List of World War I films
Appearance
This is a list of World War I films.
Feature films
Year | Country | Main title (Alternative title) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Subject | * | ☞ |
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1917 | US | The Little American | Cecil B. DeMille | An American woman falls in love with both a German and French soldier | A, D | ||
1918 | US | Hearts of the World | D. W. Griffith | A young French couple are torn apart during the war | A, D | ||
1918 | US | My Four Years in Germany | William Nigh | A biopic of James W. Gerard, the U.S. Ambassador to Germany | D | ||
1918 | US | Shoulder Arms | Charlie Chaplin | Doughboy on the Western Front [1] | C | ||
1919 | US | The Lost Battalion | Burton L. King | The film follows the formation of the eponoymous Lost Battalion's formation and battle in October 1918 during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive and features some of the original soldiers as actors. | A | ||
1919 | US | Yankee Doodle in Berlin | F. Richard Jones | Captain Bob White, an American pilot disguises himself as a woman in order to fool and steal an important map from Kaiser Wilhelm and the German Government | C | ||
1919 | France | J'accuse | Abel Gance | It follows a French soldier named François Laurin who enlisted in 1914 and is eventually consumed by the war. | D, A | ||
1921 | US | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Rex Ingram | Argentinian family of mixed Franco-German heritage divided by the war's outbreak | D, R | ||
1922 | US | Smilin' Through | Sidney Franklin | A man haunted by the ghost of his murdered fiancé, raises the fiancé's niece as his own. Once she's an adult, he tries to keep her from marrying the son of the man that killed his fiancé. | D, R | P | |
1925 | US | The Big Parade | King Vidor | US Army's Rainbow Division | D, R | P, N | |
1925 | US | The Dark Angel | George Fitzmaurice | After being blinded in WW1, a man disappears and becomes a famous author. Thinking he's dead, his friend tries to move in on his girl. | R, D, L | P | |
1925 | UK | Ypres | Walter Summers | Battle reconstruction film of the several battles at Ypres. | |||
1926 | US | The Better 'Ole | Charles Reisner | D, C | P | ||
1926 | US | What Price Glory? | Raoul Walsh | Rival United States Marines sergeants in France | D, C | P | |
1926 | UK | Mons | Walter Summers | Battle reconstruction of the BEF 1914 retreat from Mons | D, A | ||
1927 | UK | Roses of Picardy | Maurice Elvey | In France, an ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son. | D | N | |
1927 | US | Hotel Imperial | Mauritz Stiller | An Austrian officer separated from his army hides in the hotel of a frontier town occupied by the Russians with the help of the Hungarian chambermaid | D, R | P | |
1927 | US | Wings | William A. Wellman | Two American pilots on the Western Front | D, R | ||
1927 | US | Barbed Wire | Rowland V. Lee | Anti-war romance. A French farm girl and a German POW fall in love. | D, R | N | |
1927 | US | Two Arabian Knights | Lewis Milestone | Two American soldiers are captured by the Germans on the Western Front and escape a POW camp only to stumble into further life-threatening adventures when they come across an Arabian king's daughter while on the lam. | C, D, R | ||
1928 | Canada | Carry on, Sergeant! | Bruce Bairnsfather | Canadian soldier and French waitress | R | ||
1928 | UK | Dawn | Herbert Wilcox | Nurse Edith Cavell | D | ||
1928 | US | Four Sons | John Ford | Four Bavarian brothers, in the German and American armies | D | ||
1928 | US | Finders Keepers | Wesley Ruggles & Otis B. Thayer | C | |||
1928 | US | The Legion of the Condemned | William A. Wellman | Four young men from various walks of life sign up for the Lafayette Escadrille, known as "The Legion of the Condemned" | A, D, R, L | ||
1929 | UK | Lost Patrol | Walter Summers | A British patrol is cornered at an oasis by enemy Arab tribesmen during the Mesopotamian campaign | A, D | N | |
1929 | US | She Goes to War | Henry King | A young woman disguises herself as a man and follows her fiancéé into the trenches during World War I to find out what war is really like. | D | ||
1930 | UK | The W Plan | Victor Saville | A British spy helps prisoners of war destroy Germans during WW1 | A | ||
1930 | US | Journey's End | James Whale | British infantry on the Western Front | D | P | |
1930 | US | All Quiet on the Western Front | Lewis Milestone | German infantry on the Western Front | D | N | |
1930 | US | A Man from Wyoming | Rowland V. Lee | D, R | N | ||
1930 | US | Inside the Lines | Roy Pomeroy | During WW1, the paths of an officer in the English secret service and a German spy converge in Gibraltar. | D | P | |
1930 | US | Anybody's War | Lloyd Corrigan | Two blackfaced men and their dog get talked into joining WW1 | C | ||
1930 | US | The Dawn Patrol | Howard Hawks | RFC pilots on the Western Front | A | ||
1930 | US | Doughboys | Edward Sedgwick | A, C | |||
1930 | US | Half Shot at Sunrise | Paul Sloane | MPs in Paris chase two AWOL doughboys posing as officers with the colonel's daughter. | C | ||
1930 | US | Hell's Angels | Howard Hughes Edmund Goulding (uncredited) James Whale (uncredited) |
