WORLD WAR I WAR DRAMA
GENRE - WAR & WAR DRAMA MOVIES BASED ON 1st WORLD WAR/ THE FIRST GREAT WAR.
The most devastating conflict in human history before WWII. Use of military propeller aircraft vintage monoplanes, chemical weapons and terrible mustard gas weapons was first used in this 1st global conflict.
MOVING QUOTES ON WAR -
'IN TIME OF PEACE PREPARE FOR WAR' - PUBLIUS FLAVIUS VEGETIUS RENATUS (ROMAN GENERAL)
'Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind - JFK
'If we dont end war, it will end us' - HG Wells
'All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal'
JOHN STEINBECK
'War is an organised mass murder and nothing else'
HARRY PATCH LAST SURVIVING SOLDIER OF WORLD WAR I
'In peace time man saves lives , but during war time he wastes life in worthless glory of killing'
A quote by myself
'War brings misery, pain and suffering to mankind' - A quote by myself
'WAR is nothing but barbarianism on humanity' - A quote by myself
'During peace time sons bury their fathers but during Wartime's fathers bury their sons'. - CNN International
“Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.”
'' An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.''
The most devastating conflict in human history before WWII. Use of military propeller aircraft vintage monoplanes, chemical weapons and terrible mustard gas weapons was first used in this 1st global conflict.
MOVING QUOTES ON WAR -
'IN TIME OF PEACE PREPARE FOR WAR' - PUBLIUS FLAVIUS VEGETIUS RENATUS (ROMAN GENERAL)
'Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind - JFK
'If we dont end war, it will end us' - HG Wells
'All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal'
JOHN STEINBECK
'War is an organised mass murder and nothing else'
HARRY PATCH LAST SURVIVING SOLDIER OF WORLD WAR I
'In peace time man saves lives , but during war time he wastes life in worthless glory of killing'
A quote by myself
'War brings misery, pain and suffering to mankind' - A quote by myself
'WAR is nothing but barbarianism on humanity' - A quote by myself
'During peace time sons bury their fathers but during Wartime's fathers bury their sons'. - CNN International
“Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.”
'' An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.''
- Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments With Truth and also shown in the last scene of the movie Gandhi 1982.
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- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsLew AyresLouis WolheimJohn WrayA German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.
- DirectorDelbert MannStarsRichard ThomasErnest BorgnineDonald PleasenceA young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
- DirectorJohn GuillerminStarsGeorge PeppardJames MasonUrsula AndressA young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsJohn Phillip LawDon StroudBarry PrimusThe story of Manfred von Richthofen, the German air ace during World War I and his struggle with the enemy aces and some jealous German officers.
- DirectorNikolai MüllerschönStarsMatthias SchweighöferLena HeadeyTil SchweigerGerman biopic loosely based on the World War I fighter ace Manfred Von Richthofen, nicknamed the Red Baron by friend and foe alike.
- DirectorTony BillStarsJames FrancoJean RenoJennifer DeckerThe adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.
- DirectorJack GoldStarsMalcolm McDowellChristopher PlummerSimon WardIn World War I, the high casualty rate amongst the rookie pilots of the Royal Flying Corps puts an enormous strain on the survivors.
- DirectorChristian CarionStarsDiane KrugerBenno FürmannGuillaume CanetIn December 1914, an unofficial Christmas truce on the Western Front allows soldiers from opposing sides of the First World War to gain insight into each other's way of life.
- DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsErrol FlynnBasil RathboneDavid NivenBritish flying aces in World War I contend with the harsh realities of war.
- DirectorHoward HughesEdmund GouldingJames WhaleStarsBen LyonJames HallJean HarlowBrothers Monte and Ray leave Oxford to join the Royal Flying Corps. Ray loves Helen; Helen enjoys an affair with Monte; before they leave on their mission over Germany they find her in still another man's arms.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsPeter O'TooleAlec GuinnessAnthony QuinnThe story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsJeremy IrvineEmily WatsonDavid ThewlisA young farm boy enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. His hopeful journey takes him out of England and onto the front lines as the war rages on.
- DirectorBrian KirkStarsDavid HaigDaniel RadcliffeKim CattrallAuthor Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 18-year-old son after he goes missing during World War I.
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsGary CooperWalter BrennanJoan LeslieA Tennessee farmer and marksman is drafted in World War I, and struggles with his pacifist inclinations before becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.
- DirectorPaul GrossStarsPaul GrossMichael GreyeyesJames KotThe lives of a troubled veteran, his nurse girlfriend and a naive boy intersect first in Alberta and then in Belgium during the bloody World War I battle of Passchendaele.
