A list of movies about World War 1

Einar the Lonely · Post by **Einar the Lonely** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 3:26 am

Norma Desmond wrote:Most of these movies are decidedly anti-War. A very few argued it was all worth it.

Interestingly enough this is true for both the victorious and the defeated side.

George Kincaid · Post by **George Kincaid** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 10:47 am

Thanks for your contributions to the list, Einar. I imagine those movies available on DVD can be bought from Amazon's European sites. I hadn't had much luck finding Italian or Austrian films about WWI, and I have a curiosity about how the war was perceived in those countries.

Decotodd · Post by **Decotodd** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 12:56 pm

FYI, I saw on the internet today that the last Australian WWI vet died at 110 years of age.

Jim Roots · Post by **Jim Roots** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 6:47 am

Decotodd wrote:FYI, I saw on the internet today that the last Australian WWI vet died at 110 years of age.

In a perfect symbol of the relations between our two countries, the last Canadian WW1 vet is alive and living in ... the USA.

... For the past 90 years!

Jim
(was distantly related to the second-last Canadian vet, who DID live and die in Canada)

Gumlegs · Post by **Gumlegs** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:17 pm

Some nice dancing in Half Shot at Sunrise.

Hey! The funny comedies have already been mentioned!

Einar the Lonely · Post by **Einar the Lonely** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:55 pm

Henry Allingham, one of the last surviving veterans of WWI dies at 113:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/ju ... -gentleman

Derwiddian · Post by **Derwiddian** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:15 am

I might as well throw in a plug here for the 2002 two-episode TV remake of Dr. Zhivago. You won't get David Lean's majestic feel for landscapes and Omar Sharif's eyes won't light up the screen, but it is truer to the novel and you can't go to far wrong with Keira Knightley as Lara.

On the silent side, there is also Edison's The Unbeliever, made during the war and now buried deep in Kino's Edison box. Like other wartime efforts such as Hearts of the World and The Little American, do not expect a balanced view.

Ray Faiola · Post by **Ray Faiola** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:38 am

BEYOND VICTORY with James Gleason and William Boyd. Has some terrific battle scenes and an interesting story about the girls they left behind. Jimmy's boy Russell is also in the picture. From RKO.

Einar the Lonely · Post by **Einar the Lonely** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:11 pm

And another one:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/ju ... s-aged-111

This kind of news never fails to fascinate me...

elalamo · Post by **elalamo** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:31 pm

Two recent WWI films that I admire very much are "A Very Long Engagement" (2004) and "Silent Night" (2002). In fact they represent part of a very short list of movies I own on DVD that are less than a decade old.

earlytalkiebuffRob · Post by **earlytalkiebuffRob** » Sun Nov 27, 2016 5:46 am

George Kincaid wrote:There's a recent book on WW1 cinema, too:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... R&v=glance" target="_blank

The War The West and The Wilderness is required reading, I'm told, too.

My interest in this period comes from a set of maps, papers, and photographs I inherited from a great uncle who fought in WW1. We have pictures he took with a Brownie Kodak camera, and some postcards and picture sets he bought while he served in France. My mother still has the camera. I'm scanning in the materials to preserve them in digital form. I have some of his materials from after the war, too. (I'm trying find out what model year his navy blue Studebaker is from...!) All sorts of interesting stuff.

Thanks everybody for the posts and the insights.

Just spotted this link and found a copy here in England for about the price of a pint of beer! Thanks for that!

earlytalkiebuffRob · Post by **earlytalkiebuffRob** » Sun Nov 27, 2016 5:48 am

Gumlegs wrote:Some nice dancing in Half Shot at Sunrise.

Hey! The funny comedies have already been mentioned!

Not to mention a great title!

R Michael Pyle · Post by **R Michael Pyle** » Sun Nov 27, 2016 7:28 am

I didn't go through the list to check this, but has anyone mentioned the Brit film "Frail Women" (1932) directed by Maurice Elvey?

earlytalkiebuffRob · Post by **earlytalkiebuffRob** » Sun Nov 27, 2016 7:47 am

Derwiddian wrote:I might as well throw in a plug here for the 2002 two-episode TV remake of Dr. Zhivago. You won't get David Lean's majestic feel for landscapes and Omar Sharif's eyes won't light up the screen, but it is truer to the novel and you can't go to far wrong with Keira Knightley as Lara.

On the silent side, there is also Edison's The Unbeliever, made during the war and now buried deep in Kino's Edison box. Like other wartime efforts such as Hearts of the World and The Little American, do not expect a balanced view.

I watched THE UNBELIEVER [mute] on YT a few months back. It's still there!

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