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
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A staged scene from
The Battle of the Somme

Feature films

YearCountryMain title
(alternative title)
Original title
(original script)
DirectorSubject*
1917 US The Little American Cecil B. DeMille An American woman falls in love with both a German and French soldierA, D
1918US Hearts of the World D. W. Griffith A young French couple are torn apart during the warA, D
1918US My Four Years in Germany William Nigh A biopic of James W. Gerard, the U.S. Ambassador to GermanyD
1918US Shoulder Arms Charlie Chaplin Doughboy on the Western Front [1] C
1919US 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
1919US 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 GovernmentC
1919France 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
1921US The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Rex Ingram Argentinian family of mixed Franco-German heritage divided by the war's outbreakD, R
1922US 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, RP
1925US The Big Parade King Vidor US Army's Rainbow Division D, RP, N
1925US 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, LP
1925 UK Ypres Walter Summers Battle reconstruction film of the several battles at Ypres.
1926US The Better 'Ole Charles Reisner D, CP
1926US What Price Glory? Raoul Walsh Rival United States Marines sergeants in FranceD, CP
1926UK Mons Walter Summers Battle reconstruction of the BEF 1914 retreat from MonsD, A
1927UK Roses of Picardy Maurice Elvey In France, an ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son.DN
1927US 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 chambermaidD, RP
1927US Wings William A. Wellman Two American pilots on the Western FrontD, R
1927US Barbed Wire Rowland V. Lee Anti-war romance. A French farm girl and a German POW fall in love.D, RN
1927US 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
1928Canada Carry on, Sergeant! Bruce Bairnsfather Canadian soldier and French waitressR
1928UK Dawn Herbert Wilcox Nurse Edith Cavell D
1928US Four Sons John Ford Four Bavarian brothers, in the German and American armiesD
1928US Finders Keepers Wesley Ruggles & Otis B. ThayerC
1928US 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
1929UK Lost Patrol Walter Summers A British patrol is cornered at an oasis by enemy Arab tribesmen during the Mesopotamian campaign A, DN
1929US 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
1930UK The W Plan Victor Saville A British spy helps prisoners of war destroy Germans during WW1A
1930US Journey's End James Whale British infantry on the Western FrontDP
1930US All Quiet on the Western Front Lewis Milestone German infantry on the Western FrontDN
1930US A Man from Wyoming Rowland V. Lee D, RN
1930US Inside the Lines Roy Pomeroy During WW1, the paths of an officer in the English secret service and a German spy converge in Gibraltar.DP
1930US Anybody's War Lloyd Corrigan Two blackfaced men and their dog get talked into joining WW1C
1930US The Dawn Patrol Howard Hawks RFC pilots on the Western FrontA
1930US Doughboys Edward Sedgwick A, C
1930US Half Shot at Sunrise Paul Sloane MPs in Paris chase two AWOL doughboys posing as officers with the colonel's daughter.C
1930US Hell's Angels Howard Hughes
Edmund Goulding (uncredited)
James Whale (uncredited)
RFC pilots on the Western FrontA
1930US War Nurse Edgar Selwyn Women from various backgrounds volunteer as nurses in France at the outbreak of World War ID, R
1930Weimar Republic Westfront 1918 Vier von der Infanterie Georg Wilhelm Pabst German infantry on the Western FrontD
1931US Seas Beneath John Ford USN mystery ship seeks German U-boatA
1931US Dishonored Josef von Sternberg EspionageA, D
1931US 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
1931US 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.DP
1931US Chances Allan Dwan Two brothers on leave, fall for the same girl in World War I London.D, RN
1931US The Gay Diplomat Richard Boleslawski A Russian captain frequents drawing rooms of WW1 Bucharest to find a female spy.D, RS
1931US 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.DN
