Topic: World War I

Direction Daniel Costelle · Isabelle Clarke

Cast Mathieu Kassovitz

Plot Culled from more than 500 hours of archival material, unfolding in five 52-minute installments, 'Apocalypse WWI' takes us to the battlefields, inside the minds of those who govern, and to...

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Kirk Douglas · George Macready · Adolphe Menjou · Ralph Meeker

Plot Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas) is the commander of the battle-decimated 701st Infantry Regiment of the French Army, dug in along the Western Front in a stalemated WWI. It is 1916...

Direction Maurice Pialat

Cast Pierre Doris · Jacqueline Dufranne · Agathe Natanson · Henri Puff

Plot TV miniseries (1971). 7 episodes. An acclaimed mini-series that takes place during World War I and tells about the daily life in a French village, a realistic chronicle of everyday...

Direction David Lean

Cast Peter O'Toole · Omar Sharif · Alec Guinness · Jack Hawkins

Plot While working on the staff of the British Intelligence in Cairo in 1916, Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) is sent to a mission to establish contact with Prince Feisal (Alec Guinness), leader...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Lionel Barrymore · Nancy Carroll · Phillips Holmes · Louise Carter

Plot A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt whenever he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the...

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Jean Gabin · Erich von Stroheim · Pierre Fresnay · Marcel Dalio

Plot 1916, during World War I. Lieutenant Maréchal and Capitaine de Boeldieu are two combat pilots who are shot down by the Germans. They are taken to a prisoner of war...

Direction Richard Curtis · Ben Elton · Richard Boden

Cast Rowan Atkinson · Tony Robinson · Stephen Fry · Hugh Laurie

Plot TV Series (1989). 6 episodes. Stuck in the middle of World War I, Captain Edmund Blackadder does his best to escape the banality of the war.

Direction John Huston

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Katharine Hepburn · Robert Morley · Peter Bull

Plot Based on the 1935 novel by C.S. Forester. The boozing, smoking, cussing captain of a tramp steamer, Charlie Allnut (Bogart), saves prim, sober, and proper missionary Rose Sayer (Hepburn), "a...

Direction King Vidor

Cast John Gilbert · Renée Adorée · Hobart Bosworth · Claire McDowell

Plot The film follows, three men Bull, Slim and Jim (Gilbert). Jim is a rich man's son who has never had a days work in his life. When WWI one breaks...

Direction Yervant Gianikian · Angela Ricci Lucchi

Plot The film consists of material shot during the 1914- 1918 World War, collected into the archives of the great Empires involved in the clash, and mainly the Tsarist and Austro-Hungarian...

Direction Marcus Kiggell · Simon Rockell · Ben Steele · Corina Sturmer

Plot In 1914, decades of building European resentments and rivalries finally exploded into a massive total war that became much larger and bloodier for far longer than anyone could have imagined....

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Lew Ayres · Louis Wolheim · John Wray · Arnold Lucy

Plot A realistic anti-war epic based on the pacifist novel by Erich Maria Remarque. Seven German youths enthusiastically join the German army after a professor preaches the glories of war. The...

Direction Yervant Gianikian · Angela Ricci Lucchi

Direction Sam Mendes

Cast George MacKay · Dean-Charles Chapman · Mark Strong · Richard Madden

Plot Two young British soldiers during the First World War are given an impossible mission: deliver a message deep in enemy territory that will stop 1,600 men, and one of the...

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Janet Gaynor · Charles Farrell · Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams · Paul Fix

Plot Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where he...

Direction Dalton Trumbo

Cast Timothy Bottoms · Jason Robards · Donald Sutherland · Marsha Hunt

Plot A young American soldier, hit by a shell on the last day of the First World War, lies in a hospital bed, a quadruple amputee who has lost his eyes,...

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Alberto Sordi · Vittorio Gassman · Silvana Mangano · Folco Lulli

Plot Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving...

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Jeanette MacDonald · Brian Aherne · Gene Raymond · Ian Hunter

Plot John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, the 5 year old orphaned...

Direction Liviu Ciulei

Cast Victor Rebengiuc · Anna Széles · Stefan Ciubotarasu · György Kovács

Plot Romanian actor and director Liviu Ciulei’s Pădurea Spânzuratilor (The Forest of the Hanged) adapted from a novel by Liviu Rebreanu, appeared in competition at Cannes in 1965 where it received...

Direction Richard Curtis · Rowan Atkinson · Martin Shardlow · Geoff Posner

Cast Rowan Atkinson · Stephen Frost · Tim McInnerny · Tony Robinson

Plot TV Series (1983-1989). 4 Seasons. 25 Episodes. Set in England at the end of the War of the Roses, we soon find out that the history we know is a...