 1987 | "I Don't Want to Be a Hero" | Johnny Hates Jazz |
| 1984 | "I Hope You Get Drafted" | Dicks |
| 2009 | "I Know" | The Proclaimers |
| 1982 | "I Love a Man in a Uniform" | Gang of Four |
| 2020 | "I Want to Die in a War" | Jreg |
| 1971 | "I'd Love to Change the World" | Ten Years After |
| 1960 | "If I Had a Hammer" | Peter, Paul and Mary |
| 1974 | "I'm Asking You, Sergeant, Where's Mine?" | Billy Connolly |
| 1954 | "I'm in Korea" | J. B. Lenoir |
| 1971 | "Imagine" | John Lennon |
| 1981 | "Invisible Sun" | The Police |
| 2001 | "Jet Fighter" | Butthole Surfers |
| 1962 | "John Brown" | Bob Dylan |
| 2002 | "John Walker's Blues" | Steve Earle |
| 1867 | "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" | Traditional |
| 2013 | "Johnny S'en Va En Guerre" | Les Sales Majestés |
| 1976 | "Johnny Was" | Bob Marley & the Wailers |
| 1955 | "Les Joyeux Bouchers" | Boris Vian (France) |
| 1989 | "Kill the President" | The Offspring |
| 2014 | "Killing Strangers" | Marilyn Manson |
| 2013 | "Krieg Kennt Keine Sieger" | Saltatio Mortis |
| 1974 | "La La Peace Song" | Al Wilson, O. C. Smith |
| 1980 | "Last Chance" | Shooting Star |
| 1950 | "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream" | Ed McCurdy |
| 1973 | "Lay Down Your Arms" | Doron Levinson (Israel) |
| 1986 | "Lay Down Your Guns" | Emerson, Lake & Powell |
| 2013 | "Letters Home" | Radical Face |
| 1979 | "Little Boy Soldiers" | The Jam |
| 1983 | "A Little Good News" | Anne Murray |
| 1986 | "Live in Peace" | The Firm |
| 2006 | "Living With War" | Neil Young |
| 1990 | "Love Can Build a Bridge" | The Judds |
| 1973 | "Love Train" | The O'Jays |
| 1970 | "Lucky Man" | Emerson, Lake, and Palmer |
| 1973 | "Luglio, Agosto, Settembre (Nero)" | Area |
| 2008 | "Make Dub Not War" | Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno |
| 2006 | "Mama" | My Chemical Romance |
| 1977 | "Man of War" | The Jackson 5 |
| 1985 | "The Man's Too Strong" | Dire Straits |
| 1991 | "March for Me, Die for Me" | Cyclone Temple |
| 1997 | "March With Me" | Montserrat Caballé and Vangelis |
| 1963 | "Masters of War" | Bob Dylan |
| 2016 | "A Matter of Habit" | Moddi |
| 1962 | "May There Always Be Sunshine" ("Пусть всегда будет солнце!") | Lev Oshanin / Arkady Ostrovsky / Maya Kristalinskaya |
| 2003 | "Meneer De President" | K3 |
| 1986 | "Method to Your Madness" | Metal Church |
| 1971 | "Military Madness" | Graham Nash |
| 1973 | "Mind Games" | John Lennon |
| 1961 | "Miss Guéguerre" | Léo Ferré |
| 1982 | "Mothers, Daughters, Wives" | Judy Small |
| 1964 | "Mr. Lonely" | Bobby Vinton |
| 1993 | "Né en 17 à Leidenstadt" | Jean-Jacques Goldman |
| 1970 | "Never Kill Another Man" | Steve Miller Band |
| 1980 | "No Dudaría" | Antonio Flores |
| 1984 | "No Fuckin' War" | Dicks |
| 1976 | "No Man's Land" | Eric Bogle |
| 2018 | "No More" | Disturbed |
| 1978 | "No More Trouble" | Bob Marley & the Wailers |
| 2018 | "Non mi avete fatto niente" | Ermal Meta and Fabrizio Moro |
| 1983 | "Not Now John" | Pink Floyd |
| 1970 | "Ohio" | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young |
| 1997 | "One More Parade" | Phil Ochs |
| 1969 | "One Tin Soldier" | The Original Caste, Coven |
| 2006 | "One Word (Peace)" | the Subdudes |
| 2007 | "Our Solemn Hour" | Within Temptation |
| 1961 | "Pacific Blues" | Léo Ferré |
| 1982 | "Part III" | Bad Religion |
| 1988 | "Part IV (The Index Fossil)" | Bad Religion |
| 1972 | "The Patriot's Dream" | Gordon Lightfoot |
| 2002 | "Paz Y Amor" ("Peace And love") | Gisela |
| 1981 | "Peace" | Roger Lee Hall |
| 1971 | "Peace Train" | Cat Stevens |
| 1977 | "Peace Will Come" | Tom Paxton |
| 1970 | "Peace Will Come (According to Plan)"" | Melanie Safka |
| 1972 | "People, Let's Stop the War" | Grand Funk Railroad |
| 2000 | "Pick Up the Bones" | Alice Cooper |
| 1982 | "Pipes of Peace" | Paul McCartney |
| 1986 | "Plantas Embaixo do Aquário" | Legião Urbana |
| 1972 | "Political Science" | Randy Newman |
| 2002 | "Poor Places" | Wilco |
| 1971 | "Power to the People" | John Lennon |
| 1958 | "Prayer for Peace" | Perry Como |
| 2002 | "Prisoners of War" | Funker Vogt |
| 1969 | "Prologue, August 29, 1968" | Chicago |
| 2024 | "The Promised Land" | Ekagra Fuloria |
| 1976 | "Protocol" | Gordon Lightfoot |
| 2015 | "Psycho" | Muse |
| 1987 | "Put Down That Weapon" | Midnight Oil |
| 1969 | "Questions 67 & 68" | Chicago |
| 2018 | "Raise Your Banner" | Within Temptation |
| 1979 | "Ratziti Sheteda" | Uzi Hitman |
| 1992 | "Rest in Peace" | Extreme |
| 2018 | "The Reckoning" | Within Temptation |
| 1967 | "Requiem for the Masses" | The Association |
| 1968 | "Revolution" | The Beatles |
| 1985 | "Ride Across the River" | Dire Straits |
| 2006 | "Right in Two" | Tool |
| 2005 | "Road to Joy" | Bright Eyes |
| 1992 | "Rooster" | Alice in Chains |
| 2012 | "Royay E Ma" ("Our Dream") | Ebi, Shadmehr Aghili |
| 1972 | "Sale Away" | Randy Newman |
| 1962 | "Sag Mir, Wo Die Blumen Sind" | Marlene Dietrich |
| 1971 | "Sam Stone" | John Prine |
| 1970 | "Shir LaShalom" | Lehakat HaNachal |
| 1982 | "Short Memory" | Midnight Oil |
| 1984 | "Showdown" | Jefferson Starship |
| 1966 | "The Side of a Hill" | Paul Simon |
| 1968 | "Six White Horses" | Henson Cargill |
| 1968 | "Sky Pilot" | The Animals |
| 1970 | "Sloth" | Fairport Convention |
| 1984 | "Soldados" | Legião Urbana |
| 1971 | "Soldier Blue" | Buffy Sainte-Marie |
| 1962 | "Soldier Boy" | The Shirelles |
| 1986 | "Soldier of Plenty" | Jackson Browne |
| 1981 | "Soldiers" | ABBA |
| 2011 | "Soldier's Angel" | Stevie Nicks |
| 2006 | "Soldier's Poem" | Muse |
| 1987 | "Soldiers of Love" | Liliane Saint-Pierre |
| 1971 | "Soldiers Who Want to Be Heroes" | Rod McKuen |
| 1969 | "Some Mother's Son" | The Kinks |
| 2008 | "Something to see" | Tracy Chapman |
| 1972 | "State of Union" | Chicago |
| 1995 | "Still Spinning Shrapnel" | Skyclad |
| 2010 | "Stop the War" | Sugar Blue |
| 2024 | "Stop the War!" | Pickap.art |
| 1970 | "Stop the War Now" | Edwin Starr |
| 1982 | "Stories of a Hero" | Frank Marino |
| 1985 | "Stupid, Stupid War" | Dirty Rotten Imbeciles |
| 1967 | "Suppose They Give a War and No One Comes" | The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band |
| 2011 | "Survivor Guilt" | Rise Against |
| 2005 | "Sweet Neo Con" | The Rolling Stones |
| 1992 | "Systematic Execution" | Malevolent Creation |
| 2005 | "Tassavor Kon" ("Imagine") | Siavash Ghomayshi |
| 1991 | "Tell Me Why" | Genesis |
| 1985 | "Territories" | Rush |
| 1971 | "That's What I'd Like to Know" | Colonel Bagshot |
| 1964 | "The Times They are a-Changin'" | Bob Dylan |
| 1964 | "There But for Fortune" | Phil Ochs |
| 1967 | "There Won't Be Many Coming Home" | Roy Orbison |
| 1981 | "They All Look the Same" | Grace Slick |
| 2009 | "This Is War" | Thirty Seconds to Mars |
| 2017 | "This Is War" | Bush |
| 1969 | "To Susan on the West Coast Waiting" | Donovan |
| 2003 | "To Washington" | John Mellencamp |
| 1978 | "Too Much War" | Inner Circle & the Fat Man Riddim Section |
| 1993 | "Too Young to Die" | Jamiroquai |
| 2010 | "Trigger-Happy Hands" | Placebo |
| 1959 | "Turn! Turn! Turn!" | Pete Seeger |
| 1984 | "Two Tribes" | Frankie Goes to Hollywood |
| 1993 | "Under the Same Sun" | Scorpions |
| 1971 | "Ungena Za Ulimwengu (Unite the World)" | The Temptations |
| 1964 | "Universal Soldier" | Buffy Sainte-Marie / Glen Campbell |
| 2006 | "Unknown Soldier" | Breaking Benjamin |
| 1968 | "The Unknown Soldier" | The Doors |
| 1973 | "Us and Them" | Pink Floyd |
| 2008 | "Violet Hill" | Coldplay |
| 1993 | "Vrede" | Ruth Jacott |
| 1967 | "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" | Pete Seeger |
| 2021 | "Waiting on a War" | Foo Fighters |
| 1979 | "Walked in Line" | Joy Division |
| 1976 | "War" | Bob Marley and the Wailers |
| 1986 | "War" | Bruce Springsteen |
| 1970 | "War" | Edwin Starr |
| 1984 | "War" | Frankie Goes to Hollywood |
| 2003 | "War" | Joan Osbourne |
| 1988 | "Война" ("War") | Kino (band) |
| 1994 | "War Again" | Oingo Boingo |
| 1987 | "War Baby" | Mick Jagger |
| 1970 | "War Pigs" | Black Sabbath |
| 1997 | "War Pimp Renaissance" | Lard |
| 1984 | "The War Song" | Culture Club |
| 1972 | "War Song" | Neil Young and Graham Nash |
| 1967 | "War Sucks" | Red Krayola |
| 2006 | "War Sucks, Let's Party!" | Anti-Flag |
| 2017 | "War TV" | Gerry Cinammon |
| 1980 | "Wardance" | Killing Joke |
| 1992 | "Wargasm" | L7 |
| 2008 | “Warm Winter” | Seth Sentry |
| 2004 | "Warrior" | Steve Earle |
| 2015 | "Wars for Nothing" | Boggie |
| 1980 | "Washington Bullets" | The Clash |
| 2023 | "Watergun" | Remo Forrer |
| 2007 | "The Way the Wind Blows" | Rush |
| 1981 | "We Don't Need the Army" | Slime |
| 1971 | "We Got to Have Peace" | Curtis Mayfield |
| 1965 | "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" | The Animals |
| 1967 | "We Love You" | The Rolling Stones |
| 2011 | "Welcome to Your Wedding Day" | The Airborne Toxic Event |
| 1966 | "Welterusten meneer de president" | Boudewijn de Groot |
| 1964 | "What Are You Fighting For" | Phil Ochs |
| 2002 | "What If We All Stopped Paying Taxes?" | Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings |
| 1965 | "What the World Needs Now Is Love" | Hal David/Burt Bacharach |
| 1971 | "What's Going On" | Marvin Gaye |
| 2002 | "What's Left of the Flag" | Flogging Molly |
| 1974 | "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" | Nick Lowe |
| 1990 | "When Hell Breaks Loose" | Peer Günt |
| 2014 | "When Two Empires Collide" | Jinjer |
| 1961 | "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" | Pete Seeger |
| 2003 | "Where Is the Love?" | Black-Eyed Peas |
| 2010 | "White Flag Warrior" | Flobots |
| 1980 | "Who's Gonna Win the War?" | Hawkwind |
| 1975 | "Why Can't We Be Friends?" | War (band) |
| 1973 | "Why Can't We Live Together" | Timmy Thomas |
| 1979 | "Why Go to War" | William Onyeabor |
| 1964 | "With God on Our Side" | Bob Dylan |
| 2011 | "The Words That Maketh Murder" | PJ Harvey |
| 2014 | "World Peace Is None of Your Business" | Morrissey |
| 1981 | "World Turned Upside Down" | Dick Gaughan |
| 2004 | "World War" | Yellowman |
| 1981 | "Wozu Sind Kriege Da?" | Udo Lindenberg |
| 1969 | "The Yard Went on Forever" | Richard Harris |
| 1979 | "Yihye Tov (It Will Be Good/Things Will Be Better)" | David Broza |
| 2003 | "Your Revolution Is a Joke" | Funeral for a Friend |
| 1971 | "Yours Is No Disgrace" | Yes |
| 2007 | "Zero Sum" | Nine Inch Nails |
| 1994 | "Zombie" | The Cranberries |
| 1976 | "Zombie" | Fela Kuti |