1931US Waterloo Bridge James Whale Soldier meets chorus girl turned prostitute in London during an air raid.D, RP
1931US Mata Hari George Fitzmaurice Spy Mata Hari D, R
1931Weimar Republic Hell on Earth Niemandsland Victor Trivas Soldiers from opposing sides trapped together.D
1931Weimar Republic Mountains on Fire Berge in Flammen Karl Hartl
Luis Trenker
An Italian and an Austrian climbers find themselves fighting on different sidesD, AN
1932France Wooden Crosses Les Croix de bois Raymond Bernard D, AN
1932US Cock of the Air Tom Buckingham An opera diva sets her sights on a womanizing Army officer.C, R
1932US Sky Devils Ground Hogs Edward Sutherland & Busby Berkeley Draft dodger blunders into a warzoneC
1932US Pack Up Your Troubles George Marshall
Raymond McCarey
CN
1932US 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, RP
1932US A Farewell to Arms Frank Borzage American soldier and British nurseD, RN
1932US Rasputin and the Empress Richard Boleslawski Grigori Rasputin D, RN
1932Weimar Republic Cruiser Emden Kreuzer Emden Louis Ralph SMS Emden D
1932Weimar Republic
Switzerland
Tannenberg Tannenberg Heinz Paul The Battle of Tannenberg A
1933US Private Jones Russell Mack An unwilling American is drafted to fight Germans after the US enters the war in 1917.C
1933US Today We Live Howard Hawks
Richard Rosson
A naval officer and an aviator compete for the same beautiful young woman.D, RA, S
1933US 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
1933US Hell Below Pigboats Jack Conway Submarine warfare on the Adriatic Sea.D, A, RN
1933US 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, AP
1933US Captured! Roy Del Ruth Allied soldiers in a German POW campDS
1933US Ace of Aces J. Walter Ruben The film explores how war can turn a man's moral compass from pacifism to warmonger.D, AS
1933US After Tonight George Archainbaud A Russian spy and an Austrian captain fall in love during WW1.RS
1933US Ever in My Heart Archie Mayo Romance and espionage in WW1D, RA, S
1934US The Lost Patrol John Ford Remake of Lost PatrolA, DN
1934US Keep 'Em Rolling Rodney George Archainbaud WW1 Doughboy disobeys orders to save the condemned cavalry horse that saved his life.C, DS
1934US 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
1934US The World Moves On John Ford A, DN
1935UK 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
1935US 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, RP
1935US The Last Outpost Charles Barton
Louis J. Gasnier
A
1935US Rendezvous William K. Howard EspionageD
1936UK Secret Agent Alfred Hitchcock EspionageD
1936US 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, MP
1936US Suzy George Fitzmaurice EspionageD
1936US The Road to Glory Howard Hawks Remake of Les Croix de bois, trench warfare on the Western FrontD
1937France Grand Illusion La Grande Illusion Jean Renoir Two French POWs plot their escapeD
1937FranceMademoiselle DocteurSalonique, 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
1937UK 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
1937UK 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
1937US 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
1937US 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.DN
1937US The Road Back James Whale How German soldiers struggle with life in post-war Germany.D
1938US 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, RS
1938US Alexander's Ragtime Band Henry King A, M
1938US Block-Heads John G. Blystone C
1938US Men with Wings William A. Wellman US pilot on the Western FrontA
1938US The Dawn Patrol Edmund Goulding RFC pilots on the Western FrontA
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.D, A
1939US 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.DP
1939US 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
1939US The Roaring Twenties Raoul Walsh D
1939UK The Spy in Black Michael Powell EspionageA
1940US The Fighting 69th William Keighley New York City's 69th Regiment, with Donovan (OSS) and Kilmer (poet)D
1940US The Great Dictator Charlie Chaplin Jewish barber on the Western Front A
1941US Sergeant York Howard Hawks Sgt. Alvin York A
1942US Yankee Doodle Dandy Michael Curtiz George M. Cohan A
1942US For Me and My Gal Busby Berkeley A, M
