List of World War I films

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This is a list of World War I films.

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A staged scene from
The Battle of the Somme

Feature films

YearCountryMain title
(alternative title)		Original title
(original script)		DirectorSubject
1917United States The Little American Cecil B. DeMille An American woman falls in love with both a German and French soldier
1918United States Hearts of the World D. W. Griffith A young French couple are torn apart during the war
1918United States My Four Years in Germany William Nigh A biopic of James W. Gerard, the U.S. Ambassador to Germany
1918United States Shoulder Arms Charlie Chaplin Doughboy on the Western Front [1]
1919United States 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.
1919United States 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
1919France J'accuse Abel Gance It follows a French soldier named François Laurin who enlisted in 1914 and is eventually consumed by the war.
1921United States The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Rex Ingram Argentinian family of mixed Franco-German heritage divided by the war's outbreak
1922United States 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.
1925United States The Big Parade King Vidor US Army's Rainbow Division
1925United States 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.
1925United Kingdom Ypres Walter Summers Battle reconstruction film of the several battles at Ypres.
1926United States The Better 'Ole Charles Reisner
1926United States What Price Glory? Raoul Walsh Rival United States Marines sergeants in France
1926United Kingdom Mons Walter Summers Battle reconstruction of the BEF 1914 retreat from Mons
1927United Kingdom Roses of Picardy Maurice Elvey In France, an ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son.
1927United States 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
1927United States Wings William A. Wellman Two American pilots on the Western Front
1927United States Barbed Wire Rowland V. Lee Anti-war romance. A French farm girl and a German POW fall in love.
1927United States 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.
1928Canada Carry on, Sergeant! Bruce Bairnsfather Canadian soldier and French waitress
1928United Kingdom Dawn Herbert Wilcox Nurse Edith Cavell
1928United States Four Sons John Ford Four Bavarian brothers, in the German and American armies
1928United States Finders Keepers Wesley Ruggles & Otis B. Thayer
1928United States 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"
1929United Kingdom Lost Patrol Walter Summers A British patrol is cornered at an oasis by enemy Arab tribesmen during the Mesopotamian campaign
1929United States 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.
1930United Kingdom The W Plan Victor Saville A British spy helps prisoners of war destroy Germans during WW1
1930United States Journey's End James Whale British infantry on the Western Front
1930United States All Quiet on the Western Front Lewis Milestone German infantry on the Western Front
1930United States A Man from Wyoming Rowland V. Lee
1930United States Inside the Lines Roy Pomeroy During WW1, the paths of an officer in the English secret service and a German spy converge in Gibraltar.
1930United States Anybody's War Lloyd Corrigan Two blackfaced men and their dog get talked into joining WW1
1930United States The Dawn Patrol Howard Hawks RFC pilots on the Western Front
1930United States Doughboys Edward Sedgwick
1930United States Half Shot at Sunrise Paul Sloane MPs in Paris chase two AWOL doughboys posing as officers with the colonel's daughter.
1930United States Hell's Angels Howard Hughes
Edmund Goulding (uncredited)
James Whale (uncredited)		 RFC pilots on the Western Front
1930United States War Nurse Edgar Selwyn Women from various backgrounds volunteer as nurses in France at the outbreak of World War I
1930Weimar Republic Westfront 1918 Vier von der Infanterie Georg Wilhelm Pabst German infantry on the Western Front
1931United States Seas Beneath John Ford USN mystery ship seeks German U-boat
1931United States Dishonored Josef von Sternberg Espionage
1931United States 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.
1931United States 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.
1931United States Chances Allan Dwan Two brothers on leave, fall for the same girl in World War I London.