## American Civil War

| Year | Song | Artist |
| 2009 | "Abraham Lincoln" | Clutch |
| 1861 | "All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight" | Ethel Lynn Beers |
| 1969 | "Arkansas Grass" | Axiom |
| 1995 | "Ben McCulloch" | Steve Earle |
| 1962 | "The Big Battle" | Johnny Cash |
| 1974 | "Billy Don't Be a Hero" | Paper Lace |
| 2013 | "Bloodshed" | Soulfly |
| 2011 | "Broken Hymns" | Dropkick Murphys |
| 2003 | "Cross the Green Mountain" | Bob Dylan |
| 1962 | "Cruel War" | Peter, Paul and Mary |
| 2004 | "The Devil to Pay" | Iced Earth |
| 1987 | "Gettysburg" | The Brandos |
| 1983 | "God Bless Robert E. Lee" | Johnny Cash |
| 1963 | "In the Hills of Shiloh" | Shel Silverstein |
| 1959 | "Johnny Reb" | Johnny Horton |
| 1968 | "The Klan" | Richie Havens |
| 1993 | "Lincoln's Army" | Johnny McEvoy |
| 2008 | "Lone Pine Hill" | Justin Townes Earle |
| 1865 | "Marching Through Georgia" | Henry Clay Work |
| 1969 | "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" | The Band / Joan Baez |
| 1863 | "Poor Kitty Popcorn" | Henry C. Work |
| 1991 | "Rebel Soldier" | Waylon Jennings |
| 1999 | "Shiloh Town" | Tim Hardin |
| 1998 | "Silent Reign of Heroes" | Molly Hatchet |
| 1968 | "Six White Horses" | Tommy Cash |
| 2012 | "Some Nights" | Fun |
| 1978 | "The Southland's Bleeding" | Waylon Jennings |
| 1986 | "Swan Swan H" | R.E.M. |
| 2004 | "Tears of God" | Josh Turner |
| 1863 | "Tenting on the Old Camp Ground" | Walter Kittredge |
| 1993 | "Two Soldiers" | Bob Dylan |
| 1861 | "The Vacant Chair" | George F. Root |
| 1921 | "Wildwood Flower" | Carter Family |

## American Indian Wars

| Year | Song | Artist |
| 1964 | "Apache Tears" | Johnny Cash |
| 2008 | "Battle at Little Big Horn" | White Lion |
| 1980 | "Buffalo Soldier" | Bob Marley |
| 1997 | "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" | Walela |
| 1967 | "Castles Made of Sand" | Jimi Hendrix |
| 1986 | "Cherokee" | Europe |
| 1960 | "Comanche (The Brave Horse)" | Johnny Horton |
| 1997 | "Cowboy Dan" | Modest Mouse |
| 2004 | "Creek Mary's Blood" | Nightwish |
| 1969 | "Custer Died for Your Sins" | Floyd Westerman |
| 1992 | "Freedom" | Rage Against the Machine |
| 1980 | "Genocide (The Killing of the Buffalo)" | Thin Lizzy |
| 1977 | "Indian Man" | The Charlie Daniels Band |
| 1971 | "Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)" | Paul Revere & the Raiders |
| 1987 | "Indians" | Anthrax |
| 1971 | "Indian Sunset" | Elton John |
| 1991 | "Little Big Horn" | Running Wild |
| 1973 | "The Lone Ranger" | Oscar Brown |
| 2001 | "Mick Ryan's Lament" | Tim O'Brien and Robert Dunlap |
| 1960 | "Mr. Custer" | Larry Verne |
| 1964 | "Now That the Buffalo's Gone" | Buffy Sainte-Marie |
| 1979 | "Pocahontas" | Neil Young |
| 1982 | "Run to the Hills" | Iron Maiden |
| 1971 | "Soldier Blue" | Buffy Sainte-Marie |
| 1962 | "Some Fool Made a Soldier of Me" | The Kingston Trio |
| 2001 | "Stars And Stripes" | Anti-Flag |
| 1971 | "Then Came the White Man" | The Stampeders |
| 2002 | "Wampum Prayer" | Tori Amos |
| 1973 | "We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee" | Redbone |
| 1976 | "White Man" | Queen |

