List of World War I films

This is a list of World War I films.

A staged scene from
The Battle of the Somme

Feature films

Year	Country	Main title (alternative title)	Original title (original script)	Director	Subject	*	☞
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	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 fiancée 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	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	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	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		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	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	Goodbye Christopher Robin		Simon Curtis	A. A. Milne	D
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	Lieutenant 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	US Germany	All Quiet on the Western Front	Im Westen nicht Neues (in German)	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.

Television films and series

Year	Country	Main title	Original title	Director	Subject	*	☞
1966	West Germany Netherlands	The Mata Hari Case†·	Der Fall Mata Hari	Paul Verhoeven	Spy Mata Hari	D
1974	UK	Fall of Eagles (miniseries)		John Elliot (creator)	The Habsburgs, the Hohenzollerns and the Romanovs to 1918	D, R
1976	US	Once an Eagle (miniseries)		Richard Michaels, E. W. Swackhamer	Two US Army officers	D, R	N
1977	UK	Wings		Jim Goddard Gareth Davis Donald McWhinnie Desmond Davis	Two British fighter pilots on the Western Front	D
1979	US UK	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	UK	Blackadder Goes Forth		Richard Boden	British soldiers in Flanders	C
1992	US	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "London, May 1916" (aired March 11)		Carl Schultz	Wartime London	A, R
1992	US	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Verdun, September 1916" (aired March 25)		Rene Manzor	The Battle of Verdun	A, D
1992	US	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "German East Africa, December 1916" (aired April 1)		Simon Wincer	Colonial war in the Belgian Congo	A, D
1992	US	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Congo, January 1917" (aired April 8)		Simon Wincer	Albert Schweitzer in wartime Gabon	D
1992	US	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Austria, March 1917" (aired September 21)		Vic Armstrong	The Sixtus Affair	A
1992	US	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Somme, early August 1916" (aired September 28)		Simon Wincer	The Battle of the Somme	A, D
1992	US	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Germany, Mid-August 1916" (aired October 5)		Simon Wincer	Prison camps in Germany	A
1992	US	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Barcelona, May 1917" (aired October 12)		Terry Jones	Espionage in neutral Spain	C
1993	US	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Princeton, February 1916" (aired March 20)		Joe Johnston	German saboteurs in America	A
1993	US	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Petrograd, July 1917" (aired March 27)		Simon Wincer	Petrograd July Days	D
1993	US	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Northern Italy, June 1918" (aired April 17)		Bille August	Ernest Hemingway in the Italian front	C
1993	US	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	US	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Ireland, April 1916" (aired June 12)		Gillies MacKinnon	The Easter Rising	A
1993	US	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Paris, October 1916" (aired July 10)		Nicolas Roeg	Spy Mata Hari	D, R
1993	US	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Istanbul, September 1918" (aired July 17)		Mike Newell	Espionage during the Fall of the Ottoman Empire	D
1993	US	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Paris, May 1919" (aired July 24)		David Hare	The Treaty of Versailles	D
1995	US	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	US	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	US	Truman		Frank Pierson	Harry S. Truman, US Army	D	B
1996	US	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Prague, August 1917" (unaired)		Robert Young	Espionage, Franz Kafka	C
1996	US	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Palestine, October 1917" and "Palestine 1917" (unaired)		Simon Wincer	The Battle of Beersheba	A
1996	US	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Morocco 1917" (unaired)		Michael Schultz	The Zaian Revolt	A, R
1999	UK US	All the King's Men		Julian Jarrold	The Sandringham Company	D	B
2001	US	The Lost Battalion		Russell Mulcahy	The Lost Battalion	A, D
2002	US	The Man Who Saved Christmas		Sturla Gunnarsson	Alfred Carlton Gilbert	A, D
2003	UK	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	UK	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	UK	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	UK	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	UK	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	UK	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	UK	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	UK	Our World War			British forces in WWI	D
2014	UK 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		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

* 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	Director	Subject
1960	US	The Twilight Zone "The Last Flight" (1960 episode)	William Claxton	A pilot time travels from World War I
1964	US	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	UK	Biggles	John Hough	A 20th century salesman time-travels back to 1917 and meets pilot "Biggles"
1986	US	The Twilight Zone "The Convict's Piano" (1986 episode)	Thomas J. Wright	A convict time travels to World War I
1991	US	Tales from the Crypt "["Yellow"]"	Robert Zemeckis	A US Army general does not wish his son to be seen as a coward
1996	US	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	UK	Deathwatch	Michael J. Bassett	British soldiers find a demonic being in a captured German trench
2017	UK	Doctor Who "Twice Upon a Time" (2017 episode)	Rachel Talalay	Partly set just before the Christmas Truce
2017	US	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	US	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	US	Black Jack Pershing: Love and War		Bernard R. McCoy	John J. Pershing
2018	New Zealand UK	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, from 19th century to 1914.

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	US	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	US	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	US	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.

Grigori Rasputin

Year	Country	Main title	Original title (original script)	Director	Subject	*	☞
1996	US	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 US	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.

This incomplete list is frequently updated to include new information.

See also

• List of World War I video games
• List of World War II films

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.