1943UK The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Michael Powell
Emeric Pressburger
A, D
1943US This Is the Army Michael Curtiz A, M
1944US Wilson Henry King President Woodrow Wilson D, R
1951UK / US The African Queen John Huston War in German East Africa A, R
1951Italy The Caiman of the Piave Il caimano del Piave Giorgio Bianchi Espionage on the front of the Piave river in 1918D
1951Italy Without a Flag Senza bandiera Lionello De Felice Italian agents discover an Austrian spy ring in ZürichD
1952Italy Brothers of Italy Fratelli d'Italia Fausto Saraceni Nazario Sauro, Istrian Italian, fights against AustriaD
1952US What Price Glory John Ford American infantry on the Western FrontM
1953US The Royal African Rifles Lesley Selander British East Africa A
1954Italy Woe to the Vanquished Ones Guai ai vinti Raffaello Matarazzo Austrian occupation troops mistreat Italian womenDN
1955US East of Eden Elia Kazan American home frontD
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
1957US A Farewell to Arms Charles Vidor,
John Huston (uncredited)
American soldier and British nurseD, RN
1957US Paths of Glory Stanley Kubrick French infantry on the Western FrontDN
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 ID, C
1962UK / US Lawrence of Arabia David Lean T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt A
1964UK King & Country Joseph Losey British soldier tried for desertionD
1964Yugoslavia March on the Drina Marš na Drinu ( Марш на Дрину ) Žika Mitrović Battle of Cer [2] A, D
1964France
Italy
Mata Hari, agent H21 Mata Hari Agent H 21 Jean-Louis Richard Spy Mata Hari D, R
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 ArmyD, RN
1966UK The Blue Max John Guillermin German fighter pilot on the Western FrontA
1966France King of Hearts Le Roi de Coeur Philippe de Broca Inmates of an insane asylum take over a village abandoned during the warC
1969Italy
Yugoslavia
Fräulein Doktor Fräulein Doktor Alberto Lattuada Elsbeth Schragmüller D
1969UK Oh! What a Lovely War Richard Attenborough Satirical chronicle of the warM
1970US Darling Lili Blake Edwards German female spy in ParisM
1970Italy
Yugoslavia
Many Wars Ago Uomini Contro Francesco Rosi Italian infantry on the Venetian front D
1971US Johnny Got His Gun Dalton Trumbo Plight of a seriously wounded soldier in a military hospitalDN
1971US Von Richthofen and Brown Roger Corman Air war on the Western FrontA
1971UK Zeppelin Etienne Périer British double agent A, D
1972Yugoslavia Pukovnikovica Đorđe Kadijević Waning Austro-Hungarian EmpireD
1976UK Aces High Jack Gold RFC on the Western FrontA
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 C, D
1976Australia Break of Day Ken Hannam A wounded Gallipoli survivor returns to AustraliaD
1976UK Shout at the Devil Peter R. Hunt War in East AfricaA
1978Romania Ecaterina Teodoroiu Dinu Cocea Ecaterina Teodoroiu D, LM
1980Romania
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 frontlineD, RN
1981Australia Gallipoli Peter Weir Australian infantry in the Gallipoli campaign D
1981Romania
East Germany
Mercenaries' Trap Capcana mercenarilor Sergiu Nicolaescu Romanian Army in Romanian Front D
1982Italy Porca vacca Pasquale Festa Campanile Love, Scams and War on the Italian FrontC, R, D
1983Canada The Wars Robin Phillips Canadian soldier on the Western FrontDN
1985US Mata Hari Curtis Harrington Spy Mata Hari D
1987Australia The Lighthorsemen Simon Wincer Australian cavalry in the Battle of Beersheba (1917) D
1987Soviet Union Moonzund Moonzund (Моонзунд) Valentin Pikul Russian Captain and German female spy during the Battle of Moon Sound D, R
1989France Life and Nothing But La vie et rien d'autre Bertrand Tavernier Identification of French soldiers missing in action after the warD
1992New Zealand Chunuk Bair Dale G. BradleyWellington Regiment at the Battle of Gallipoli D
1992Wales [3] [4] [5] Hedd Wyn Paul Turner Welsh poet Ellis Evans (Hedd Wyn) killed at the Battle of Passchendaele D
1994US Legends of the Fall Edward Zwick Montana family during the early 20th centuryD
1996Italy The Border La Frontiera Franco Giraldi Italian officer from Dalmatia deserts the Austrian Army, but is captured and executedDN