## World War I

| Year | Song | Artist |
| 1991 | "1916" | Motörhead |
| 1999 | "1917" | Linda Ronstadt |
| 2014 | "Argonne" | Garrison Keillor |
| 2011 | "All And Everyone" | PJ Harvey |
| 1982 | "All Quiet on the Western Front" | Elton John |
| 1990 | "All Together Now" | The Farm |
| 1972 | "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" | Eric Bogle |
| 1997 | "Belleau Wood" | Garth Brooks |
| 1968 | "Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914)" | The Zombies |
| 1985 | "Children's Crusade" | Sting |
| 1977 | "Christmas 1914" | Mike Harding |
| 1984 | "Christmas in the Trenches" | John McCutcheon |
| 2011 | "The Colour of the Earth" | PJ Harvey |
| 1917– 1944 | "Der Kaiser von Atlantis" | Viktor Ullmann |
| 1980 | "Es Ist an der Zeit" | Hannes Wader |
| 1982 | "Gallipoli" | The Fureys |
| 2005 | "The Green Fields of France" | Dropkick Murphys |
| 2009 | "Harry Farr" | Stray |
| 2009 | "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)" | Radiohead |
| 1914 | "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier" | Peerless Quartet |
| 1918 | "Oh! It's a Lovely War" | Ernest Pike and George Baker (baritone) |
| 2011 | "On Battleship Hill" | PJ Harvey |
| 2000 | "I Fought in a War" | Belle and Sebastian |
| 1996 | "It Could Happen Again" | Collin Raye |
| 2015 | "Nachts Weinen die Soldaten" | Saltatio Mortis |
| 1976 | "No Man's Land" a.k.a. "Green Fields of France" | Eric Bogle |
| 2014 | "Nuclear" | Mike Oldfield |
| 1988 | "One" | Metallica |
| 2003 | "Paschendale" | Iron Maiden |
| 1987 | "Remembrance Day" | Bryan Adams |
| 2007 | "Scream Aim Fire" | Bullet for My Valentine |
| 1969 | "Some Mother's Son" | The Kinks |
| 1914 | "Stay Down Here Where You Belong" | Irving Berlin |
| 1980 | "Stop the Cavalry" | Jona Lewie |
| 1969 | "Yes Sir, No Sir" | The Kinks |

## Spanish Civil War

| Year | Song | Artist |
| 1985 | "For Whom the Bell Tolls" | Metallica |
| 1998 | "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" | Manic Street Preachers |
| 1990 | "Lorca's Novena" | The Pogues |
| 2003 | "Skeletons of Quinto" | The Folksmen |
| 1983 | "Sketches of Spain" | The Nits |
| 1979 | "Spanish Bombs" | The Clash |
| 1963 | "Spanish Civil War Song" (or "Spanish Lament") | Phil Ochs |

## World War II

| Year | Song | Artist |
| 2016 | "1944" | Jamala |
| 1984 | "Aces High" | Iron Maiden |
| 2004 | "Alive With the Glory of Love" | Say Anything |
| 1989 | "Ausgebombt" | Sodom |
| 1986 | "Angel of Death" | Slayer |
| 1979 | "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 1)" | Pink Floyd |
| 1945 | "At Mail Call Today" | Gene Autry |
| 1964 | "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" | Johnny Cash |
| 1979 | "Bring the Boys Back Home" | Pink Floyd |
| 1968 | "Corporal Clegg" | Pink Floyd |
| 1986 | "Dieppe" | Vilain Pingouin |
| 1980 | "Enola Gay" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark |
| 1979 | "Goodbye Blue Sky" | Pink Floyd |
| 1979 | "In the Flesh" | Pink Floyd |
| 1982 | "Kristallnaach" | BAP |
| 1985 | "Manhattan Project" | Rush |
| 1969 | "Mr. Churchill Says" | The Kinks |
| 1984 | "Red Sector A" | Rush |
| 1973 | "Roads to Moscow" | Al Stewart |
| 1993 | "Sullivan" | Caroline's Spine |
| 2010 | "Thank You, Mr. Churchill" | Peter Frampton |
| 1979 | "Vera" | Pink Floyd |
| 2005 | "The War" | Angels and Airwaves |
| 1982 | "War Is Hell (On the Homefront Too)" | T.G. Sheppard |
| 2007 | "What I've Done" | Linkin Park |
| 1982 | "When the Tigers Broke Free" | Pink Floyd |