1931United States The Gay Diplomat Richard Boleslawski A Russian captain frequents drawing rooms of WW1 Bucharest to find a female spy.
1931United States 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.
1931United States Waterloo Bridge James Whale Soldier meets chorus girl turned prostitute in London during an air raid.
1931United States Mata Hari George Fitzmaurice Spy Mata Hari
1931Weimar Republic Hell on Earth Niemandsland Victor Trivas Soldiers from opposing sides trapped together.
1931Weimar Republic Mountains on Fire Berge in Flammen Karl Hartl
Luis Trenker 		An Italian and an Austrian climbers find themselves fighting on different sides
1932France Wooden Crosses Les Croix de bois Raymond Bernard
1932United States Cock of the Air Tom Buckingham An opera diva sets her sights on a womanizing Army officer.
1932United States Sky Devils Ground Hogs Edward Sutherland & Busby Berkeley Draft dodger blunders into a warzone
1932United States Pack Up Your Troubles George Marshall
Raymond McCarey
1932United States 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.
1932United States A Farewell to Arms Frank Borzage American soldier and British nurse
1932United States Rasputin and the Empress Richard Boleslawski Grigori Rasputin
1932Weimar Republic Cruiser Emden Kreuzer Emden Louis Ralph SMS Emden
1932Weimar Republic
Switzerland		 Tannenberg Tannenberg Heinz Paul The Battle of Tannenberg
1933United States Private Jones Russell Mack An unwilling American is drafted to fight Germans after the US enters the war in 1917.
1933United States Today We Live Howard Hawks
Richard Rosson 		A naval officer and an aviator compete for the same beautiful young woman.
1933United States 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.
1933United States Hell Below Pigboats Jack Conway Submarine warfare on the Adriatic Sea.
1933United States 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.
1933United States Captured! Roy Del Ruth Allied soldiers in a German POW camp
1933United States Ace of Aces J. Walter Ruben The film explores how war can turn a man's moral compass from pacifism to warmonger.
1933United States After Tonight George Archainbaud A Russian spy and an Austrian captain fall in love during WW1.
1933United States Ever in My Heart Archie Mayo Romance and espionage in WW1
1934United States The Lost Patrol John Ford Remake of Lost Patrol
1934United States Keep 'Em Rolling Rodney George Archainbaud WW1 Doughboy disobeys orders to save the condemned cavalry horse that saved his life.
1934United States 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.
1934United States The World Moves On John Ford
1935United Kingdom 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.
1935United States 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.
1935United States The Last Outpost Charles Barton
Louis J. Gasnier
1935United States Rendezvous William K. Howard Espionage
1936United Kingdom Secret Agent Alfred Hitchcock Espionage
1936United States 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.
1936United States Suzy George Fitzmaurice Espionage
1936United States The Road to Glory Howard Hawks Remake of Les Croix de bois, trench warfare on the Western Front
1937France Grand Illusion La Grande Illusion Jean Renoir Two French POWs plot their escape
1937United Kingdom A Romance in Flanders Lost on the Western Front Maurice Elvey Set during the First World War with the British Expeditionary Force in Flanders.
1937United Kingdom 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.
1937United States 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.
1937United States 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.
1937United States The Road Back James Whale How German soldiers struggle with life in post-war Germany.
1938United States 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.
1938United States Alexander's Ragtime Band Henry King
1938United States Block-Heads John G. Blystone
1938United States Men with Wings William A. Wellman US pilot on the Western Front
1938United States The Dawn Patrol Edmund Goulding RFC pilots on the Western Front
1938France 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.
1939United States 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.
1939United States 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.
1939United States The Roaring Twenties Raoul Walsh
1939United Kingdom The Spy in Black Michael Powell Espionage