RFC pilots on the Western Front | A | ||
1930 | US | War Nurse | Edgar Selwyn | Women from various backgrounds volunteer as nurses in France at the outbreak of World War I | D, R | ||
1930 | Weimar Republic | Westfront 1918 | Vier von der Infanterie | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | German infantry on the Western Front | D | |
1931 | US | Seas Beneath | John Ford | USN mystery ship seeks German U-boat | A | ||
1931 | US | Dishonored | Josef von Sternberg | Espionage | A, D | ||
1931 | US | Born to Love | Paul L. Stein | A war officer who is thought dead returns to the woman he loves, only to find she has remarried. | R, D | ||
1931 | US | A Woman of Experience | The Registered Woman | Harry Joe Brown | During World War I, a woman is rejected for volunteer work because of her dubious reputation, but that same reputation gets her recruited as a spy for Austria. | D | P |
1931 | US | Chances | Allan Dwan | Two brothers on leave, fall for the same girl in World War I London. | D, R | N | |
1931 | US | The Gay Diplomat | Richard Boleslawski | A Russian captain frequents drawing rooms of WW1 Bucharest to find a female spy. | D, R | S | |
1931 | US | The Last Flight | William Dieterle | After World War I, three pilots suffering from shell shock, band together in Paris. Feeling they have no future, the men are constantly drunk. They meet and invite a wealthy but aimless woman into their group. | D | N | |
1931 | US | Waterloo Bridge | James Whale | Soldier meets chorus girl turned prostitute in London during an air raid. | D, R | P | |
1931 | US | Mata Hari | George Fitzmaurice | Spy Mata Hari | D, R | ||
1931 | Weimar Republic | Hell on Earth | Niemandsland | Victor Trivas | Soldiers from opposing sides trapped together. | D | |
1931 | Weimar Republic | Mountains on Fire | Berge in Flammen | Karl Hartl Luis Trenker |
An Italian and an Austrian climbers find themselves fighting on different sides | D, A | N |
1932 | France | Wooden Crosses | Les Croix de bois | Raymond Bernard | D, A | N | |
1932 | US | Cock of the Air | Tom Buckingham | An opera diva sets her sights on a womanizing Army officer. | C, R | ||
1932 | US | Sky Devils | Ground Hogs | Edward Sutherland & Busby Berkeley | Draft dodger blunders into a warzone | C | |
1932 | US | Pack Up Your Troubles | George Marshall Raymond McCarey |
C | N | ||
1932 | US | Smilin' Through | Sidney Franklin | A man haunted by the ghost of his murdered fiancé, raises the fiancé's niece as his own. Once she's an adult, he tries to keep her from marrying the son of the man that killed his fiancé. | D, R | P | |
1932 | US | A Farewell to Arms | Frank Borzage | American soldier and British nurse | D, R | N | |
1932 | US | Rasputin and the Empress | Richard Boleslawski | Grigori Rasputin | D, R | N | |
1932 | Weimar Republic | Cruiser Emden | Kreuzer Emden | Louis Ralph | SMS Emden | D | |
1932 | Weimar Republic Switzerland |
Tannenberg | Tannenberg | Heinz Paul | The Battle of Tannenberg | A | |
1933 | US | Private Jones | Russell Mack | An unwilling American is drafted to fight Germans after the US enters the war in 1917. | C | ||
1933 | US | Today We Live | Howard Hawks Richard Rosson |
A naval officer and an aviator compete for the same beautiful young woman. | D, R | A, S | |
1933 | US | The Eagle and the Hawk | Stuart Walker | Film follows two rival fighter pilots as one of them starts to crack and pays the price for glory. | A, D | ||
1933 | US | Hell Below | Pigboats | Jack Conway | Submarine warfare on the Adriatic Sea. | D, A, R | N |
1933 | US | Storm at Daybreak | Richard Boleslawski | Romance and intrigue in a Hungarian town with a Serbian mayor, from the assassination of the Archduke to the aftermath of the war. | D, A | P | |
1933 | US | Captured! | Roy Del Ruth | Allied soldiers in a German POW camp | D | S | |
1933 | US | Ace of Aces | J. Walter Ruben | The film explores how war can turn a man's moral compass from pacifism to warmonger. | D, A | S | |
1933 | US | After Tonight | George Archainbaud | A Russian spy and an Austrian captain fall in love during WW1. | R | S | |
1933 | US | Ever in My Heart | Archie Mayo | Romance and espionage in WW1 | D, R | A, S | |
1934 | US | The Lost Patrol | John Ford | Remake of Lost Patrol | A, D | N | |
1934 | US | Keep 'Em Rolling | Rodney | George Archainbaud | WW1 Doughboy disobeys orders to save the condemned cavalry horse that saved his life. | C, D | S |
1934 | US | Stamboul Quest | Sam Wood | During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for German intelligence. | D, R | ||
1934 | US | The World Moves On | John Ford | A, D | N | ||
1935 | UK | Brown on Resolution | Walter Forde Anthony Asquith |
Story of heroism in the Navy during World War I. A captain's illegitimate son holds a German cruiser at bay with a rifle. | D | ||
1935 | US | The Dark Angel | Sidney A. Franklin | After being blinded in WW1, a man disappears and becomes a famous author. Thinking he's dead, the girl he loves marries his cousin. | D, R | P | |
1935 | US | The Last Outpost | Charles Barton Louis J. Gasnier |
A | |||
1935 | US | Rendezvous | William K. Howard | Espionage | D | ||