## Cold War and Nuclear Annihilation

| Year | Song | Artist |
| 1984 | "2 Minutes to Midnight" | Iron Maiden |
| 2007 | "4 Minute Warning" | Radiohead |
| 1967 | "20 Tons of TNT" | Flanders and Swann |
| 1983 | "99 Luftballons" and "99 Red Balloons" | Nena |
| 1968 | "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)" | The Jimi Hendrix Experience |
| 1982 | "1999" | Prince |
| 1982 | "America" | The Au Pairs |
| 1985 | "America" | Prince |
| 1991 | "The American" | Simple Minds |
| 1984 | "Amerika" | Herbert Grönemeyer |
| 1985 | "And Then There Were None" | Exodus |
| 1979 | "Armageddon" | Prism |
| 1986 | "Ask" | The Smiths |
| 1978 | "Atomic Bomb" | William Onyeabor |
| 1992 | "Atomic Garden" | Bad Religion |
| 1988 | "Battalions of Fear" | Blind Guardian |
| 1981 | "Battalions of Strangers" | Fischer Z |
| 1984 | "Be Not Always" | The Jacksons |
| 1984 | "Beyond the Black" | Metal Church |
| 2007 | "Big Joe Blues" | Pete Seeger |
| 1988 | "Blackened" | Metallica |
| 1992 | "Born to End" | Manic Street Preachers |
| 1980 | "Breathing" | Kate Bush |
| 2006 | "Brighter than a Thousand Suns" | Iron Maiden |
| 1985 | "Burning Heart" | Survivor |
| 2010 | "Burning in the Skies" | Linkin Park |
| 1971 | "Children of the Grave" | Black Sabbath |
| 1986 | "Christmas at Ground Zero" | "Weird Al" Yankovic |
| 1982 | "Cold War" | Oppenheimer Analysis |
| 2000 | "Cold War" | Funker Vogt |
| 1963 | "Come Away Melinda" | Harry Belafonte |
| 1960 | "Crawl Out Through the Fallout" | Sheldon Allman |
| 1980 | "Crazy Train" | Ozzy Osbourne |
| 1981 | "Cruise Missiles" | Fischer-Z |
| 1982 | "De Bom" | Doe Maar |
| 1984 | "De Bom Valt Nooit" | Herman van Veen |
| 1981 | "Fire in the Sky" | Saxon |
| 1999 | "Destruction Preventer" | Sonata Arctica |
| 1982 | "Der Blaue Planet" | Karat |
| 1961 | "Do the Russians Want War?" ("Хотят ли русские войны?") | Mark Bernes |
| 2008 | "Down From the Sky" | Trivium |
| 1981 | "Dumb All Over" | Frank Zappa |
| 1988 | "Eagle Fly Free" | Helloween |
| 1983 | "East at Easter" | Simple Minds |
| 1982 | "Ein Bißchen Frieden" | Nicole Seibert |
| 1970 | "Electric Funeral" | Black Sabbath |
| 1969 | "Epitaph" | King Crimson |
| 1965 | "Eve of Destruction" | P.F. Sloan (also recorded by Barry McGuire and The Turtles) |
| 1984 | "Every Bomb You Make" | The Police |
| 1985 | "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" | Tears for Fears |
| 1989 | "Fabulous Disaster" | Exodus |
| 1988 | "Fallout" | Liege Lord |
| 1990 | "Famous Last Words" | Tears for Fears |
| 1984 | "Fight Fire with Fire" | Metallica |
| 1980 | "Final Day" | Young Marble Giants |
| 1984 | "Forever Young" | Alphaville |
| 2005 | "Fuel the Hate" | Soulfly |
| 1974 | "Future Legend" | David Bowie |
| 1986 | "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" | Timbuk3 |
| 1980 | "Fylingdale Flyer" | Jethro Tull |
| 1980 | "Going Underground" | The Jam |
| 1994 | "A Great Day for Freedom" | Pink Floyd |
| 1984 | "Hammer to Fall" | Queen |
| 1962 | "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" | Bob Dylan |
| 1982 | "Heatwave" | Fay Ray |
| 1971 | "Hiroshima" | Wishful Thinking |
| 1966 | "I Come and Stand at Every Door" (based on a poem by Nazım Hikmet) | Pete Seeger |
| 1983 | "I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" | Nik Kershaw |
| 1982 | "I've Known No War" | The Who |
| 1983 | "It's a Mistake" | Men at Work |
| 1988 | "Killing Fields" | Scanner |
| 1986 | "Killer of Giants" | Ozzy Osbourne |
| 1973 | "Kuiama" | Electric Light Orchestra |
| 1986 | "Land of Confusion" | Genesis |
| 1986 | "Legacy of Morons" | The Trilobites |
| 1989 | "Leningrad" | Billy Joel |
| 1986 | "Let Us Begin" | John Denver with Alexander Gradsky |
| 1981 | "Let's All Make a Bomb" | Heaven 17 |
| 1980 | "Living Through Another Cuba" | XTC |
| 1985 | "Manhattan Project" | Rush |
| 1984 | "Minutes to Midnight" | Midnight Oil |
| 1965 | "MLF Lullaby" | Tom Lehrer |
| 1983 | "Moya" | Southern Death Cult |
| 1981 | "Mutually Assured Destruction" | Gillan |
| 1983 | "New Year's Day" | U2 |
| 1985 | "Nikita" | Elton John |
| 1986 | "No Nuclear War" | Peter Tosh |
| 2007 | "No One Would Riot for Less" | Bright Eyes |
| 1987 | "Nuclear War" | Nuclear Assault |
| 1987 | "Nuclear Winter" | Sodom |
| 2000 | "Nuclear Winter" | Funker Vogt |
| 1982 | "Nuku Pommiin" | Kojo |
| 1946 | "Old Man Atom" | Vern Partlow |
| 1988 | "Part IV (The Index Fossil)" | Bad Religion |
| 1985 | "Party at Ground Zero" | Fishbone |
| 1988 | "Pre-War America" | The Beatnigs |
| 1987 | "Protect and Survive" | The Dubliners |
| 1982 | "Radiance" | Oppenheimer Analysis |
| 1987 | "Radio K.A.O.S." | Roger Waters |
| 1986 | "Ready or Not" | Bananarama |
| 1982 | "Red Skies" | The Fixx |
| 1981 | "Red Skies over Paradise" | Fischer-Z |
| 1990 | "Reduced to Ash" | Annihilator |
| 1979 | "Remember Russia" | Fischer-Z |
| 1990 | "Right Here, Right Now" | Jesus Jones |
| 1983 | "Rival Leaders" | The Exploited |
| 2009 | "Ruination" | Job for a Cowboy |
| 1985 | "Russians" | Sting |
| 1990 | "Rust in Peace... Polaris" | Megadeth |
| 1986 | "SDI" | Bonfire |
| 1983 | "Seconds" | U2 |
| 1988 | "Set the World Afire" | Megadeth |
| 1980 | "Seven Minutes to Midnight" | Wah! Heat |
| 1987 | "Showdown at Big Sky" | Robbie Robertson |
| 1984 | "Since Yesterday" | Strawberry Switchblade |
| 1965 | "So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)" | Tom Lehrer |
| 1983 | "Somethin's Goin' On" | Ian Hunter |
| 1983 | "Sonderzug nach Pankow" | Udo Lindenberg |
| 1983 | "Standing in the Dark" | Platinum Blonde |
| 1963 | "The Sun Is Burning" | Ian Campbell Folk Group |
| 1988 | "Surfin' USSR" | Ray Stevens |
| 1986 | "Survival of the Fittest" | Slave Raider |
| 1957 | "Talking Atom" | Oscar Brand |
| 1986 | "Thank God for the Bomb" | Ozzy Osbourne |
| 1979 | "They've Got a Bomb" | Crass |
| 1954 | "Thirteen Women and Only One Man in Town" | Bill Haley and the Comets |
| 1983 | "Time After Time" | Electric Light Orchestra |
| 1983 | "Two Suns in the Sunset" | Pink Floyd |
| 1984 | "Two Tribes" | Frankie Goes to Hollywood |
| 1982 | "US Forces" | Midnight Oil |
| 1983 | "Vamos a la playa" | Righeira |
| 1983 | "Walking in Your Footsteps" | The Police |
| 1985 | "Warnings Moving Clockwise" | Do-Re-Mi |
| 1987 | "Wartime" | Pentagram |
| 1984 | "Watching Joey Glow" | Steve Goodman |
| 1966 | "Welterusten meneer de president" | Boudewijn de Groot |
| 1959 | "We Will All Go Together" | Tom Lehrer |
| 1986 | "When the Wind Blows" | David Bowie |
| 1981 | "When Two Worlds Collide" | Simple Minds |
| 1965 | "Who's Next?" | Tom Lehrer |
| 1982 | "Why Did I Fall for That?" | The Who |
| 1986 | "Воля и Разум" ("Will And Reason") | Aria |
| 1985 | "Will the Sun Rise" | Dokken |
| 1990 | "Wind of Change" | Scorpions |
| 1988 | "World Leader Pretend" | R.E.M. |
| 1984 | "World War III" | Grandmaster Melle Mel and the Furious Five |