1940United States The Fighting 69th William Keighley New York City's 69th Regiment, with Donovan (OSS) and Kilmer (poet)
1940United States The Great Dictator Charlie Chaplin Jewish barber on the Western Front
1941United States Sergeant York Howard Hawks Sgt. Alvin York
1942United States Yankee Doodle Dandy Michael Curtiz George M. Cohan
1942United States For Me and My Gal Busby Berkeley
1943United Kingdom The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Michael Powell
Emeric Pressburger
1943United States This Is the Army Michael Curtiz
1944United States Wilson Henry King President Woodrow Wilson
1951United Kingdom
United States		 The African Queen John Huston War in German East Africa
1951Italy The Caiman of the Piave † Il caimano del Piave Giorgio Bianchi Espionage on the front of the Piave river in 1918
1951Italy Without a Flag Senza bandiera Lionello De Felice Italian agents discover an Austrian spy ring in Zürich
1952Italy Brothers of Italy Fratelli d'Italia Fausto Saraceni Nazario Sauro, Istrian Italian, fights against Austria
1952United States What Price Glory John Ford American infantry on the Western Front
1953United States The Royal African Rifles Lesley Selander British East Africa
1954Italy Woe to the Vanquished Ones † Guai ai vinti Raffaello Matarazzo Austrian occupation troops mistreat Italian women
1955United States East of Eden Elia Kazan American home front
1955Czechoslovakia The Good Soldier Schweik Jiří Trnka Animated adaptation of The Good Soldier Švejk
1956Czechoslovakia The Good Soldier Schweik Karel Steklý Adaptation of The Good Soldier Švejk
1957United States A Farewell to Arms Charles Vidor,
John Huston (uncredited)		American soldier and British nurse
1957United States Paths of Glory Stanley Kubrick French infantry on the Western Front
1958Czechoslovakia I Dutifully Report Karel Steklý Sequel to The Good Soldier Schweik
1959Italy The Great War La Grande Guerra Mario Monicelli The story of an odd couple of army buddies in World War I
1962United Kingdom
United States		 Lawrence of Arabia David Lean T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt
1964United Kingdom King & Country Joseph Losey British soldier tried for desertion
1964Yugoslavia March on the Drina Marš na Drinu ( Марш на Дрину ) Žika Mitrović Battle of Cer [2]
1964Romania 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
1966United Kingdom The Blue Max John Guillermin German fighter pilot on the Western Front
1966France King of Hearts Le Roi de Coeur Philippe de Broca Inmates of an insane asylum take over a village abandoned during the war
1969Italy
Yugoslavia		 Fräulein Doktor Fräulein Doktor Alberto Lattuada Elsbeth Schragmüller
1969United Kingdom Oh! What a Lovely War Richard Attenborough Satirical chronicle of the war
1970United States Darling Lili Blake Edwards German female spy in Paris
1970Italy
Yugoslavia		 Many Wars Ago Uomini Contro Francesco Rosi Italian infantry on the Venetian front
1971United States Johnny Got His Gun Dalton Trumbo Plight of a seriously wounded soldier in a military hospital
1971United States Von Richthofen and Brown Roger Corman Air war on the Western Front
1971United Kingdom Zeppelin Etienne Périer British double agent
1976United Kingdom Aces High Jack Gold RFC on the Western Front
1976France
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
1976Australia Break of Day Ken Hannam A wounded Gallipoli survivor returns to Australia
1976United Kingdom Shout at the Devil Peter R. Hunt War in East Africa
1981Australia Gallipoli Peter Weir Australian infantry in the Gallipoli campaign
1981Romania
East Germany		 Mercenaries' Trap Capcana mercenarilor Sergiu Nicolaescu Romanian Army in Romanian Front
1982Italy Porca vacca Pasquale Festa Campanile Love, Scams and War on the Italian Front
1983Canada The Wars Robin Phillips Canadian soldier on the Western Front
1985United States Mata Hari Curtis Harrington Spy Mata Hari
1987Australia The Lighthorsemen Simon Wincer Australian cavalry in the Battle of Beersheba (1917)
1987Soviet Union Moonzund Moonzund (Моонзунд) Valentin Pikul Russian Captain and German female spy during the Battle of Moon Sound
1989France Life and Nothing But La vie et rien d'autre Bertrand Tavernier Identification of French soldiers missing in action after the war
1992New Zealand Chunuk Bair Dale G. BradleyWellington Regiment at the Battle of Gallipoli