1996France Captain Conan Capitaine Conan Bertrand Tavernier French occupation troops in Southeastern Europe after the surrender of Bulgaria D
1996US In Love and War Richard Attenborough Ernest Hemingway and Agnes von Kurowsky R
1997UK Regeneration Gillies MacKinnon Siegfried Sassoon DN
1999UK
France
The Trench William Boyd British soldiers at the Battle of the Somme D
1999Romania The Death Triangle Triunghiul Morţii Sergiu Nicolaescu Romanian soldiers in 1917D
2000US The Legend of Bagger Vance Robert Redford
2004Canada A Bear Named Winnie John Kent Harrison Winnipeg the Bear D, F
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 D
2004US Company K Robert ClemAmerican veteran writes about the company in which he servedD
2005Belgium
France
Germany
Romania
UK
Joyeux Noël Merry Christmas Christian Carion Christmas truce of 1914D, R
2006US Flyboys Tony Bill The Lafayette Escadrille A, D
2006Japan The Ode to Joy Baruto no Gakuen Masanobu Deme German POWs in JapanD
2006UK Quiet Flows the Don Sergei Bondarchuk Don Cossacks during the war, the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War DN
2008Russia Admiral Admiral (Адмиралъ)Andrey Kravchuk Alexander Kolchak D, R
2008UK Einstein and Eddington Philip Martin Development of the theory of relativity D
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.F
2008US Haber Daniel Ragussis Fritz Haber D
2008Turkey 120 120Özhan ErenChildren supplying munition to the Ottoman troops during the Battle of Sarikamish D
2008Canada Passchendaele Paul Gross Canadian infantry on the Western Front, and the Crucified Soldier D
2008Germany
UK
US
The Red Baron [8] Nikolai Müllerschön Baron Manfred von Richthofen D, R
2009Serbia St. George Shoots the Dragon Sveti Georgije ubiva aždahu (Свети Георгије убива аждаху) Srđan Dragojević Battle of Cer [9] DP
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 warD
2010Australia Beneath Hill 60 Jeremy Sims Oliver Woodward D
2010Turkey Veda Zülfü Livaneli Salih Bozok with the trace of life with Mustafa Kemal LM
2011Croatia Josef Josef Stanislav Tomić Croat soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army A
2011US / UK War Horse Steven Spielberg Devon youth and his horse on the Western FrontDC
2012Turkey Canakkale 1915 Çanakkale 1915Yesim Sezgin Dardanelles campaign and the ensuing Gallipoli campaign, as seen from the Turkish side.D
2012UK 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.DC
2012Turkey Sons of Çanakkale Çanakkale Çocukları Gallipoli campaign: two brothers fight in 2 sidesF, DC, M
2013Turkey The Long Way Home Eve Dönüş: Sarıkamış 1915Alphan EşeliFamily during the Battle of Sarikamish D, A
2013Australia Forbidden Ground John Earl
Adrian Powers
Three British soldiers stranded in no man's land D, A, F, LP, M
2013Turkey Gallipoli: End of the Road Çanakkale: Yolun SonuKemal UzunTurkish sniper during the Gallipoli campaign D, AP
2014Italy Greenery Will Bloom Again Torneranno i prati Ermanno Olmi War on the Asiago plateau at the end of 1917DS
2014Singapore Hearts from the Somme James StevensStory of friends during the Battle of the Somme D
2014Austria
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 mountainD
2014UK Testament of Youth James Kent Vera Brittain, an independent young woman who abandoned her Oxford studies to become a war nurseD, RM
2015Russia Battalion Batal'on (Батальонъ)Dmitry Meskhiev 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death D, R
2015ItalyPrivate Soldato semplice Paolo Cevoli Elementary teacher on the front after the Battle of Caporetto C
2017UK Goodbye Christopher Robin Simon Curtis A. A. Milne D
2017UK Journey's End Saul Dibb British infantry on the Western FrontD
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 survivingD8d States
2018UKThe Burying PartyRichard WestonWilfred Owen returns to the Somme to follow his subject.D
2018 India Sajjan Singh Rangroot Pankaj Batra Indian infantry on the Western frontA,D
2018UK The Good Soldier Schweik Christine Edzard Adaptation of The Good Soldier Švejk
2019US / UK Tolkien Dome Karukoski J. R. R. Tolkien D
2019UK 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
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.DN
2021UK 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.D
2022US