- DirectorJean-Pierre JeunetStarsAudrey TautouGaspard UllielJodie FosterTells the story of a young woman's relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.
- DirectorBud PollardStarsSamuel CumminsWalter SchellenbergAl HandySeveral World War I veterans relate their experiences during the war and discuss current (in the middle of the Great Depression) economic conditions.
- DirectorPeter WeirStarsMel GibsonMark LeeBill KerrTwo Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.
- StarsKodi Smit-McPheeHarry GreenwoodSam ParsonsonFour young Australian boys join the military and are sent to Gallipoli.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithGeoffrey BarkasStarsFay ComptonTony BruceCarl HarbordTwo friends enlist in the British army during World War 1 and take part in the Gallipoli campaign.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsJean GabinDita ParloPierre FresnayDuring WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.
- DirectorAndrey KravchukStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyElizaveta BoyarskayaSergey BezrukovThe story of admiral Aleksandr Kolchak who remained faithful to his oath to the Russian Emperor and fought against the Bolshevik rule after the 1917 October Revolution.
- DirectorHerbert WilcoxStarsSybil ThorndikeAda BodartGordon CraigA nurse helps 210 men escape to England before the Germans catch and execute her.
- DirectorJuraj HerzStarsMark WaschkeKarel RodenBen BeckerA mill owner in the Sudetenland and his family's lives are changed as Europe heats up in 1938.
- DirectorPaul TurnerStarsHuw GarmonCatrin FychanCeri CunningtonA young poet living in the North Wales countryside competes for the most coveted prize of all in Welsh Poetry - that of the chair of the National Eisteddfod, a tradition dating back a hundred years. Before the winner is announced Hedd Wyn gets sent to fight with the English in the trenches of the First World War
- DirectorJulian JarroldStarsDavid JasonMaggie SmithWilliam AshFeature-length drama about the mystery of Sandringham Company, which disappeared in action at Gallipoli in 1915. Commanded by Captain Frank Beck (David Jason), their estate manager, the men advanced into battle, were enveloped in a strange mist, and never seen again.
- DirectorRichard AttenboroughStarsSandra BullockChris O'DonnellMackenzie AstinA bitter love story between a talented writer and a gentle nurse.
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsKirk DouglasRalph MeekerAdolphe MenjouAfter a failed attack on a German position, a general orders three soldiers, chosen at random, court-martialed for cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them.
- DirectorDalton TrumboStarsTimothy BottomsKathy FieldsMarsha HuntDuring World War I, a patriotic young American is rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack. Trapped in what's left of his body, he desperately looks for a way to end his life.
- DirectorStanislav TomicStarsNeven Aljinovic-TotAlen LivericDrazen SivakIt is a movie about survive in war time (WW1 East front). In dark colors, with interesting characters, mixture of ash and sand, puzzle of stories, cynic, precise, harsh, bitter, Rubick cube of times and events.
- DirectorPhilippe de BrocaStarsAlan BatesGeneviève BujoldPierre BrasseurDuring World War I, a British private, sent ahead to a French town to scout for enemy presence, is mistaken for a King by the colorful patients of an insane asylum.
- DirectorPeter R. HuntStarsLee MarvinRoger MooreBarbara ParkinsDuring World War I, a British aristocrat, an American entrepreneur, and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battlecruiser, which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar.
- DirectorSimon WincerStarsPeter PhelpsNick WatersJohn LarkingIn 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestine they rely on the Australian light horse regiment to break the deadlock.
- DirectorBurton L. KingStarsRobert AlexanderGeorge G. McMurtryCharles W. WhittleseyA battalion of the U. S. Army's 77th Division penetrates deep into the Argonne Forest of France during the First World War. The battalion becomes surrounded and holds out for six long days, awaiting reinforcement and rescue.
- DirectorRussell MulcahyStarsRicky SchroderPhil McKeeJamie HarrisFact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of World War I.
- DirectorRichard AttenboroughStarsWendy AllnuttColin FarrellMalcolm McFeeThe working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsFritz KampersGustav DiesslHans-Joachim MöbisA group of German solders fight on the front line in France at the end of World War I.
- DirectorBrian McKennaStarsBrian McKennaJustin TrudeauMichael RudderA historical recreation of Canada's role in World War I, cast by descendants of the people who participated in it.
- StarsMichael RedgraveRalph RichardsonEmlyn WilliamsOne of the greatest achievements of television -broadcast from 1964 in 26 episodes. Use of extensive archive footage and sound effects, linked with contemporary classic music of that area. Concentrated by the commentaries by Michael Redgrave, and some of the finest male actors of the twentieth century. Still manages to be breathtaking despite the lack of special effects or modern gimmicks.