1936 | UK | Secret Agent | Alfred Hitchcock | Espionage | D | ||
1936 | US | Sons O' Guns | Lloyd Bacon | Theatre actor with no desire to fight in WW1, fakes enlisting to impress his fiancée. Unbeknownst to him, he actually enlists. | C, M | P | |
1936 | US | Suzy | George Fitzmaurice | Espionage | D | ||
1936 | US | The Road to Glory | Howard Hawks | Remake of Les Croix de bois, trench warfare on the Western Front | D | ||
1937 | France | Grand Illusion | La Grande Illusion | Jean Renoir | Two French POWs plot their escape | D | |
1937 | France | Mademoiselle Docteur | Salonique, nid d'espions | G. W. Pabst | During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for German intelligence. | A, D | |
1937 | UK | A Romance in Flanders | Lost on the Western Front | Maurice Elvey | Set during the First World War with the British Expeditionary Force in Flanders. | D, R | |
1937 | UK | Under Secret Orders | Mademoiselle Docteur | Edmond T. Gréville | During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for German intelligence. | A, D | |
1937 | US | Street of Shadows | Mademoiselle Docteur | G. W. Pabst | During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for German intelligence. | A, D | |
1937 | US | They Gave Him a Gun | W. S. Van Dyke | Jimmy is drafted in Fred's troop in WW1 and becomes vicious with his gun, wins a medal, then weds Fred's nurse girlfriend, Rose. Years later after the war, Rose discovers Jimmy is a gangster, has him arrested, and finds a job in Fred's circus as Jimmy escapes, determined to kill Fred. | D | N | |
1937 | US | The Road Back | James Whale | How German soldiers struggle with life in post-war Germany. | D | ||
1938 | US | The Shopworn Angel | H. C. Potter | Shortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends, but a real romance soon begins. | D, R | S | |
1938 | US | Alexander's Ragtime Band | Henry King | A, M | |||
1938 | US | Block-Heads | John G. Blystone | C | |||
1938 | US | Men with Wings | William A. Wellman | US pilot on the Western Front | A | ||
1938 | US | The Dawn Patrol | Edmund Goulding | RFC pilots on the Western Front | A | ||
1938 | France | J'accuse | Abel Gance | A remake of the 1919 original. It follows a French soldier named François Laurin who enlisted in 1914 and is eventually consumed by the war. | D, A | ||
1939 | US | Hotel Imperial | Robert Florey | In a frontier town alternatively occupied by the Austrians and the Russians, a Polish woman joins a hotel as a maid to seek revenge on the Austrian officer that caused her sister's suicide. | D | P | |
1939 | US | Nurse Edith Cavell | Herbert Wilcox | True story of an English nurse caught up in the horrors of the First World War. Working in a Brussels hospital, Edith Cavell becomes sympathetic to the plight of the Belgians. So appalled is she by the German conquerors that she becomes involved with a secret underground resistance movement. | D | ||
1939 | US | The Roaring Twenties | Raoul Walsh | D | |||
1939 | UK | The Spy in Black | Michael Powell | Espionage | A | ||
1940 | US | The Fighting 69th | William Keighley | New York City's 69th Regiment, with Donovan (OSS) and Kilmer (poet) | D | ||
1940 | US | The Great Dictator | Charlie Chaplin | Jewish barber on the Western Front | A | ||
1941 | US | Sergeant York | Howard Hawks | Sgt. Alvin York | A | ||
1942 | US | Yankee Doodle Dandy | Michael Curtiz | George M. Cohan | A | ||
1942 | US | For Me and My Gal | Busby Berkeley | A, M | |||
1943 | UK | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger |
A, D | |||
1943 | US | This Is the Army | Michael Curtiz | A, M | |||
1944 | US | Wilson | Henry King | President Woodrow Wilson | D, R | ||
1951 | UK / US | The African Queen | John Huston | War in German East Africa | A, R | ||
1951 | Italy | The Caiman of the Piave † | Il caimano del Piave | Giorgio Bianchi | Espionage on the front of the Piave river in 1918 | D | |
1951 | Italy | Without a Flag | Senza bandiera | Lionello De Felice | Italian agents discover an Austrian spy ring in Zürich | D | |
1952 | Italy | Brothers of Italy | Fratelli d'Italia | Fausto Saraceni | Nazario Sauro, Istrian Italian, fights against Austria | D | |
1952 | US | What Price Glory | John Ford | American infantry on the Western Front | M | ||
1953 | US | The Royal African Rifles | Lesley Selander | British East Africa | A | ||
1954 | Italy | Woe to the Vanquished Ones † | Guai ai vinti | Raffaello Matarazzo | Austrian occupation troops mistreat Italian women | D | N |
1955 | US | East of Eden | Elia Kazan | American home front | D | ||
1957 | US | A Farewell to Arms | Charles Vidor, John Huston (uncredited) |
American soldier and British nurse | D, R | N | |
1957 | US | Paths of Glory | Stanley Kubrick | French infantry on the Western Front | D | N | |
1959 | Italy | The Great War | La Grande Guerra | Mario Monicelli | The story of an odd couple of army buddies in World War I | D, C | |
1962 | UK / US | Lawrence of Arabia | David Lean | T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt | A | ||
1964 | UK | King & Country | Joseph Losey | British soldier tried for desertion | D | ||
1964 | Yugoslavia | March on the Drina | Marš na Drinu (Марш на Дрину) | Žika Mitrović | Battle of Cer[2] | A, D | |