1992Wales [3] [4] [5] Hedd Wyn Paul Turner Welsh poet Ellis Evans (Hedd Wyn) killed at the Battle of Passchendaele
1994United States Legends of the Fall Edward Zwick Montana family during the early 20th century
1996Italy The Border La Frontiera Franco Giraldi Italian officer from Dalmatia deserts the Austrian Army, but is captured and executed
1996France Captain Conan Capitaine Conan Bertrand Tavernier French occupation troops in Southeastern Europe after the surrender of Bulgaria
1996United States In Love and War Richard Attenborough Ernest Hemingway and Agnes von Kurowsky
1997United Kingdom Regeneration Gillies MacKinnon Siegfried Sassoon
1999United Kingdom
France		 The Trench William Boyd British soldiers at the Battle of the Somme
2000United States The Legend of Bagger Vance Robert Redford
2004France 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
2004United States Company K Robert ClemAmerican veteran writes about the company in which he served
2005Belgium
France
Germany
Romania
United Kingdom		 Joyeux Noël Merry Christmas Christian Carion Christmas truce of 1914
2006United States Flyboys Tony Bill The Lafayette Escadrille
2008Russia Admiral Admiral (Адмиралъ)Andrey Kravchuk Alexander Kolchak
2008United Kingdom Einstein and Eddington Philip Martin Development of the theory of relativity
2008Spain [6] [7] Flying Heroes / The AviatorsCher Ami... ¡y yo!Miquel Pujol Animated film. Cher Ami is sent to help an American battalion trapped behind enemy lines.
2008United States Haber Daniel Ragussis Fritz Haber
2008Turkey 120 120Özhan ErenChildren supplying munition to the Ottoman troops during the Battle of Sarikamish
2008Canada Passchendaele Paul Gross Canadian infantry on the Western Front, and the Crucified Soldier
2008Germany
United Kingdom
United States		 The Red Baron [8] Nikolai Müllerschön Baron Manfred von Richthofen
2009Serbia St. George Shoots the Dragon Sveti Georgije ubiva aždahu (Свети Георгије убива аждаху) Srđan Dragojević Battle of Cer [9]
2009Germany
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
2010Australia Beneath Hill 60 Jeremy Sims Oliver Woodward
2010Turkey Veda Zülfü Livaneli Salih Bozok with the trace of life with Mustafa Kemal
2011Croatia Josef Josef Stanislav Tomić Croat soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army
2011United States
United Kingdom		 War Horse Steven Spielberg Devon youth and his horse on the Western Front
2012Turkey Canakkale 1915 † Çanakkale 1915Yesim Sezgin Dardanelles campaign and the ensuing Gallipoli campaign, as seen from the Turkish side.
2012United Kingdom 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.
2013Turkey The Long Way Home Eve Dönüş: Sarıkamış 1915Alphan EşeliFamily during the Battle of Sarikamish
2013Australia Forbidden Ground John Earl
Adrian Powers		Three British soldiers stranded in no man's land
2013Turkey Gallipoli: End of the Road Çanakkale: Yolun SonuKemal UzunTurkish sniper during the Gallipoli campaign
2014Italy Greenery Will Bloom Again Torneranno i prati Ermanno Olmi War on the Asiago plateau at the end of 1917
2014Jordan
United Kingdom
United Arab Emirates
Qatar		 Theeb Theeb (ذيب) Naji Abu Nowar A young Bedouin boy guides a British officer in a dangerous journey across the desert
2014Austria
Italy
United States		 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
2014United Kingdom Testament of Youth James Kent Vera Brittain, an independent young woman who abandoned her Oxford studies to become a war nurse
2015Russia Battalion Batal'on (Батальонъ)Dmitry Meskhiev 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death
2017United Kingdom Goodbye Christopher Robin Simon Curtis A. A. Milne
2017United Kingdom Journey's End Saul Dibb British infantry on the Western Front
2017France 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
2018India Sajjan Singh Rangroot Pankaj Batra Indian infantry on the Western front
2018United Kingdom The Good Soldier Schweik Christine Edzard Adaptation of The Good Soldier Švejk
2019United States
United Kingdom		 Tolkien Dome Karukoski J. R. R. Tolkien
2019United Kingdom 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.
2019Latvia Blizzard of Souls Dvēseļu putenisDzintars DreibergsA 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 defects to take part in the Latvian War of Independence.
2021United Kingdom The War Below J.P. WattsDuring 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.
2022United States
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.

