There are not nearly enough movies set during world war 1...anyone agree?
shareProbably since the ones that have been made are mostly old pre 80's or earlier.
shareWell worth a look is "My Boy Jack" 2007. Actual scenes of fighting play a very small part in the film, but it powerfully depicts the public perceptions at the time and the effect which the premature death of a loved one can have on those he left behind.
sharelooking at WW1 films released in the US yeah the selection is not all that huge... most of the films made seem to focus on the air war
sharepaths of glory, the best wwi movie i've ever seen.
shareThere are several films about World War I in the spirit of All Quiet on the Western Front. These include:
The Grand Illusion (1937)
Broken Lullaby (1932)
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Other films about World War I include:
The Big Parade (1925)
Wings (1927)
Hells Angels (1930)
The Dawn Patrol (1930), (1938)
Doughboys (1930)
A Man From Wyoming (1930)
Beyond Victory (1931)
Seas Beneath (1931)
Mata Hari (1931)
Tell England (1931)
The Lost Squadron (1932)
A Farewell to Arms (1932), (1957)
Hell Below (1933)
Captured (1933)
Ace of Aces (1933)
The Lost Patrol (1934)
British Agent (1934)
The Road to Glory (1936)
Secret Agent (1936)
Dark Journey (1937)
The Spy in Black (1939)
Pack up Your Troubles (1939)
British Intelligence (1940)
The Fighting 69th (1940)
Sergeant York (1941)
The Iron Major (1943)
Captain Eddie (1945)
What Price Glory (1952)
Lafayette Escadrille (1958)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Blue Max (1966)
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
Zeppelin (1971)
The Red Baron (1971)
Aces Hign (1976)
Gallipoli (1981)
1918 (1985)
Marthe (1997)
Thye Trench (1999)
The Lost Battalion (2001)
The Somme (2005)
Joyeux Noel (2005)
Flyboys (2006)
Against the Wind (2008)
The Light (2008)
There's also D. W. Griffith's HEARTS OF THE WORLD and THE GIRL WHO STAYED AT HOME.
shareAlso "Regeneration" (1997) (US: Behind the Lines) about Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen.
Someone previously mentioned "My Boy Jack" (2007 TV film about Rudyard Kipling's son, starring Daniel Radcliffe).
good list!
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You might also want to check out The Lighthorsemen. It is based on a true story and is about the 4th Australian Lighthorse Brigade. It climaxes with the charge of the Lighthorsemen against the Turks at the Battle of Beersheeba in Palestine. (in a day and age when cavalry charges were becoming obsolete)
shareI know it's not a film it's a mini-series, but if you can get hold of it, Anzacs (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088479/) is superb.
There's also A Very Long Engagement.
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TCM has run "WESTFRONT 1918" a few times. I taped it. It a German film, G W Pabst's first talkie. It very much like AQOTWF. It tells he story of the war from the German point of veiw and shows the suffering of civilians at home as well as what the soilders went though in the trenchs. Surprizingly the German film industry had much more freedom than Hollywood. "WESTFRONT 1918" has four letter words and scenes of men and women in bed together that would never have been allowed in America. German with English subtitles. Well worth seeing.
sharePasschendaele (2008) is another one
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1092082/
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