## Vietnam War

| Year | Song | Artist |
| 1966 | "7 O'Clock News/Silent Night" | Simon & Garfunkel |
| 1985 | "19" | Paul Hardcastle |
| 1968 | "2 + 2 = ?" | Bob Seger System |
| 1969 | "21st Century Schizoid Man" | King Crimson |
| 1971 | "A Summer Prayer for Peace" | The Archies |
| 1973 | "Aladdin Sane" | David Bowie |
| 1967 | "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" | Arlo Guthrie |
| 1986 | "Black Wall" | Dennis DeYoung |
| 1970 | "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)" | The Temptations |
| 1972 | "The Ballad of Penny Evans" | Steve Goodman |
| 1984 | "Born in the USA" | Bruce Springsteen |
| 1977 | "Born on the Fourth of July" | Tom Paxton |
| 1971 | "Bring the Boys Home" | Freda Payne |
| 1966 | "Bring Them Home" | Pete Seeger |
| 1965 | "Business Goes on As Usual" | Chad Mitchell Trio |
| 1984 | "The Captain" | Leonard Cohen |
| 1966 | "C'era Un Ragazzo Che Come Me Amava I Beatles E I Rolling Stones" | Gianni Morandi |
| 1970 | "Child in Time" | Deep Purple |
| 1989 | "Compulsory Hero" | 1927 (band) |
| 1988 | "Copperhead Road" | Steve Earle |
| 1965 | "Dear Uncle Sam" | Loretta Lynn |
| 1969 | "Declaration" | The Fifth Dimension |
| 1969 | "Disk of Sun" | Ewan MacColl |
| 1968 | "Draft Morning" | The Byrds |
| 1970 | "Draft Resister" | Steppenwolf |
| 1965 | "Eve of Destruction" | Barry McGuire and P.F. Sloan |
| 1969 | "The Fiddle and the Drum" | Joni Mitchell |
| 1967 | "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag" / "Fixin to Die Rag" | Country Joe McDonald |
| 1967 | "For What It's Worth" | Buffalo Springfield |
| 1969 | "Fortunate Son" | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| 1970 | "Frightened Lady" | The Hollies |
| 1977 | "Front Line" | Stevie Wonder |
| 1966 | "Get It While You Can" | Janis Joplin |
| 1969 | "Gimme Shelter" | Rolling Stones |
| 1969 | "Give Peace a Chance" | The Plastic Ono Band |
| 1972 | "Golden Ribbons" | Loggins and Messina |
| 1981 | "Goodnight Saigon" | Billy Joel |
| 1971 | "The Grave" | Don McLean |
| 1972 | "The Great Compromise" | John Prine |
| 1972 | "Guns, Guns, Guns" | The Guess Who |
| 1970 | "Hand of Doom" | Black Sabbath |
| 1973 | "Hallelujah Day" | Jackson 5 |
| 1971 | "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" | John Lennon & Yoko Ono/The Plastic Ono Band |
| 1965 | "I Ain't Marching Anymore" | Phil Ochs |
| 1968 | "I Don't Wanna Go to Vietnam" | John Lee Hooker |
| 1970 | "I Should Be Proud" | Martha and the Vandellas |
| 1983 | "I Was Only 19 (A Walk in the Light Green)" | Redgum |
| 1971 | "I'd Love to Change the World" | Ten Years After |
| 1970 | "I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)" | Grand Funk Railroad |
| 1981 | "In the Army Now" | Status Quo |
| 1968 | "Kay" | John Wesley Ryles |
| 1978 | "Khe Sanh" | Cold Chisel |
| 1966 | "Kill for Peace" | The Fugs |
| 1970 | "Kill Your Sons" | Lou Reed |
| 1974 | "La La Peace Song" | Al Wilson, O. C. Smith |
| 1970 | "Last Train to Nuremberg" | Pete Seeger |
| 1970 | "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" | Melanie Safka |
| 1973 | "Luang Prabang" | Dave Van Ronk |
| 1965 | "Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation" | Tom Paxton |
| 1970 | "Machine Gun" | Jimi Hendrix |
| 1970 | "Mama Bake a Pie (Daddy Kill a Chicken)" | Tom T. Hall |
| 1971 | "Man in Black" | Johnny Cash |
| 1973 | "March to the Witch's Castle" | Funkadelic |
| 1969 | "Monster" | Steppenwolf |
| 1971 | "Moratorium" | Buffy Sainte-Marie |
| 1966 | "My Name Is Lisa Kalvelage" | Pete Seeger |
| 1966 | "My Son John" | Tom Paxton |
| 1972 | "Napalm Sticks to Kids" | Covered Wagon Musicians |
| 1972 | "Now Or Never" | Yoko Ono |
| 1985 | "Old Hippie" | The Bellamy Brothers |
| 1967 | "On the Path of Glory" | Petula Clark |
| 1964 | "One More Parade" | Phil Ochs |
| 1971 | "One Tin Soldier" | Coven |
| 1988 | "Orange Crush" | R.E.M. |
| 1972 | "The Patriot's Dream" | Gordon Lightfoot |
| 1971 | "People, Let's Stop the War" | Grand Funk Railroad |
| 1968 | "Por Vietnam" | Quilapayún |
| 1970 | "Question" | The Moody Blues |
| 1972 | "Readjustment Blues" | John Denver |
| 1967 | "Requiem for the Masses" | The Association |
| 1992 | "Rooster" | Alice in Chains |
| 1970 | "Running Gun Blues" | David Bowie |
| 1967 | "Saigon Bride" | Joan Baez |
| 1971 | "Sam Stone" | John Prine |
| 1970 | "Silent Homecoming" | Ringo Starr |
| 1968 | "Simple Song of Freedom" | Bobby Darin |
| 1971 | "Singing in Vietnam Talking Blues" | Johnny Cash |
| 1970 | "Sit Down Young Stranger" | Gordon Lightfoot |
| 1971 | "Six White Horses" | Waylon Jennings |
| 1968 | "Sky Pilot" | Eric Burdon and the Animals |
| 1969 | "Smiley" | Ronnie Burns |
| 1976 | "Soldier" | Stephen Stills |
| 1990 | "Something to Believe In" | Poison |
| 1969 | "Someday (August 29, 1968)" | Chicago |
| 1983 | "Song for the Dead" | Randy Newman |
| 1982 | "Still in Saigon" | The Charlie Daniels Band |
| 1970 | "Stoned Love" | The Supremes |
| 1969 | "Story of Isaac" | Leonard Cohen |
| 1971 | "Student Demonstration Time" | The Beach Boys |
| 1971 | "Sunshine" | Jonathan Edwards |
| 1967 | "Super Bird" | Country Joe and the Fish |
| 1969 | "Sweet Cherry Wine" | Tommy James and the Shondells |
| 1967 | "Take It Back" | Cream |
| 1964 | "Talkin' Vietnam" | Phil Ochs |
| 1968 | "Talking Vietnam Potluck Blues" | Tom Paxton |
| 1968 | "Three-Five-Zero-Zero" | from the musical, Hair |
| 1969 | "To Susan on the West Coast Waiting" | Donovan |
| 2002 | "Travelin' Soldier" | The Chicks |
| 1968 | "The Unknown Soldier" | The Doors |
| 1984 | "Viet Nam" | Minutemen |
| 1966 | "Vietcong Blues" | Junior Wells |
| 1962 | "Vietnam" | Phil Ochs |
| 1970 | "Vietnam" | Jimmy Cliff |
| 1966 | "Vietnam Blues" | Kris Kristofferson |
| 1967 | "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" | Pete Seeger |
| 1970 | "War" | Edwin Starr |
| 1968 | "War Games" | The Monkees |
| 1965 | "The War Drags On" | Donovan |
| 1968 | "The War Is Over" | Phil Ochs |
| 1971 | "War Movie" | Jefferson Airplane |
| 1970 | "War Pigs" | Black Sabbath |
| 1969 | "Wasted Words" | The Motions with Robbie van Leeuwen |
| 1965 | "We Didn't Know" | Tom Paxton |
| 1966 | "Welterusten meneer de president (Sleep Well Mr. President)" | Boudewijn de Groot |
| 1964 | "What Did You Learn in School Today?" | Tom Paxton |
| 1971 | "What's Going On" | Marvin Gaye |
| 1973 | "Where Are You Now, My Son?" | Joan Baez |
| 1968 | "White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land" | Phil Ochs |
| 1965 | "The Willing Conscript" | Tom Paxton |
| 1969 | "Wooden Ships" | Crosby, Stills & Nash and Jefferson Airplane |
| 1970 | "Woodstock" | Joni Mitchell and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young |
| 1971 | "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore" | John Prine |
| 1971 | "Yours Is No Disgrace" | Yes |
| 1967 | “The Windows of the World” | Dionne Warwick |

## Dominican Civil War

| Year | Song | Artist |
| 1966 | "The Marines Have Landed on the Shores of Santo Domingo" | Phil Ochs |

## Turkish invasion of Cyprus

| Year | Song | Artist |
| 1976 | "Panagia Mou, Panagia Mou" | Mariza Koch and Michael Fotiades |

## Soviet-Afghan War

| Year | Song | Artist |
| 1986 | "Versante est" | Litfiba |
| 1988 | "Группа крови" ("Blood Type") | Kino |
| 1988 | "Афганский синдром" ("Afghan Syndrome") | Instruktsiya po Vyzhivaniyu |
| 1980s | "Привет Сестрёнка" ("Hello Sister") | Unknown |

## Iran-Iraq War

| Year | Song | Artist |
| 1988 | Solh ("Peace") | Hassan Shamaizadeh, Elaheh, Fataneh |
| 1988 | Tanin E Solh ("The Peace Resonance") | Moein, Morteza, Fataneh, Andy, Kouros, Elton Ahi |

## the Troubles of Northern Ireland

| Year | Song | Artist |
| 1978 | "78 RPM" | Stiff Little Fingers |
| 1978 | "90 Miles From Dublin" | Christy Moore |
| 1978 | "Alternative Ulster" | Stiff Little Fingers |
| 1991 | "La Ballade Nord-Irlandaise" | Renaud |
| 1995 | "Belfast" | Elton John |
| 1989 | "Belfast Child" | Simple Minds |
| 1979 | "Bloody Sunday" | Stiff Little Fingers |
| 1994 | "Bomb" | Bush |
| 1986 | "Corridor of Cells" | Test Dept |
| 1982 | "Damned to Be Free" | Bad Religion |
| 2002 | "Drunken Lullabies" | Flogging Molly |
| 1989 | "Easter" | Marillion |
| 1980 | "Fly the Flag" | Stiff Little Fingers |
| 1983 | "Forgotten Sons" | Marillion |
| 1967 | "Four Green Fields" | Tommy Makem |
| 1989 | "Get Out of Ireland" | Blaggers ITA |
| 2012 | "Get Your Dead Hand Off My Shoulder" | Therapy? |
| 1972 | "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" | Paul McCartney and Wings |
| 1998 | "Heal This Land" | Maire Brennan |
| 1990 | "Holy Wars...The Punishment Due" | Megadeth |
| 1983 | "The House of Orange" | Stan Rogers |
| 1976 | "If They Come in the Morning" a.k.a. "No Time for Love" | Jack Warshaw |
| 1979 | "Into the Valley" | Skids |
| 1981 | "Invisible Sun" | The Police |
| 1985 | "The Island" | Paul Brady |
| 1981 | "It's Going to Happen!" | The Undertones |
| 1983 | "Like a Song" | U2 |
| 1992 | "Look Mum, No Hands!" | Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine |
| 1996 | "Minds Locked Shut" | Christy Moore |
| 1982 | "The More I See (The Less I Believe)" | Fun Boy Three |
| 1984 | "My Youngest Son Came Home Today" | Mary Black |
| 1979 | "No More of That" | Stiff Little Fingers |
| 1995 | "North And South of the River" | Christy Moore |
| 1979 | "Oliver's Army" | Elvis Costello and the Attractions |
| 1985 | "Out in the Fields" | Gary Moore and Phil Lynott |
| 1999 | "Paper Sun" | Def Leppard |
| 2000 | "Peace on Earth" | U2 |
| 1997 | "Please" | U2 |
| 1978 | "The Saints Are Coming" | The Skids |
| 1987 | "Scaling the Derry Wall" | The Exploited |
| 1983 | "Section 31" | Christy Moore |
| 1979 | "State of Emergency" | Stiff Little Fingers |
| 1988 | "Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six" | The Pogues |
| 1972 | "Sunday Bloody Sunday" | John Lennon and Yoko Ono |
| 1983 | "Sunday Bloody Sunday" | U2 |
| 1998 | "Sunrise" | The Divine Comedy |
| 1992 | "Ten Men Dead" | Blaggers ITA |
| 1989 | "That's Just the Way It Is" | Phil Collins |
| 1985 | "There Were Roses" | Tommy Sands |
| 1997 | "This Is Not Your Country" | Morrissey |
| 1986 | "Through the Barricades" | Spandau Ballet |
| 1973 | "The Town I Loved So Well" | Phil Coulter |
| 1981 | "Troops Out" | The Passage |
| 1977 | "Ulster" | Sham 69 |
| 1978 | "Wasted Life" | Stiff Little Fingers |
| 1987 | "Wild Frontier" | Gary Moore |
| 1994 | "Zombie" | The Cranberries |