Television films and series

YearCountryMain titleOriginal titleDirectorSubject
2004Canada A Bear Named Winnie John Kent Harrison Winnipeg the Bear
1974United Kingdom Fall of Eagles (miniseries) John Elliot (creator)The Habsburgs, the Hohenzollerns and the Romanovs to 1918
1976United States Once an Eagle (miniseries) Richard Michaels, E. W. Swackhamer Two US Army officers
1977United Kingdom Wings Jim Goddard
Gareth Davis
Donald McWhinnie
Desmond Davis 		Two British fighter pilots on the Western Front
1979United States
United Kingdom		 All Quiet on the Western Front Im Westen nichts Neues Delbert Mann German infantry on the Western Front
1982Australia 1915 (miniseries)Di Drew,
Chris Thomson		Two rural Australians join the ANZACs
1985Australia Anzacs (miniseries)Pino Amenta,
John Dixon,
George Miller 		Australian infantry in Europe
1986Italy
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
1989United Kingdom Blackadder Goes Forth Richard Boden British soldiers in Flanders
1991United States Tales from the Crypt
""Yellow""		 Robert Zemeckis A US Army general does not wish his son to be seen as a coward
1992United States The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"London, May 1916" (aired March 11)		Carl SchultzWartime London
1992United States The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Verdun, September 1916" (aired March 25)		Rene ManzorThe Battle of Verdun
1992United States The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"German East Africa, December 1916" (aired April 1)		 Simon Wincer Colonial war in the Belgian Congo
1992United States The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Congo, January 1917" (aired April 8)		Simon Wincer Albert Schweitzer in wartime Gabon
1992United States The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Austria, March 1917" (aired September 21)		 Vic Armstrong The Sixtus Affair
1992United States The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Somme, early August 1916" (aired September 28)		Simon WincerThe Battle of the Somme
1992United States The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Germany, Mid-August 1916" (aired October 5)		Simon WincerPrison camps in Germany
1992United States The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Barcelona, May 1917" (aired October 12)		 Terry Jones Espionage in neutral Spain
1992United States Tom and Jerry Kids
"Mouse with a Message" (aired November 29)		Sandy Fries Pilot courier in the Western Front
1993United States The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Princeton, February 1916" (aired March 20)		 Joe Johnston German saboteurs in America
1993United States The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Petrograd, July 1917" (aired March 27)		Simon Wincer Petrograd July Days
1993United States The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Northern Italy, June 1918" (aired April 17)		 Bille August Ernest Hemingway in the Italian front
1993United 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
1993United States The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Ireland, April 1916" (aired June 12)		 Gillies MacKinnon The Easter Rising
1993United States The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Paris, October 1916" (aired July 10)		 Nicolas Roeg Spy Mata Hari
1993United States The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Istanbul, September 1918" (aired July 17)		Mike NewellEspionage during the Fall of the Ottoman Empire
1993United States The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Paris, May 1919" (aired July 24)		 David Hare The Treaty of Versailles
1995United 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)
1995United 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
1995United States Truman Frank Pierson Harry S. Truman, US Army
1996United States The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Prague, August 1917" (unaired)		 Robert Young Espionage, Franz Kafka
1996United States The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Palestine, October 1917" and "Palestine 1917" (unaired)		Simon WincerThe Battle of Beersheba
1996United States The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Morocco 1917" (unaired)		Michael SchultzThe Zaian Revolt
1999United Kingdom
United States		 All the King's Men Julian Jarrold The Sandringham Company
2000Canada Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story (miniseries)Stefan ScainiCanadian women during the war
2001United States The Lost Battalion Russell Mulcahy The Lost Battalion
2002United States The Man Who Saved Christmas Sturla Gunnarsson Alfred Carlton Gilbert
2003United Kingdom The Lost Prince Stephen Poliakoff Prince John
2005Russia The Fall of the Empire Гибель Империи (Gibel Imperii) Vladimir Khotinenko The Russian Revolution
2007ItalyLove 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
2007United Kingdom My Boy Jack Brian Kirk Rudyard Kipling's son Jack at the Battle of Loos
2007Canada The Great War Brian McKenna Canadian infantry on the Western Front
2009TurkeyThe Thoroughfare of Çanakkale †· Çanakkale Geçilmez Gallipoli campaign: a flashbacks story between two friends (one has died)
2012United Kingdom Birdsong Philip Martin British officer recounts the days he spent with his lover before the war during the Battle of the Somme
2012United Kingdom Parade's End Susanna White
2014United Kingdom 37 Days Justin HardyThe diplomatic negotiations leading to the First World War.
2014New 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
2014Australia ANZAC Girls Australian women at the Western Front
2014United 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.
2014United Kingdom Our World War British forces in WWI
2014United Kingdom
Poland		 The Passing Bells Brendan MaherThe 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.
2015Australia 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.
2015Australia Gallipoli Glendyn IvinThe 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.
2015FranceDesertersLes fusillésPhilippe TriboitThe adventure of two men as they struggle to prove their innocence in front of the firing line during the Great War [10]