1964 | France Italy |
Mata Hari, agent H21 | Mata Hari Agent H 21 | Jean-Louis Richard | Spy Mata Hari | D, R | |
1964 | Romania | Forest of the Hanged | Pădurea spânzuraților | Liviu Ciulei | Romanian ethnic officer decorated in the Austro-Hungarian army is torn between remaining loyal to the Habsburgs or deserting to the Romanian Army | D, R | N |
1966 | UK | The Blue Max | John Guillermin | German fighter pilot on the Western Front | A | ||
1966 | France | King of Hearts | Le Roi de Coeur | Philippe de Broca | Inmates of an insane asylum take over a village abandoned during the war | C | |
1969 | Italy Yugoslavia |
Fräulein Doktor | Fräulein Doktor | Alberto Lattuada | Elsbeth Schragmüller | D | |
1969 | UK | Oh! What a Lovely War | Richard Attenborough | Satirical chronicle of the war | M | ||
1970 | US | Darling Lili | Blake Edwards | German female spy in Paris | M | ||
1970 | Italy Yugoslavia |
Many Wars Ago | Uomini Contro | Francesco Rosi | Italian infantry on the Venetian front | D | |
1971 | US | Johnny Got His Gun | Dalton Trumbo | Plight of a seriously wounded soldier in a military hospital | D | N | |
1971 | US | Von Richthofen and Brown | Roger Corman | Air war on the Western Front | A | ||
1971 | UK | Zeppelin | Etienne Périer | British double agent | A, D | ||
1972 | Yugoslavia | Pukovnikovica | Đorđe Kadijević | Waning Austro-Hungarian Empire | D | ||
1976 | UK | Aces High | Jack Gold | RFC on the Western Front | A | ||
1976 | France Ivory Coast |
Black and White in Color | Noirs et Blancs en Couleur | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Impact of the war on the native populations of Africa | C, D | |
1976 | Australia | Break of Day | Ken Hannam | A wounded Gallipoli survivor returns to Australia | D | ||
1976 | UK | Shout at the Devil | Peter R. Hunt | War in East Africa | A | ||
1978 | Romania | Ecaterina Teodoroiu | Dinu Cocea | Ecaterina Teodoroiu | D, L | M | |
1980 | Romania Germany |
The last night of love | Ultima noapte de dragoste | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Young Romanian Army lieutenant between love and jealously, and the duty on the frontline | D, R | N |
1981 | Australia | Gallipoli | Peter Weir | Australian infantry in the Gallipoli campaign | D | ||
1981 | Romania East Germany |
Mercenaries' Trap | Capcana mercenarilor | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Romanian Army in Romanian Front | D | |
1982 | Italy | Porca vacca | Pasquale Festa Campanile | Love, Scams and War on the Italian Front | C, R, D | ||
1983 | Canada | The Wars | Robin Phillips | Canadian soldier on the Western Front | D | N | |
1985 | US | Mata Hari | Curtis Harrington | Spy Mata Hari | D | ||
1987 | Australia | The Lighthorsemen | Simon Wincer | Australian cavalry in the Battle of Beersheba (1917) | D | ||
1987 | Soviet Union | Moonzund | Moonzund (Моонзунд) | Valentin Pikul | Russian Captain and German female spy during the Battle of Moon Sound | D, R | |
1989 | France | Life and Nothing But | La vie et rien d'autre | Bertrand Tavernier | Identification of French soldiers missing in action after the war | D | |
1992 | New Zealand | Chunuk Bair | Dale G. Bradley | Wellington Regiment at the Battle of Gallipoli | D | ||
1992 | Wales[3][4][5] | Hedd Wyn | Paul Turner | Welsh poet Ellis Evans (Hedd Wyn) killed at the Battle of Passchendaele | D | ||
1994 | US | Legends of the Fall | Edward Zwick | Montana family during the early 20th century | D | ||
1996 | Italy | The Border | La Frontiera | Franco Giraldi | Italian officer from Dalmatia deserts the Austrian Army, but is captured and executed | D | N |
1996 | France | Captain Conan | Capitaine Conan | Bertrand Tavernier | French occupation troops in Southeastern Europe after the surrender of Bulgaria | D | |
1996 | US | In Love and War | Richard Attenborough | Ernest Hemingway and Agnes von Kurowsky | R | ||
1997 | UK | Regeneration | Gillies MacKinnon | Siegfried Sassoon | D | N | |
1999 | UK France |
The Trench | William Boyd | British soldiers at the Battle of the Somme | D | ||
1999 | Romania | The Death Triangle | Triunghiul Morţii | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Romanian soldiers in 1917 | D | |
2000 | US | The Legend of Bagger Vance | Robert Redford | ||||
2004 | Canada | A Bear Named Winnie | John Kent Harrison | Winnipeg the Bear | D, F | ||
2004 | France | A Very Long Engagement | Un long dimanche de fiançailles | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Parallel story of a French soldier MIA and his fiancée in rural Brittany | D | |
2004 | US | Company K | Robert Clem | American veteran writes about the company in which he served | D | ||
2005 | Belgium France Germany Romania UK |
Joyeux Noël | Merry Christmas | Christian Carion | Christmas truce of 1914 | D, R | |
2006 | US | Flyboys | Tony Bill | The Lafayette Escadrille | A, D | ||
2006 | Japan | The Ode to Joy | Baruto no Gakuen | Masanobu Deme | German POWs in Japan | D | |
2006 | UK | Quiet Flows the Don | Sergei Bondarchuk | Don Cossacks during the war, the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War | D | N | |
2008 | Russia | Admiral | Admiral (Адмиралъ) | Andrey Kravchuk | Alexander Kolchak | D, R | |
