The article examines the issues of educating the moral and aesthetic ideal of the Russian, Soviet and modern Russian officer as an important component of his moral and aesthetic culture by means of domestic cinematography, reveals the process of displaying heroic-patriotic and military issues in domestic cinematography, which has gone through several stages in its development, each of which had distinctive features and characteristics. They were determined by the general level of development of cinema in the country, the impact of economic, political, social conditions, as well as the specifics of society’s attitude towards the Armed Forces.