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.DN
*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

YearCountryMain titleOriginal titleDirectorSubject*
1966West Germany
Netherlands
The Mata Hari Case †· Der Fall Mata Hari Paul Verhoeven Spy Mata Hari D
1974UK Fall of Eagles (miniseries) John Elliot (creator)The Habsburgs, the Hohenzollerns and the Romanovs to 1918D, R
1976US Once an Eagle (miniseries) Richard Michaels, E. W. Swackhamer Two US Army officersD, RN
1977UK Wings Jim Goddard
Gareth Davis
Donald McWhinnie
Desmond Davis
Two British fighter pilots on the Western FrontD
1979US
UK
All Quiet on the Western Front Im Westen nichts Neues Delbert Mann German infantry on the Western Front DN
1981NetherlandsMata Hari (miniseries)Mata HariJohn Van de RestSpy Mata Hari D
1982Australia1915 (miniseries)Di Drew,
Chris Thomson
Two rural Australians join the ANZACs D
1985Australia Anzacs (miniseries)Pino Amenta,
John Dixon,
George Miller
Australian infantry in EuropeD
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 A, D
1989UK Blackadder Goes Forth Richard Boden British soldiers in Flanders C
1991US Tales from the Crypt
""Yellow""
Robert Zemeckis A US Army general does not wish his son to be seen as a coward
1992US The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"London, May 1916" (aired March 11)
Carl SchultzWartime LondonA, R
1992US The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Verdun, September 1916" (aired March 25)
Rene ManzorThe Battle of Verdun A, D
1992US The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"German East Africa, December 1916" (aired April 1)
Simon Wincer Colonial war in the Belgian Congo A, D
1992US The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Congo, January 1917" (aired April 8)
Simon Wincer Albert Schweitzer in wartime Gabon D
1992US The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Austria, March 1917" (aired September 21)
Vic Armstrong The Sixtus Affair A
1992US The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Somme, early August 1916" (aired September 28)
Simon WincerThe Battle of the Somme A, D
1992US The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Germany, Mid-August 1916" (aired October 5)
Simon WincerPrison camps in GermanyA
1992US The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Barcelona, May 1917" (aired October 12)
Terry Jones Espionage in neutral Spain C
1993US The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Princeton, February 1916" (aired March 20)
Joe Johnston German saboteurs in America A
1993US The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Petrograd, July 1917" (aired March 27)
Simon Wincer Petrograd July Days D
1993US The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Northern Italy, June 1918" (aired April 17)
Bille August Ernest Hemingway in the Italian front C
1993US 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
1993US The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Ireland, April 1916" (aired June 12)
Gillies MacKinnon The Easter Rising A
1993US The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Paris, October 1916" (aired July 10)
Nicolas Roeg Spy Mata Hari D, R
1993US The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Istanbul, September 1918" (aired July 17)
Mike NewellEspionage during the Fall of the Ottoman Empire D
1993US The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Paris, May 1919" (aired July 24)
David Hare The Treaty of Versailles D
1995US 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
1995US The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Young Indiana Jones and the Attack of the Hawkmen" (aired October 8)
Ben Burtt Air war on the Western FrontA
1995US Truman Frank Pierson Harry S. Truman, US ArmyDB
1996US The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Prague, August 1917" (unaired)
Robert Young Espionage, Franz Kafka C
1996US The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Palestine, October 1917" and "Palestine 1917" (unaired)
Simon WincerThe Battle of Beersheba A
1996US The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Morocco 1917" (unaired)
Michael SchultzThe Zaian Revolt A, R
1999UK
US
All the King's Men Julian Jarrold The Sandringham Company DB
2001US The Lost Battalion Russell Mulcahy The Lost Battalion A, D
2002US The Man Who Saved Christmas Sturla Gunnarsson Alfred Carlton Gilbert A, D
2003UK The Lost Prince Stephen Poliakoff Prince John C
2005Russia The Fall of the Empire Гибель Империи (Gibel Imperii) Vladimir Khotinenko The Russian Revolution DS
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 ArmsDB, N
2007UK My Boy Jack Brian Kirk Rudyard Kipling's son Jack at the Battle of Loos DP, V
2007Canada The Great War Brian McKenna Canadian infantry on the Western FrontD
2008Syria
Lebanon
United Arab Emirates
Qatar
Lawrence Al Arab لورانس العرب Thaer Mousa T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt DM, S
2009TurkeyThe Thoroughfare of Çanakkale †· Çanakkale Geçilmez Gallipoli campaign: a flashbacks story between two friends (one has died)M
2012UK Birdsong Philip Martin British officer recounts the days he spent with his lover before the war during the Battle of the Somme DN
2012UK Parade's End Susanna White DN
2012RussiaPassion for ChapayСтрасты по ЧапаюFuture Soviet officer Vasily Chapayev at the World War ID, A
2013UKThe Wipers TimesIan HislopD, C
2013BelgiumIn Flanders FieldsIn Vlaamse VeldenJan MatthysBelgian infantry on the western frontD
2013GermanyOdyssey of Heroes Die Männer der Emden Berengar Pfahl SMS Emden D, A
2014UK 37 Days Justin HardyThe diplomatic negotiations leading to the First World War.D
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 D
2014Australia ANZAC Girls Australian women at the Western Front DM
2014UK 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
2014UK Our World War British forces in WWID
2014UK
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.D
2015ItalyMud 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
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.D
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.D
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]
*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