2008 | UK | Einstein and Eddington | Philip Martin | Development of the theory of relativity | D | ||
2008 | Spain[6][7] | Flying Heroes / The Aviators | Cher Ami... ¡y yo! | Miquel Pujol | Animated film. Cher Ami is sent to help an American battalion trapped behind enemy lines. | F | |
2008 | US | Haber | Daniel Ragussis | Fritz Haber | D | ||
2008 | Turkey | 120 | 120 | Özhan Eren | Children supplying munition to the Ottoman troops during the Battle of Sarikamish | D | |
2008 | Canada | Passchendaele | Paul Gross | Canadian infantry on the Western Front, and the Crucified Soldier | D | ||
2008 | Germany UK US |
The Red Baron | [8] | Nikolai Müllerschön | Baron Manfred von Richthofen | D, R | |
2009 | Serbia | St. George Shoots the Dragon | Sveti Georgije ubiva aždahu (Свети Георгије убива аждаху) | Srđan Dragojević | Battle of Cer[9] | D | P |
2009 | Germany Austria France Italy |
The White Ribbon | Das weisse Band – Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (in German) | Michael Haneke | Mysterious happenings in a German village in the lead up to the war | D | |
2010 | Australia | Beneath Hill 60 | Jeremy Sims | Oliver Woodward | D | ||
2010 | Turkey | Veda | Zülfü Livaneli | Salih Bozok with the trace of life with Mustafa Kemal | L | M | |
2011 | Croatia | Josef | Josef | Stanislav Tomić | Croat soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army | A | |
2011 | US / UK | War Horse | Steven Spielberg | Devon youth and his horse on the Western Front | D | C | |
2012 | Turkey | Canakkale 1915 † | Çanakkale 1915 | Yesim Sezgin | Dardanelles campaign and the ensuing Gallipoli campaign, as seen from the Turkish side. | D | |
2012 | UK | Private Peaceful | Pat O'Connor | Devon Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice. | D | C | |
2012 | Turkey | Sons of Çanakkale | Çanakkale Çocukları | Gallipoli campaign: two brothers fight in 2 sides | F, D | C, M | |
2013 | Turkey | The Long Way Home | Eve Dönüş: Sarıkamış 1915 | Alphan Eşeli | Family during the Battle of Sarikamish | D, A | |
2013 | Australia | Forbidden Ground | John Earl Adrian Powers |
Three British soldiers stranded in no man's land | D, A, F, L | P, M | |
2013 | Turkey | Gallipoli: End of the Road | Çanakkale: Yolun Sonu | Kemal Uzun | Turkish sniper during the Gallipoli campaign | D, A | P |
2014 | Italy | Greenery Will Bloom Again | Torneranno i prati | Ermanno Olmi | War on the Asiago plateau at the end of 1917 | D | S |
2014 | Singapore | Hearts from the Somme | James Stevens | Story of friends during the Battle of the Somme | D | ||
2014 | Austria Italy US |
The Silent Mountain | Der stille Berg(in German) La montagna silenziosa (in Italian) |
Ernst Gossner | Austrian soldier fights his way through the Alps to rescue his love and escape the impending explosion that will rock the mountain | D | |
2014 | UK | Testament of Youth | James Kent | Vera Brittain, an independent young woman who abandoned her Oxford studies to become a war nurse | D, R | M | |
2015 | Russia | Battalion | Batal'on (Батальонъ) | Dmitry Meskhiev | 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death | D, R | |
2015 | Italy | Private † | Soldato semplice | Paolo Cevoli | Elementary teacher on the front after the Battle of Caporetto | C | |
2017 | UK | Journey's End | Saul Dibb | British infantry on the Western Front | D | ||
2017 | France | See You Up There | Au revoir là-haut | Albert Dupontel | Lieutnant Pradelle, by ordering a senseless assault, just before the end of the war, destroys lives of Edouard Pericourt and Albert Maillard, who mount a monumental scam after war for surviving | D8d States | |
2018 | UK | The Burying Party | Richard Weston | Wilfred Owen returns to the Somme to follow his subject. | D | ||
2018 | India | Sajjan Singh Rangroot | Pankaj Batra | Indian infantry on the Western front | A,D | ||
2019 | US / UK | Tolkien | Dome Karukoski | J. R. R. Tolkien | D | ||
2019 | UK | 1917 | Sam Mendes | Two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake, are given a mission to cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers, including Blake’s brother. | D | ||
2019 | Latvia | Blizzard of Souls | Dvēseļu putenis | Dzintars Dreibergs | A sixteen-year-old Latvian boy enlists in the national Latvian Riflemen battalions of the Imperial Russian Army to fight the Germans on the Eastern Front, but eventually becomes disillusioned and deflects to take part in the Latvian War of Independence. | D | N |
2021 | UK | The War Below | J.P. Watts | During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front, in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate of the Battle of Messines. | D | ||
2022 | Germany US |
All Quiet on the Western Front | Edward Berger | Set in the closing years of World War I, it follows the life of German soldier Paul Bäumer who, after enlisting in the German Army with his friends, finds himself at risk to the realities of war, shattering their earliest hopes of becoming heroes. | D | N |
- * Genre: Drama, Action/Adventure, Romance, Comedy, Musical, Family, Lost film.
- ☞ Source material: Novel, Play, Memoir, Book (non-fiction), Short story, Children's book, Verse (poetry), Article.