Science fiction and fantasy

YearCountryMain title
(alternative title)		Original title
(original script)		DirectorSubject
1960United States The Twilight Zone
"The Last Flight" (1960 episode)		William ClaxtonA World War I pilot travels through time to 1959
1964United States A Carol for Another Christmas Joseph L. Mankiewicz Daniel Grudge fought in World War I
1969United Kingdom Doctor Who
"The War Games" (1969 episode)		 David Maloney The Doctor and his companions end up in World War I
1986United Kingdom Biggles John Hough A 20th-century salesman time-travels back to 1917 and meets pilot Biggles
1986United States The Twilight Zone
"The Convict's Piano" (1986 episode)		 Thomas J. Wright A convict time travels through time by playing music from that era, including a brief stop in World War I
1995United States 12 Monkeys Terry Gilliam Bruce Willis plays time traveler Cole, who is briefly transported into a French military offensive during the war
1995United States Demon Knight Ernest Dickerson Recurring flashbacks to WWI trench warfare, where a character in the US Army acquired a holy artifact
1996United 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
2002United Kingdom Deathwatch Michael J. Bassett British soldiers find a demonic being in a captured German trench
2009Japan Hetalia: Axis Powers Hetalia: Axis Powers (ヘタリア Axis Powers)Bob ShirohataA comedy/satire in which countries have human forms - the first few episodes denote interactions between Germany and Italy during and after World War I
2017Japan The Saga of Tanya the Evil (anime series)Yōjo Senki (幼女戦記)Yutaka UemuraA murdered salaryman is reborn as a young girl who goes on to fight in a magical alternate universe World War I
2017United States Wonder Woman Patty Jenkins Diana Prince fights in World War I
2017Canada Trench 11 Leo Scherman Allied soldiers investigate a German trench that turns out to contain zombies
2017United Kingdom Doctor Who
"Twice Upon a Time" (2017 episode)		 Rachel Talalay Partly set just before the Christmas Truce
2019Japan Saga of Tanya the Evil: The Movie Gekijōban Yōjo Senki (劇場版 幼女戦記)Yutaka UemuraSequel to the 2017 television series
2025United States V13 Richard Ledes Inspired by the year Hitler and Freud were in Vienna in 1913 [11]