## Falklands War

| Year | Song | Artist |
| 1995 | "2 de Abril" | Attaque 77 |
| 1991 | "Another Man's Cause" | Levellers |
| 1990 | "The Ballad of Robbie Jones" | Levellers |
| 1985 | "Brothers in Arms" | Dire Straits |
| 1998 | "Como Estais Amigos" | Iron Maiden |
| 1988 | "Company Policy" | Martin Carthy |
| 1985 | "Comunicado #166" | Los Violadores |
| 1983 | "Death 'N' Glory Boys" | Ian Hunter |
| 1985 | "Eddie" | Latin Quarter |
| 1982 | "El Banquete" | Virus |
| 1998 | "El Visitante" | Almafuerte |
| 1983 | "Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert" | Pink Floyd |
| 1984 | "Island of No Return" | Billy Bragg |
| 1983 | "La Isla De La Buena Memoria" | Alejandro Lerner |
| 1983 | "Let's Start a War" | The Exploited |
| 1982 | "No Bombardeen Buenos Aires" | Charly Garcia |
| 1983 | "The Post War Dream" | Pink Floyd |
| 1982 | "Postkort Fra Port Stanley" | C.V. Jørgensen |
| 1983 | "Reina Madre" | Raúl Porchetto |
| 1983 | "The Right Side Won" | What Fun! |
| 1982 | "Sheep Farming in the Falklands" | Crass |
| 1983 | "Shipbuilding" | Elvis Costello and the Attractions |
| 1983 | "Southampton Dock" | Pink Floyd |
| 1986 | "Tango Atlantico" | Joe Jackson |
| 1984 | "Spirit of the Falklands" | New Model Army |
| 1984 | "Wha Dat" | Yellowman |
| 1983 | "Yes Sir, I Will" | Crass |

## Contras, Latin America

| Year | Song | Artist |
| 1984 | "All She Wants to Do Is Dance" | Don Henley |
| 1982 | "Bleed for Me" | Dead Kennedys |
| 1987 | "Bullet the Blue Sky" | U2 |
| 1983 | "El Salvador" | Cybotron |
| 1983 | "El Salvador" | Noel Stookey and Jim Wallis |
| 1985 | "El Salvador" | White Lion |
| 1986 | "The Flowers of Guatemala" | R.E.M. |
| 1984 | "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" | Bruce Cockburn |
| 1985 | "Lives in the Balance" | Jackson Browne |
| 1987 | “Mothers of the Disappeared” | U2 |
| 1984 | "Nicaragua" | Bruce Cockburn |
| 1990 | "Nicaragua, Nicaraguita" | Billy Bragg |
| 1984 | "No Más!" | John McCutcheon |
| 2007 | "Student Visas" | Corb Lund |
| 1984 | "Untitled Song for Latin America" | Minutemen |
| 1980 | "Washington Bullets" | The Clash |
| 1989 | "Wish I Was in El Salvador" | Jello Biafra with DOA |

## Yugoslav Wars

| Year | Song | Artist |
| 1992 | "Bili Cvitak" ("White flower") | Jura Stublić |
| 1996 | "Bosnia" | The Cranberries |
| 1997 | "Bosnia" | Spinetta y Los Socios del Desierto |
| 1995 | "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24" | Trans-Siberian Orchestra |
| 1993 | "Čovek Sa Mesecom U Očima" | Đorđe Balašević |
| 1994 | "Crv" | Angel's Breath |
| 1996 | "Cupe Vampe" | CSI |
| 1995 | "Dead Winter Dead" | Savatage |
| 2000 | "Dok Gori Nebo Nad Novim Sadom" | Đorđe Balašević |
| 1993 | "Gde Si" | Bajaga i Instruktori |
| 1991 | "Isabelle" | Greg Johnson |
| 1995 | "Kad Sve Ovo Bude Juče" | Dino Merlin |
| 1993 | "Krivi Smo Mi" | Đorđe Balašević |
| 1997 | "Lucky" | Radiohead |
| 1995 | "Miss Sarajevo" | Passengers |
| 1991 | "Nebo, Nebo Pplavo Je" | Obojeni Program |
| 1995 | "Neću III Svetski" | Babe |
| 1992 | "Nemoj Bosno Oprostiti" | Ibro Selmanović |
| 2006 | "No Bravery" | James Blunt |
| 1993 | "Ovo Je Balkan" | Bajaga i Instruktori |
| 1995 | "Peppers And Tomatoes" | Ralph McTell |
| 1995 | "Prayer of the Children" | Kurt Bestor |
| 1999 | "Pretty Good Day" | Loudon Wainwright III |
| 1995 | "Pure Massacre" | Silverchair |
| 1996 | "Regruteska" | Đorđe Balašević |
| 1993 | "Schöne Neue Welt" | Böhse Onkelz |
| 2000 | "Sevdalinka" | Đorđe Balašević |
| 1992 | "Slušaj 'Vamo" | Rimtutituki |
| 1991 | "Stop the War in Croatia" | Tomislav Ivčić |
| 1995 | "Vrbana Bridge" | Jill Sobule |