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Television films and series
Year | Country | Main title | Original title | Director | Subject | * | ☞ |
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1966 | West Germany Netherlands |
The Mata Hari Case†· | Der Fall Mata Hari | Paul Verhoeven | Spy Mata Hari | D | |
1974 | United Kingdom | Fall of Eagles (miniseries) | John Elliot (creator) | The Habsburgs, the Hohenzollerns and the Romanovs to 1918 | D, R | ||
1976 | United States | Once an Eagle (miniseries) | Richard Michaels, E. W. Swackhamer | Two US Army officers | D, R | N | |
1977 | United Kingdom | Wings | Jim Goddard Gareth Davis Donald McWhinnie Desmond Davis |
Two British fighter pilots on the Western Front | D | ||
1979 | United States United Kingdom |
All Quiet on the Western Front | Im Westen nichts Neues | Delbert Mann | German infantry on the Western Front | D | N |
1981 | Netherlands | Mata Hari (miniseries) | Mata Hari | John Van de Rest | Spy Mata Hari | D | |
1982 | Australia | 1915 (miniseries) | Di Drew, Chris Thomson |
Two rural Australians join the ANZACs | D | ||
1985 | Australia | Anzacs (miniseries) | Pino Amenta, John Dixon, George Miller |
Australian infantry in Europe | D | ||
1986 | Italy West Germany |
Mino (miniseries) | Mino - Il piccolo alpino(in Italian) Mino – Ein Junge zwischen den Fronten(in German) |
Gianfranco Albano | Italian boy fights with the Alpini | A, D | |
1989 | United Kingdom | Blackadder Goes Forth | Richard Boden | British soldiers in Flanders | C | ||
1992 | United States | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "London, May 1916" (aired March 11) |
Carl Schultz | Wartime London | A, R | ||
1992 | United States | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Verdun, September 1916" (aired March 25) |
Rene Manzor | The Battle of Verdun | A, D | ||
1992 | United States | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "German East Africa, December 1916" (aired April 1) |
Simon Wincer | Colonial war in the Belgian Congo | A, D | ||
1992 | United States | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Congo, January 1917" (aired April 8) |
Simon Wincer | Albert Schweitzer in wartime Gabon | D | ||
1992 | United States | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Austria, March 1917" (aired September 21) |
Vic Armstrong | The Sixtus Affair | A | ||
1992 | United States | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Somme, early August 1916" (aired September 28) |
Simon Wincer | The Battle of the Somme | A, D | ||
1992 | United States | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Germany, Mid-August 1916" (aired October 5) |
Simon Wincer | Prison camps in Germany | A | ||
1992 | United States | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Barcelona, May 1917" (aired October 12) |
Terry Jones | Espionage in neutral Spain | C | ||
1993 | United States | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Princeton, February 1916" (aired March 20) |
Joe Johnston | German saboteurs in America | A | ||
1993 | United States | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Petrograd, July 1917" (aired March 27) |
Simon Wincer | Petrograd July Days | D | ||
1993 | United States | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Northern Italy, June 1918" (aired April 17) |
Bille August | Ernest Hemingway in the Italian front | C | ||
1993 | United States | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Young Indiana Jones and the Phantom Train of Doom" (aired June 5) |
Peter MacDonald | War in German East Africa, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck | A | ||
1993 | United States | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Ireland, April 1916" (aired June 12) |
Gillies MacKinnon | The Easter Rising | A | ||
1993 | United States | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Paris, October 1916" (aired July 10) |
Nicolas Roeg | Spy Mata Hari | D, R | ||
1993 | United States | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Istanbul, September 1918" (aired July 17) |
Mike Newell | Espionage during the Fall of the Ottoman Empire | D | ||
1993 | United States | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Paris, May 1919" (aired July 24) |
David Hare | The Treaty of Versailles | D | ||
1995 | United States | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Young Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Peacock's Eye" (aired January 15) |
Carl Schultz | Armistice with Germany (prologue) |
A | ||
1995 | United States | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Young Indiana Jones and the Attack of the Hawkmen" (aired October 8) |
Ben Burtt | Air war on the Western Front | A | ||
1995 | United States | Truman | Frank Pierson | Harry S. Truman, US Army | D | B | |
1996 | United States | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Prague, August 1917" (unaired) |
Robert Young | Espionage, Franz Kafka | C | ||
1996 | United States | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Palestine, October 1917" and "Palestine 1917" (unaired) |
Simon Wincer | The Battle of Beersheba | A | ||
1996 | United States | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Morocco 1917" (unaired) |
Michael Schultz | The Zaian Revolt | A, R | ||
1999 | United Kingdom United States |
All the King's Men | Julian Jarrold | The Sandringham Company | D | B | |
2001 | United States | The Lost Battalion | Russell Mulcahy | The Lost Battalion | A, D | ||
2002 | United States | The Man Who Saved Christmas | Sturla Gunnarsson | Alfred Carlton Gilbert | A, D | ||
2003 | United Kingdom | The Lost Prince | Stephen Poliakoff | Prince John | C | ||
2005 | Russia | The Fall of the Empire | Гибель Империи (Gibel Imperii) | Vladimir Khotinenko | The Russian Revolution | D | S |
2007 | Italy | Love and War†· | L'amore e la guerra | Giacomo Campiotti | Inspired to Rudyard Kipling's The War in the Mountains and Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms | D | B, N |
2007 | United Kingdom | My Boy Jack | Brian Kirk | Rudyard Kipling's son Jack at the Battle of Loos | D | P, V | |