Documentary

YearCountryMain titleOriginal titleDirectorSubject
1916United Kingdom The Battle of the Somme Geoffrey Malins
John McDowell		British Army at the Battle of the Somme, 1916
1918United States The Sinking of the Lusitania Winsor McCay Animated. Sinking of the RMS Lusitania
2005Turkey Gallipoli Gelibolu Tolga Örnek The Gallipoli campaign, as told by soldiers on both sides
2014France Apocalypse: World War I Apocalypse, la Première Guerre mondialeDaniel Costelle Isabelle Clarke
2018New Zealand
United Kingdom		 They Shall Not Grow Old Peter Jackson

Derived conflicts

Anglo-Irish War and Irish Civil War

YearCountryMain titleOriginal titleDirectorSubject
1941Nazi 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
2006Ireland
United Kingdom		 The Wind That Shakes the Barley Ken Loach Two Cork brothers join the IRA

Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War

YearCountryMain title
(alternative title)		Original title
(original script)		DirectorSubject
1927United States Mockery Benjamin Christensen
1928Soviet 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
1929Soviet 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
1934Soviet Union Chapaev Chapaev (Чапаев) Georgi Vasilyev, Sergei Vasilyev Red Army hero Vasily Chapayev
1934United States British Agent Michael Curtiz Espionage
1937United Kingdom Knight Without Armour (Knight Without Armor) Jacques Feyder British agent saves Russian countess from the Bolsheviks
1939Soviet Union Shchors Shchors (Щорс) Alexander Dovzhenko, Yuliya Solntseva Partisan leader Nikolay Shchors
1958Soviet Union And Quiet Flows the Don Tikhii Don (Тихий Дон) Sergei Gerasimov Don Cossack village between 1912 and 1922
1965United States
United Kingdom		 Doctor Zhivago David Lean Romantic epic based on Boris Pasternak's novel
1967Hungary
Soviet Union		 The Red and the White Csillagosok, katonák Miklós Jancsó Hungarian Communist volunteers in the Russian Civil War
1970Soviet Union White Sun of the Desert Beloye solntse pustyni (Белое солнце пустыни) Vladimir Motyl The Basmachi revolt
1981United States Reds Warren Beatty John Reed
1992Russia
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
2005Russia Nine Lives of Nestor Makhno (miniseries)Devyat zhizney Nestora Makhno (Девять жизней Нестора Махно) Nikolai Kapta Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Makhno

Grigori Rasputin

YearCountryMain title
Original title
(original script)		DirectorSubject
1996United States Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (TV) Uli Edel His last four years (1912–16)

Turkish War of Independence

YearCountryMain titleOriginal titleDirectorSubject
1970United Kingdom You Can't Win 'Em All Peter Collinson Two American veterans join a gang of Turkish mercenaries in an escort mission
2007Turkey The Last Ottoman: Knockout Ali Son Osmanlı Yandım AliMustafa Şevki DoğanDischarged Ottoman Navy veteran joins Mustafa Kemal's army
2014Australia
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.

See also

Notes

References

  1. ↑ This film is available at the Internet Archive.
  2. ↑ The film takes its name from the song "Marš na Drinu".
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ "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.
  5. ↑ "House of Commons – Culture, Media and Sport – written evidence". UK Parliament website. Parliament of the United Kingdom. 18 September 2003. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
  6. ↑ Official Site
  7. ↑ Credits
  8. ↑ An international co-production in English.
  9. ↑ There is a TV miniseries based on the film.
  10. ↑ Eurochannel. "Deserters - Philippe Triboit - France - Eurochannel". Eurochannel: The European TV channel - European movies, TV series and music. Retrieved 2016-02-10.
  11. ↑ Atkinson, Tom (April 30, 2025). "V13". Film Threat . Retrieved August 26, 2025. Set in Vienna on the eve of the First World War, the film draws together a trio of unlikely bedfellows: Sigmund Freud (Alan Cumming), a young and embittered Adolf Hitler (Samuel H. Levine), and Hugo (Liam Aiken), a privileged yet tormented pianist caught between the poles of reason and revulsion. That Freud and Hitler were contemporaries in the city is historical fact; that they might be drawn into this triangular, symbolic dance of ideas and influence is the film's bold hypothesis.
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