## Gulf Wars, Iraq, 9/11, and the War on Terror

| Year | Song | Artist |
| 2009 | "21 Guns" | Green Day |
| 2002 | "911" | Gorillaz and D12 |
| 2002 | "911 for Peace" | Anti-Flag |
| 2004 | "Act III Scene 2 (Shakespeare)" | Saul Williams |
| 2003 | "Aftermath" | Strapping Young Lad |
| 2005 | "All the Young Fascists" | Shihad |
| 2006 | "All These Things That I've Done" | The Killers |
| 2005 | "America First" | Merle Haggard |
| 2004 | "American Idiot" | Green Day |
| 1993 | "American Jesus" | Bad Religion |
| 2003 | "American Life" | Madonna |
| 2004 | "Amerika" | Rammstein |
| 2007 | "Amerikhastan" | Megadeth |
| 2009 | "Another Bag of Bones" | Kevin Devine |
| 2004 | "Apocalypse Please" | Muse |
| 2019 | "Arabesque" | Coldplay |
| 2007 | "As It Was, As It Soon Shall Be" | Exodus |
| 2004 | "Ashes of the Wake" | Lamb of God |
| 1992 | "Atomic Garden" | Bad Religion |
| 2008 | "Audience of One" | Rise Against |
| 2000 | "B.O.B" | Outkast |
| 2005 | "B.Y.O.B." | System of a Down |
| 1991 | "New Damage" | Soundgarden |
| 1991 | "Baghdad" | The Offspring |
| 2005 | "Bin Laden" | Immortal Technique |
| 2007 | "Black Rain" | Ozzy Osbourne |
| 2008 | "Blessed Are the Landmines" | Brave Saint Saturn |
| 2007 | "Bloodsports" | New Model Army |
| 2002 | "Boom!" | System of a Down |
| 1992 | "The Bravery of Being Out of Range" | Roger Waters |
| 2006 | "Brother's Song" | Brand New |
| 2005 | "Camilo" | State Radio |
| 2008 | "Can't Happen Here" | Atreyu |
| 2004 | "Caped Crusader" | Jello Biafra with the Melvins |
| 2007 | "Capital G" | Nine Inch Nails |
| 2007 | "Captain Sterling's Little Problem" | The Coup |
| 2008 | "Cheney's Toy" | James McMurtry |
| 2004 | "Cinnamon Girl" | Prince |
| 2009 | "Civilian Ways" | Rancid |
| 2007 | "Clenching the Fists of Dissent" | Machine Head |
| 2004 | "Condi, Condi" | Steve Earle |
| 2008 | "Confrontation" | OTEP |
| 2009 | "Contractor" | Lamb of God |
| 2004 | "Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums" | A Perfect Circle |
| 2007 | "Dad's Gonna Kill Me" | Richard Thompson |
| 2006 | "Dangerous Game" | Bill Madden |
| 2007 | "Dark Side of the Sun" | Tori Amos |
| 2004 | "Day After Tomorrow" | Tom Waits |
| 2007 | "Dead Man Walking" | Bloodsimple |
| 2004 | "Dear America" | N.EX.T (featuring Psy) |
| 2007 | "Dear Mr. President" | Pink |
| 2004 | "Deja Vu (All Over Again)" | John Fogerty |
| 1991 | "Desert Angel" | Stevie Nicks |
| 2005 | "Devils & Dust" | Bruce Springsteen |
| 2008 | "Devour" | Shinedown |
| 1991 | "Die for Oil Sucker" | Jello Biafra |
| 2006 | "Dirty Bombs" | Body Count |
| 2005 | "Dirty Harry" | Gorillaz |
| 2002 | "Don't Bomb When You're the Bomb" | Blur |
| 2007 | "Don't Make Me a Target" | Spoon |
| 2008 | "Down From the Sky" | Trivium |
| 1993 | "A Drug Against War" | KMFDM |
| 2008 | "The Drums of War" | Jackson Browne |
| 1999 | "Easily" | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| 2004 | "The Empire Strikes First" | Bad Religion |
| 2007 | "Empty Walls" | Serj Tankian |
| 2003 | "Ether" | Nothingface |
| 2006 | "Everybody's Gone to War" | Nerina Pallot |
| 2006 | "Exit Strategy" | Valient Thorr |
| 2003 | "Façade of Reality" | Epica |
| 2003 | "Fall Dog Bombs the Moon" | David Bowie |
| 2009 | "Far From Home" | Five Finger Death Punch |
| 2007 | "A Farewell to Arms" | Machine Head |
| 1992 | "Afraid to Shoot Strangers" | Iron Maiden |
| 1991 | "Fertile Crescent" | Bad Religion |
| 2004 | "Final Straw" | R.E.M. |
| 2006 | "Final Transmission" | Street Dogs |
| 2006 | "For the Greater Good of God" | Iron Maiden |
| 2003 | "Franco Un-American" | NOFX |
| 2008 | "Friends in the Armed Forces" | Thursday |
| 2005 | "Frontlines" | Soulfly |
| 2009 | "Fuck You" | Lily Allen |
| 2006 | "Fun And Games" | Barenaked Ladies |
| 2007 | "George W. Told the Nation" | Tom Paxton |
| 2006 | "The Getaway" | Voivod |
| 2005 | "God's Army" | Smile Empty Soul |
| 2003 | "Good Song" | Blur |
| 2009 | "Ground Zero" | Chris Cornell |
| 1994 | "Gulf War Song" | Moxy Früvous |
| 2007 | "Gunslinger" | Avenged Sevenfold |
| 2008 | "Hammerhead" | The Offspring |
| 2005 | "The Hand That Feeds" | Nine Inch Nails |
| 2007 | "Hands Held High" | Linkin Park |
| 2006 | "Hard-On for War" | Mudhoney |
| 2006 | "Harrowdown Hill" | Thom Yorke |
| 1992 | "Heaven Is Falling" | Bad Religion |
| 2012 | "Hell Broke Luce" | Tom Waits |
| 1992 | "Hero" | Ministry |
| 2008 | "Hero of War" | Rise Against |
| 2008 | "Hey Ma" | James |
| 1991 | "Highwire" | The Rolling Stones |
| 2004 | "Holiday" | Green Day |
| 2006 | "The Holidays Are Here (And We're Still at War)" | Brett Dennen |
| 1991 | "Holy War" | Matthew Sweet |
| 2008 | "Home Front" | Drive-By Truckers |
| 2004 | "Home to Houston" | Steve Earle |
| 1991 | "How Much Longer" | Paul Leary |
| 2007 | "I Can't Take It No More" | John Fogerty |
| 2003 | "I Will" | Radiohead |
| 2006 | "If This Is Goodbye" | Mark Knopfler with Emmylou Harris |
| 2004 | "If Wishes Were Horses" | David Baerwald |
| 2007 | "Illegal Attacks" | Ian Brown |
| 2003 | "In a World Gone Mad" | Beastie Boys |
| 2003 | "Into the Fire" | Bruce Springsteen |
| 2006 | "Is It Any Wonder?" | Keane |
| 2002 | "Jacob's Ladder" | Chumbawamba |
| 2002 | "Jerusalem" | Steve Earle |
| 2002 | "John Walker's Blues" | Steve Earle |
| 2009 | "Kid Next Door" | The Bottle Rockets |
| 2004 | "Kimdir O" | Barış Akarsu |
| 2007 | "Last to Die" | Bruce Springsteen |
| 2004 | "Leaving Beirut" | Roger Waters |
| 2004 | "Left Right" | The Chemical Brothers |
| 2004 | "Let Them Eat War" | Bad Religion |
| 2011 | "Let's Be Real" | Soulja Boy |
| 2003 | "Let's Get Free" | Sheryl Crow |
| 2006 | "Let's Impeach the President" | Neil Young |
| 2002 | "Let's Roll" | Neil Young |
| 2006 | "Letter From Iraq" | Bouncing Souls |
| 2004 | "Letters From Home" | John Michael Montgomery |
| 2006 | "Lift the Veil, Kiss the Tank" | The Blood Brothers |
| 2006 | "Light Up Ya Lighter" | Michael Franti |
| 2007 | "The Little Things Give You Away" | Linkin Park |
| 2008 | "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" | Kevin Devine |
| 2001 | "Makeshift Patriot" | Sage Francis |
| 2006 | "Mama" | Godsmack |
| 2004 | "The Man Who Would Be King" | Dio |
| 2002 | "Manhattan-Kaboul" | Axelle Red and Renaud |
| 2004 | "The Mob Goes Wild" | Clutch |
| 2004 | "Mosh" | Eminem |
| 2003 | "New Killer Star" | David Bowie |
| 2006 | "No End in Sight" | Toto (band) |
| 2006 | "No More" | Bob Seger |
| 2005 | "No Sure Way" | Loudon Wainwright III |
| 2005 | "No Time Flat" | Kevin Devine |
| 2003 | "No War" | Esham |
| 2003 | "Not in My Name" | Saul Williams |
| 2003 | "Nothing Man" | Bruce Springsteen |
| 2004 | "Now You've Got Something to Die For" | Lamb of God |
| 2011 | "On the Backs of Angels" | Dream Theater |
| 2007 | "On With the Song" | Mary Chapin Carpenter |
| 2003 | "Out of Time" | Blur |
| 2005 | "Overburdened" | Disturbed |
| 2003 | "Paradise" | Bruce Springsteen |
| 2009 | "People of the Lie" | KMFDM |
| 2002 | "Politik" | Coldplay |
| 2003 | "The Price of Oil" | Billy Bragg |
| 2006 | "Pulse of the Maggots" | Slipknot |
| 2017 | "Refuge" | Steven Wilson |
| 2004 | "Rich Man's War" | Steve Earle |
| 2002 | "The Rising" | Bruce Springsteen |
| 2007 | "Rumors of War" | High on Fire |
| 2007 | "S-O-R-R-Y" | The Proclaimers |
| 2005 | "Sacred Lie" | Disturbed |
| 2005 | "Sacrificed Sons" | Dream Theater |
| 2006 | "Shock And Awe" | Neil Young |
| 2003 | "Sick City Sometimes" | Buzzcocks |
| 2005 | "Sixteen Military Wives" | The Decemberists |
| 2002 | "Skylines And Turnstiles" | My Chemical Romance |
| 1991 | "Slap Leather" | James Taylor |
| 2008 | "Sleep Through the Static" | Jack Johnson |
| 2005 | "The Sodom And Gomorrah Show" | Pet Shop Boys |
| 2014 | "A Song to Stifle Imperial Progress" | The Used |
| 2002 | "Square Dance" | Eminem |
| 2007 | "Stand Up" | Flobots |
| 2002 | "Still Waiting" | Sum 41 |
| 1992 | "Such a War Has Never Been" | Les Barker/Martin Carthy |
| 2004 | "Support Our Troops OH! (Black Angels OH!)" | Xiu Xiu |
| 2007 | "Sweet Neo Con" | The Rolling Stones |
| 2008 | "That Man I Shot" | Drive-By Truckers |
| 2003 | "This Is War" | Smile Empty Soul |
| 2009 | "This Is War" | Thirty Seconds to Mars |
| 2016 | "The Threat Is Real" | Megadeth |
| 2004 | "To Kill the Child" | Roger Waters |
| 1992 | "Too Much Rope" | Roger Waters |
| 2006 | "Trot Out the Dead" | Hammers of Misfortune |
| 1994 | "Turkey Shoot" | Killdozer |
| 2005 | "Twenty" | Robert Cray |
| 2006 | "Two Weeks From Twenty" | Yellowcard |
| 2004 | "Unknown Soldier" | The Casualties |
| 2011 | "Victory Stinks" | Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine |
| 2006 | "Waiting on the World to Change" | John Mayer |
| 2003 | "Walk On" | Hilltop Hoods |
| 2007 | "War" | Emigrate |
| 1994 | "War Again" | Oingo Boingo |
| 2003 | "War All the Time" | Thursday (band) |
| 2002 | "War on War" | Wilco |
| 1992 | "Wargasm" | L7 |
| 2008 | “Warm Winter” | Seth Sentry |
| 2012 | "Warzone" | Pagoda |
| 2013 | "Waves" | Portugal. the Man |
| 2004 | "We're All to Blame" | Sum 41 |
| 2003 | "What Are We Fighting For" | Live |
| 2005 | "When the President Talks to God" | Bright Eyes |
| 2004 | "Where Is the Love?" | The Black Eyed Peas (Featuring Justin Timberlake) |
| 2001 | "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)" | Alan Jackson |
| 2006 | "Where'd You Go" | Fort Minor |
| 2007 | "Would You Be Impressed" | Streetlight Manifesto |
| 2010 | "White Flag Warrior" | Flobots ft. Tim McIlrath |
| 2007 | "White People for Peace" | Against Me! |
| 2011 | "Words I Never Said" | Lupe Fiasco |
| 2006 | "World Wide Suicide" | Pearl Jam |
| 2003 | "WWIII" | KMFDM |
| 1992 | "Yellow Ledbetter" | Pearl Jam |
| 2006 | "Yellowcake" | Ministry |
| 2007 | "Yo George" | Tori Amos |
| 1991 | "You Shoulda Killed Me Last Year" | Ice-T |
| 2003 | "Your Silence" | Suicide Machines |
| 2005 | "Zerstören" | Rammstein |