2007 | Canada | The Great War | Brian McKenna | Canadian infantry on the Western Front | D | ||
2008 | Syria Lebanon United Arab Emirates Qatar |
Lawrence Al Arab | لورانس العرب | Thaer Mousa | T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt | D | M, S |
2009 | Turkey | The Thoroughfare of Çanakkale†· | Çanakkale Geçilmez | Gallipoli campaign: a flashbacks story between two friends (one has died) | M | ||
2012 | United Kingdom | Birdsong | Philip Martin | British officer recounts the days he spent with his lover before the war during the Battle of the Somme | D | N | |
2012 | United Kingdom | Parade's End | Susanna White | D | N | ||
2012 | Russia | Passion for Chapay | Страсты по Чапаю | Future Soviet officer Vasily Chapayev at the World War I | D, A | ||
2013 | United Kingdom | The Wipers Times | Ian Hislop | D, C | |||
2013 | Belgium | In Flanders Fields | In Vlaamse Velden | Jan Matthys | Belgian infantry on the western front | D | |
2013 | Germany | Odyssey of Heroes | Die Männer der Emden | Berengar Pfahl | SMS Emden | D, A | |
2014 | United Kingdom | 37 Days | Justin Hardy | The diplomatic negotiations leading to the First World War. | D | ||
2014 | New Zealand | Field Punishment No 1 | Peter Burger | Four brothers who are conscientious objectors are deported to the front in France and successfully refuse military service and oppose military inhumanity even confronted with cruel field punishment | D | ||
2014 | Australia | ANZAC Girls | Australian women at the Western Front | D | M | ||
2014 | United Kingdom | The Crimson Field | A team of doctors, nurses and women volunteers work together in a tented field hospital to heal the bodies and souls of men wounded in the Great War. | D | |||
2014 | United Kingdom | Our World War (TV series) | British forces in WWI | D | |||
2014 | United Kingdom Poland |
The Passing Bells | Brendan Maher | The series operates in parallel as it follows two teenagers in two countries, one German and one British, who sign up as soldiers at the outbreak of the First World War. | D | ||
2015 | Italy | Mud and Glory - The Great War†· | Fango e gloria - La Grande Guerra | Leonardo Tiberi | Fictional story of the war experiences of the Italian unknown soldier | D | |
2015 | Australia | Deadline Gallipoli | Michael Rymer | The Gallipoli campaign from the point of view of war correspondents Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, Phillip Schuler and Keith Murdoch. | D | ||
2015 | Australia | Gallipoli (miniseries) | Glendyn Ivin | The series centres on 17-year-old Thomas "Tolly" Johnson, who lies about his age so he may enlist with his brother Bevan and ends up fighting at Gallipoli in the campaign that helped create the ANZAC legend. | D | ||
2015 | France | Deserters | Les fusillés | Philippe Triboit | The adventure of two men as they struggle to prove their innocence in front of the firing line during the Great War[10] |
- * Genre: Drama, Action/Adventure, Romance, Comedy, Musical, Family.
- ☞ Source material: Novel, Play, Memoir, Book (non-fiction), Short story, Children's book, Verse (poetry), Article.
(Science) fiction and fantasy
Year | Country | Main title | Original title | Director | Subject | ☞ |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1960 | United States | The Twilight Zone "The Last Flight" (1960 episode) |
William Claxton | A pilot time travels from World War I | ||
1964 | United States | A Carol for Another Christmas | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Daniel Grudge fought in World War I | ||
1969 | United Kingdom | Doctor Who "The War Games" (1969 episode) |
David Maloney | The Doctor and his companions end up in World War I | ||
1986 | United Kingdom | Biggles | John Hough | A 20th century salesman time-travels back to 1917 and meets pilot "Biggles" | ||
1986 | United States | The Twilight Zone "The Convict's Piano" (1986 episode) |
Thomas J. Wright | A convict time travels to World War I | ||
1996 | United States | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Transylvania, January 1918" (unaired episode) |
Dick Maas | Indiana Jones runs into a Romanian general who might be a vampire | ||
2002 | United Kingdom | Deathwatch | Michael J. Bassett | British soldiers find a demonic being in a captured German trench | ||
2017 | United States | Wonder Woman |
Patty Jenkins | Diana Prince fights in World War I |
- ☞ Source material: Novel, Play, Memoir, Book (non-fiction), Short story, Children's book, Verse (poetry), Article.
Documentary
Year | Country | Main title | Original title | Director | Subject |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1916 | United Kingdom | The Battle of the Somme | Geoffrey Malins John McDowell |
British Army at the Battle of the Somme, 1916 | |
1918 | United States | The Sinking of the Lusitania | Winsor McCay | Animated. Sinking of the RMS Lusitania | |
1934 | Italy | Gloria - The Great War †· | Gloria - La grande guerra | Roberto Omegna | Italy in World War I |
2005 | Turkey | Gallipoli | Gelibolu | Tolga Örnek | The Gallipoli campaign, as told by soldiers on both sides |
2014 | France | Apocalypse: World War I | Apocalypse, la Première Guerre mondiale | Daniel Costelle Isabelle Clarke | |
2017 | United States | Black Jack Pershing: Love and War | Bernard R. McCoy | John J. Pershing | |
2018 | New Zealand United Kingdom |
They Shall Not Grow Old | Peter Jackson | ||
2018 | Ukraine | Kruty 1918 | Aleksey Shaparev | ||
2018 | Serbia | The Long Road to War | Dugo putovanje u rat | Miloš Škundrić | The origins and causes of the First World War |
Derived conflicts
Anglo-Irish War and Irish Civil War
Year | Country | Main title | Original title | Director | Subject | * | ☞ |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1941 | Nazi Germany | My Life for Ireland | Mein Leben für Irland | Max W. Kimmich | The son of an Irish rebel is sent to an English boarding school for re-education | D | |
2006 | Ireland United Kingdom |
The Wind That Shakes the Barley | Ken Loach | Two Cork brothers join the IRA | D |
- * Genre: Drama, Action/Adventure, Romance, Comedy, Musical, Family.