- DirectorKarl HartlLuis TrenkerStarsLuis TrenkerLissy ArnaClaus ClausenShortly before the First World War, an Italian and an Austrian take part in a mountaineering expedition together. Not long afterwards they find themselves fighting on different sides. The plot also features references to the Mines on the Italian Front (World War I).
- DirectorKurt HoffmannStarsJohanna von KoczianHansjörg FelmyWera FrydtbergThe movie explains Germany from 1913 until 1955 by example of two contrary characters: The idealistic journalist Hans (H.-J. Felmy) loses his work during the Third Reich, whereas opportunist Bruno (R. Graf) makes career to himself in the NSDAP party. After World War II ended, Bruno manages to be indispensable to the US administration and becomes a successful and well respected businessman, despite his Nazi-past. At the same time, Hans tries to earn a living on the countryside. But one day a time will come when both men will meet again.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsJames CagneyCorinne CalvetDan DaileyThe wartime romantic misadventures of Captain Flagg, commander of a company of US Marines in 1918 France.
- DirectorWilliam KeighleyStarsJames CagneyPat O'BrienGeorge BrentAlthough loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
- DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsRoger LiveseyDeborah KerrAnton WalbrookFrom the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.
- DirectorJohn ByrumStarsBill MurrayTheresa RussellDenholm ElliottHe had everything and wanted nothing. He learned that he had nothing and wanted everything. He saved the world and then it shattered. The path to enlightenment is as sharp and narrow as a razor's edge.
- DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceStarsGreta GarboRamon NovarroLionel BarrymoreA semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.
- DirectorCurtis HarringtonStarsSylvia KristelChristopher CazenoveOliver TobiasMata Hari is a beautiful dancer of Dutch origin working in Paris. It is August 1914 and war between France and Germany seems imminent. However, she accepts an invitation to travel to Berlin as part of a show.
- DirectorJean-Louis RichardStarsJeanne MoreauJean-Louis TrintignantClaude RichThe Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari is accused of spying for Germany during the First World War.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJohn GielgudMadeleine CarrollRobert YoungAfter three British Agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsIrene DunneAlan MarshalRoddy McDowallSusan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, American Susan never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsOmar SharifJulie ChristieGeraldine ChaplinThe life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
- DirectorBrian Trenchard-SmithStarsEdward AttertonAmanda RyanJacqueline BissetA fictional account of the sinking of the H.M.H.S. Britannic off the Greek island of Kea in November 1916. This explores the theory of a German Agent sabotaging the liner, a hospital ship.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsBetty BalfourJohn MillsBarry MacKayIn 1914, after a German warship picks-up survivors from a sinking British warship it undergoes repairs off a deserted island but it faces sabotage attempts and attacks from one of the escaped rescued sailors.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsMarlene DietrichVictor McLaglenGustav von SeyffertitzThe Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.
- DirectorRex IngramStarsApollon UniÁlex NovaKada-Abd-el-KaderThe story of a female German spy who willingly sacrifices her life for her country.
- DirectorHoward HawksRichard RossonStarsJoan CrawfordGary CooperRobert YoungDuring WWI, two officers, one a pilot and the other in the navy, compete for the same beautiful young woman.
- DirectorRupert JulianStarsRupert JulianElmo LincolnNigel De BrulierA propagandistic view of the First World War, showing the political greed of the German Kaiser Wilhelm, the resistance of some of his own soldiers, and fanciful prediction of the nature of the war's end.
- During World War I, Percy Toplis, a deserter from the British Army, plays a major role in the Étaples Mutiny in September 1917.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsConrad VeidtValerie HobsonSebastian ShawA German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
- DirectorBlake EdwardsStarsJulie AndrewsRock HudsonJeremy KempSet during World War I, this movie is a cute spin on the Mata Hari legend.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsConrad VeidtVivien LeighJoan GardnerDuring World War I, a German spy and a French spy meet and fall in love.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsHerbert MarshallConrad VeidtMadeleine CarrollDuring World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matters is the guilt she feels when she has to treat the German casualties inflicted as a result of the information she's passed on, and the fact that the local German commandant is falling in love with her.
- DirectorEtienne PérierStarsMichael YorkElke SommerPeter CarstenIn 1915, frustrated with the German air-raids on London, British Intelligence sends Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas, who has German ancestry, to Germany, to find information about the latest German Zeppelin.
