When we were kids, we used to play war - good guys versus bad - with imaginary guns, storming each other's camps and capturing the enemy. We were too young to comprehend the atrocities associated with what we were replicating because we grew up in a place and an age where war (other than the mutually-assured-destruction kind) was not really on our radar. For us it was just mindless fun.

These days, I guess, it's not politically correct to let your children run around pretending to shoot the neighbours while lobbing fake grenades at the dog. I'm sure most parents would now frown upon their offspring pretending to play terrorist and torturer, especially as none of them are ever likely to choose to play the UN ambassador. As the image of conflict has changed over the decades, so, too, have war movies (or should it be the other way around?).

In case you spent the past year living in a cave, you'll know that (Fox Movies Premium, Saturday at 9pm) chronicles the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his death at the hands of American Navy Seals. This film is a far cry from . Written by Mark Boal and directed by Kathryn Bigelow (who had previously worked together on the 2008 Oscar-winning war film ), stars Jessica Chastain (above; ) as Maya, a young CIA operative who has been reassigned to the United States embassy in Pakistan to work with fellow intelligence specialist Dan (Jason Clarke; 2013's ).