- ☞ Source material: Novel, Play, Memoir, Book (non-fiction), Short story, Children's book, Verse (poetry), Article.
Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War
Year | Country | Main title (Alternative title) |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Subject | * | ☞ |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1927 | United States | Mockery | Benjamin Christensen | A mentally challenged peasant saves a countess, then obsesses over her | D | ||
1928 | Soviet Union | October: Ten Days That Shook the World (October) | Oktyabr': Desyat' dney kotorye potryasli mir (Октябрь (Десять дней, которые потрясли мир)) | Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov | October Revolution of 1917 | D | B |
1929 | Soviet Union | Arsenal | Arsenal (Арсенал) / Yanvarskoye vosstaniye v Kiyeve v 1918 godu (Январское восстание в Киеве в 1918 году) | Alexander Dovzhenko | Kiev Arsenal January Uprising in 1918 | ||
1934 | Soviet Union | Chapaev | Chapaev (Чапаев) | Georgi Vasilyev, Sergei Vasilyev | Red Army hero Vasily Chapayev | A | N |
1934 | United States | British Agent | Michael Curtiz | Espionage | D | ||
1937 | United Kingdom | Knight Without Armour (Knight Without Armor) | Jacques Feyder | British agent saves Russian countess from the Bolsheviks | D | N | |
1939 | Soviet Union | Shchors | Shchors (Щорс) | Alexander Dovzhenko, Yuliya Solntseva | Partisan leader Nikolay Shchors | ||
1958 | Soviet Union | And Quiet Flows the Don | Tikhii Don (Тихий Дон) | Sergei Gerasimov | Don Cossack village between 1912 and 1922 | D | |
1967 | Hungary Soviet Union |
The Red and the White | Csillagosok, katonák | Miklós Jancsó | Hungarian Communist volunteers in the Russian Civil War | D | |
1968 | Soviet Union | Two Army Comrades | Служили два товарища | Eugine Karelov | Drama of the Russian Civil War | D | |
1970 | Soviet Union | White Sun of the Desert | Beloye solntse pustyni (Белое солнце пустыни) | Vladimir Motyl | The Basmachi revolt | A | |
1981 | United States | Reds | Warren Beatty | John Reed | D | ||
1992 | Russia France |
The Chekist | Chekist (Чекист) | Aleksandr Rogozhkin | The bloody work and downfall of a Soviet Cheka security official involved in mass executions during the Russian Civil War | D | S |
2005 | Russia | Nine Lives of Nestor Makhno (miniseries) | Devyat zhizney Nestora Makhno (Девять жизней Нестора Махно) | Nikolai Kapta | Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Makhno | D |
- * Genre: Drama, Action/Adventure, Romance, Comedy, Musical, Family.
- ☞ Source material: Novel, Play, Memoir, Book (non-fiction), Short story, Children's book, Verse (poetry), Article.
Year | Country | Main title |
Original title (Original script) |
Director | Subject | * | ☞ |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1996 | United States | Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (TV) | Uli Edel | His last four years (1912–16) | D |
Turkish War of Independence
Year | Country | Main title | Original title | Director | Subject | * | ☞ |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1970 | United Kingdom | You Can't Win 'Em All | Peter Collinson | Two American veterans join a gang of Turkish mercenaries in an escort mission | A | ||
2007 | Turkey | The Last Ottoman: Knockout Ali | Son Osmanlı Yandım Ali | Mustafa Şevki Doğan | Discharged Ottoman Navy veteran joins Mustafa Kemal's army | A | |
2014 | Australia Turkey United States |
The Water Diviner | Russell Crowe | Australian farmer travels to Turkey to try to locate his three missing sons who went missing in the Battle of Gallipoli. | A | N |
- * Genre: Drama, Action/Adventure, Romance, Comedy, Musical, Family.
- ☞ Source material: Novel, Play, Memoir, Book (non-fiction), Short story, Children's book, Verse (poetry), Article.
See also
Notes
- ^† This English language title is a literal translation from its original foreign language title.
This title should always be replaced by an English language release title when that information becomes available.
References
- ^ This film is available at the Internet Archive.
- ^ The film takes its name from the song "Marš na Drinu".
- ^ "The BFI: Hedd Wyn (1992)". British Film Institute website. British Film Institute. 2010. Archived from the original on 17 January 2009. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
- ^ "Media Education Wales: Hedd Wyn (English)". Media Ed website. British Film Institute. 2001. Archived from the original on 10 November 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
- ^ "House of Commons – Culture, Media and Sport – written evidence". UK Parliament website. Parliament of the United Kingdom. 18 September 2003. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
- ^ Official Site
- ^ Credits
- ^ An international co-production in English.
- ^ There is a TV miniseries based on the film.
- ^ Eurochannel. "Deserters - Philippe Triboit - France - Eurochannel". Eurochannel: The European TV channel - European movies, TV series and music. Retrieved 2016-02-10.