YearCountryMain titleDirectorSubject
1960US The Twilight Zone
"The Last Flight" (1960 episode)
William ClaxtonA pilot time travels from World War I
1964US 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
1986UK Biggles John Hough A 20th century salesman time-travels back to 1917 and meets pilot "Biggles"
1986US The Twilight Zone
"The Convict's Piano" (1986 episode)
Thomas J. Wright A convict time travels to World War I
1995US 12 Monkeys Terry Gilliam Bruce Willis plays time traveler Cole, who briefly is transported into a French military offensive during the war.
1995US Demon Knight Ernest Dickerson Recurring flashbacks to WWI trench warfare, where a character in the US Army acquired a holy artifact
1996US The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
"Transylvania, January 1918" (unaired episode)
Dick Maas Indiana Jones runs into a Romanian general who might be a vampire
2002UK Deathwatch Michael J. Bassett British soldiers find a demonic being in a captured German trench
2017UK Doctor Who
"Twice Upon a Time" (2017 episode)
Rachel Talalay Partly set just before the Christmas Truce
2017US 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

YearCountryMain titleOriginal titleDirectorSubject
1916United Kingdom The Battle of the Somme Geoffrey Malins
John McDowell
British Army at the Battle of the Somme, 1916
1918US The Sinking of the Lusitania Winsor McCay Animated. Sinking of the RMS Lusitania
1934ItalyGloria - The Great War †· Gloria - La grande guerra Roberto Omegna Italy in World War I
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
2017USBlack Jack Pershing: Love and War Bernard R. McCoy John J. Pershing
2018New Zealand
UK
They Shall Not Grow Old Peter Jackson
2018Ukraine Kruty 1918 Aleksey Shaparev
2018Serbia The Long Road to War Dugo putovanje u ratMiloš ŠkundrićThe origins and causes of the First World War, from 19th century to 1914.

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 D
2006Ireland
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

YearCountryMain title
(alternative title)
Original title
(original script)
DirectorSubject*
1927US Mockery Benjamin Christensen A mentally challenged peasant saves a countess, then obsesses over herD
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 1917DB
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 AN
1934US British Agent Michael Curtiz EspionageD
1937United Kingdom Knight Without Armour (Knight Without Armor) Jacques Feyder British agent saves Russian countess from the Bolsheviks DN
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 1922D
1965US/UK Doctor Zhivago David Lean Romantic epic based on Boris Pasternak's novelD
1967Hungary
Soviet Union
The Red and the White Csillagosok, katonák Miklós Jancsó Hungarian Communist volunteers in the Russian Civil WarD
1968Soviet Union Two Army Comrades Служили два товарища Eugine Karelov Drama of the Russian Civil WarD
1970Soviet Union White Sun of the Desert Beloye solntse pustyni (Белое солнце пустыни) Vladimir Motyl The Basmachi revolt A
1981US Reds Warren Beatty John Reed D
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 DS
2005Russia 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

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

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 missionA
2007Turkey The Last Ottoman: Knockout Ali Son Osmanlı Yandım AliMustafa Şevki DoğanDischarged Ottoman Navy veteran joins Mustafa Kemal's armyA
2014Australia
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.AN
*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

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