- DirectorRichard E. NormanStarsLaurence CrinerKathryn BoydBoise De LeggeA WWI fighter pilot returns to his former job as a railroad detective, and must recover a satchel filled with $25,000 of stolen payroll, locate a missing employee, and capture the gang of thieves responsible.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsGary CooperFay WrayBarry NortonFour young men from various walks of life sign up for the Lafayette Escadrille, known as "The Legion of the Condemned"
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsLeslie HowardDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Paul LukasA British prisoner of war becomes imprisoned alongside his best friend from home, unaware that while he was captured, the friend began an affair with his wife.
- DirectorMark RadiceStarsFergal KeaneJacques Trolley de PrévauxNick SaundersThe history of World War I as depicted with archival and modern aerial footage.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsBarry K. BarnesSophie StewartJack HawkinsDuring the First World War, a number of captured British officers attempt to escape a prisoner-of-war camp.
- DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceStarsJean HarlowFranchot ToneCary GrantBelieving that a German spy has killed her new husband (Franchot Tone), a struggling chorus girl (Jean Harlow) flees to Paris where she meets and marries a World War I pilot (Cary Grant), whose carefree ways bring unexpected results.
- DirectorGeoffrey MalinsStarsBeauvoir De LisleDocumentary (with some re-enacted footage) of the British army's participation in the Battle of the Somme in France during World War I.
- DirectorHerrie ten CateStarsJulian RichingsThe Battle of the Somme was the bloodiest day in the history of England. Since then, debate has raged over the legitimacy of the only combat footage of the battle. Now, a team of investigators is using science to solve this 90-year-old mystery.
- StarsKenneth BranaghHarry PatchHubert WilliamsDocumentary using computer colorized footage from World War I to give the audience the feel of how it really looked back during the war.
- StarsMathieu KassovitzFrançois ArnaudVladimir LeninColorized historical footage in ascending order of World War 1. Not only the relatively known Flanders and France battles, but also the generally unknown Italian-Austrian, German-Polish-Russian, Japanese-German, Ottoman Empire- Allied and African German Colonies, and other unknown or forgotten fronts and battles. Original French production retold in English for National Geographic channel as: World War 1: The Apocalypse
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPaulette GoddardJack OakieDictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
- StarsAndrew ClarkePaul HoganJon BlakeThe lives of a dozen Australian soldiers who served in the ANZACs. Fighting first at Gallipoli in 1915, then on the Western Front for the remainder of WWI, it's the story of the hardships, camaraderie and casualties of war.
- DirectorJohan EarlAdrian PowersStarsJohan EarlTim PocockMartin CoppingThree British soldiers find themselves stranded in No Man's Land after a failed charge on the German Trenches. Set in France 1916.
- StarsPatrick GibsonJack LowdenHubert BurtonAn epic historical drama spanning the five years of the First World War, as seen through the eyes of two ordinary young soldiers.
- StarsSam ElliottCliff PottsDarleen CarrA story of the professional and private lives of two Army officers, Court Massengale an incompetent schemer who doesn't care about his men, and Sam Damon, a heroic and caring leader from World War I to the end of World War II.
- DirectorJames WhaleStarsColin CliveIan MaclarenDavid MannersIn France, 1917, an alcoholic captain is afraid that his new replacement, his sweetheart's brother, will betray his downfall.
- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsThomas AdlamWilliam ArgentJohn AshbyA documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.
- DirectorWilliam BoydStarsPaul NichollsDaniel CraigJulian Rhind-TuttJune 1916. The British Army is planning a big offensive in the Somme region in France. We follow a platoon of British soldiers as they sit in a forward trench, anxiously awaiting the order to go over the top.
- DirectorJeremy SimsStarsBrendan CowellHarrison GilbertsonSteve Le MarquandIn 1916, the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company is tunneling beneath German fortifications and bunkers to detonate massive explosive charges.
- DirectorJames KentStarsAlicia VikanderKit HaringtonTaron EgertonA British woman recalls coming of age during World War I - a story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times.
- DirectorSaul DibbStarsPaul BettanySam ClaflinStephen GrahamSet in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of a group of British officers, led by mentally-disintegrating young Officer Stanhope, as they await their fate.
- DirectorPaul GrossStarsPaul GrossMichael GreyeyesJames KotThe lives of a troubled veteran, his nurse girlfriend and a naive boy intersect first in Alberta and then in Belgium during the bloody World War I battle of Passchendaele.
- DirectorSam MendesStarsDean-Charles ChapmanGeorge MacKayDaniel MaysApril 6th, 1917. As an infantry battalion assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.