## Israeli–Palestinian conflict

| Year | Song | Artist |
| 2019 | "Cavalry" | Mashrou' Leila |
| 2024 | "Deira" | Saint Levant & MC Abdul |
| 1998 | "Every Grain of Palestinian Sand" | Muslimgauze |
| 2024 | "From the River (من النهر)" | Ethel Cain |
| 2024 | "From the River to the Sea" | Sister Wife Sex Strike |
| 2024 | "Hind's Hall" | Macklemore |
| 2021 | "Inn Ann" | Daboor & Shabjdeed |
| 2002 | "Intifada" | Ska-P |
| 1995 | "Israel's Son" | Silverchair |
| 2024 | "Karmageddon" | Iyah May |
| 2001 | "Min Erhabi" | DAM |
| 2008 | "One Day" | Matisyahu |
| 2024 | "Palestine Will Rise" | Abe Batshon, Samer & Sammy Shiblaq |
| 2013 | "Qabl W Ba'l" | Muqata'a |
| 2023 | "Rajieen" | Multiple artists |
| 1969 | "Shir LaShalom" | The Nahal Band |
| 1988 | "Under Sions Kalla Stjärna" | Björn Afzelius |
| 2024 | "Voice of a Child" | Eric Clapton |
| 2024 | "War Isn't Murder" | Welles (musician) |
| 1985 | "Ya Falasteeniyah" | Sheikh Imam |
| 1967 | "Zahrat al-Mada'en" | Fairuz |

## Russian invasion of Ukraine

| Year | Song | Artist |
| 2022 | "12" | Morgenshtern |
| 2022 | "Buczy" | Pidżama Porno |
| 2023 | "Crushed" | Imagine Dragons |
| 2022 | "Don't Give Up" | Erekle Getsadze and Helen Kalandadze |
| 2022 | "Не стреляйте" ("Don’t Shoot") | Zemfira |
| 2022 | "Freedom" | Tvorchi |
| 2023 | "GASOLINE" | Måneskin |
| 2022 | "Generation Cancellation" | Little Big |
| 2022 | "Hey, Hey, Rise Up!" | Pink Floyd ft. Andriy Khlyvnyuk |
| 2022 | "I'm Alive" | Ruslana |
| 2022 | "Imagine" | Julian Lennon ft. Nuno Bettencourt |
| 2022 | "Kalyna" | Go_A |
| 2022 | "Love Is All We Got" | The Roop |
| 2022 | "Mistsya shchaslyvykh lyudey" (Місця щасливих людей) | Skryabin |
| 2023 | "Mama ŠČ!" | Let 3 |
| 2022 | "Nasze Domy" | Kalush Orchestra and Szpaku |
| 2022 | "Ne zalyshay" (Не залишай) | Anna Trincher |
| 2022 | "Nezlamna" (Незламна) | Zlata Dziunka |
| 2022 | "Oyda (song)" | Oxxxymiron |
| 2023 | "PODNHA" ("Motherland") | Zemfira |
| 2022 | "Soldier" | Manizha |
| 2022 | "Stefania" | Kalush Orchestra |
| 2023 | "Stiny" (Стіни) | Kalush Orchestra and Jerry Heil |
| 2023 | "Tango" | Tananai |
| 2022 | "What They Fighting For?" | EES ft. Ras Sheehama |
| 2022 | "Zabavy" | Jars |

## Anti-draft

| Year | Song | Artist |
| 1967 | "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" | Arlo Guthrie |
| 1989 | "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" | Public Enemy |
| 1974 | "Botas Locas" | Sui Generis |
| 1980 | "The Call Up" | The Clash |
| 1965 | "Draft Dodger Rag" | Phil Ochs |
| 1967 | "Draft Morning" | The Byrds |
| 1969 | "Draft Resister" | Steppenwolf |
| 1969 | "Fortunate Son" | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| 1981 | "I Don't Wanna Get Drafted" | Frank Zappa |
| 1986 | "Nein, meine Söhne geb' ich nicht" ("No, I Will Not Give [You] My Sons") | Reinhard Mey |
| 1971 | "One Man Rock And Roll Band" | Roy Harper |
| 1994 | "Refuse/Resist" | Sepultura |
| 1991 | "Sgt. Baker" | Primus |
| 1984 | "State of the Nation" | Industry |
| 2002 | "Square Dance" | Eminem |
| 1967 | "Take it Back" | Cream |
| 1990 | "Train" | Uncle Tupelo |
| 1982 | "War Party" | Eddy Grant |
| 1980 | "When Ya Get Drafted" | Dead Kennedys |

## Traditional Music

Apart from the various genres of modern music, some traditional and contemporary folk songs reflect the futile efforts of war and the attitudes of objectors prior to the major wars of the 20th century. Some of these include:
* "Ain't Gonna Study War No More" also known as "Down by the Riverside", has a similar tune to "Hand Me Down, My Walking Cane," – African-American traditional anti-war song recorded by The Weavers and many others.
* "Arthur McBride" – While first curated in the 19th century, this song likely came into existence during the 17th century in response to the War of the Grand Alliance, or especially the Williamite War in Ireland, after which the Irish Jacobite army was sent to France as agreed in the Treaty of Limerick on October 3, 1691.
* "The Cruel War" – Made famous in its current form by Pete Seeger and Peter Paul and Mary, this anti-war song has roots at least as far back as the American Civil War, and can probably be traced to an older English song.
* "Ich bin Soldat, doch bin ich es nicht gerne" de – German song popular during the Franco-Prussian War, tells of the futility of being a soldier, and ends with a call for reconciliation between nations and the overthrow of tyrants.
* "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" – Irish traditional anti-war and anti-recruiting song that was the basis for the song "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", and recorded as "Fighting for Strangers" by Steeleye Span.
* "Join the British Army" – Irish rebel song, recorded by Ewan MacColl and the Dubliners.
* "Kannoneer Jabůrek" is a popular Czech song mocking war heroism, referring to the events of the 1866 Austro-Prussian War
* "Lincoln's Army" - the Irish Rovers
* "Lowlands of Holland" — Martin Carthy
* "Mrs. McGrath" is an Irish song describing a young man named Ted who enters the British Army and returns seven years later having lost his legs to a cannonball while fighting against Napoleon presumably at the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro (fought between 3 and 5 May 1811). Bruce Springsteen recorded a version of this song on his 2006 album We Shall Overcome: the Seeger Sessions, and it appears on the subsequent live 2007 album Bruce Springsteen with the Sessions Band: Live in Dublin

## Musicals

| Year | Title | Artist | Theme |
| 1967 | Hair | Gerome Ragni, James Rado, and Galt MacDermot | The Vietnam War |
| 1936 | Johnny Johnson | Kurt Weill | World War I |
| 1959 | The Sound of Music | Rodgers & Hammerstein | World War II |
| 1989 | Miss Saigon | Claude-Michel Schönberg | The Vietnam War |
| 2016 | Mula Sa Buwan | Myke Salomon | World War II |
| 1963 | Oh, What a Lovely War! | Joan Littlewood | World War I |