Genre: World War I
Stories set in the First World War — the trenches, the scale of the slaughter, and the generation the Great War consumed.
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Reincarnation
Two souls keep finding each other across 82,000 years. In Richard Lowe's novel, a 1971 therapy regression in New Haven uncovers a connection that stretches from prehistoric East Africa to the moon, asking what it costs to recognize someone again and again across hundreds of lives. -
1917 (2019)
1917 is the best war film of the last twenty years. Sam Mendes directed it. Roger Deakins shot it. The whole movie is built to look like one unbroken... -
The Trench (1999)
The Trench is William Boyd's first and only film as director. He is better known as a novelist. The whole movie takes place in one British trench in the... -
Passchendaele (2008)
Passchendaele is Paul Gross's labor of love about the Third Battle of Ypres in 1917. He wrote it, directed it, produced it, and starred in it. The project... -
The Red Baron (2008)
The Red Baron is a German-produced biopic about Manfred von Richthofen filmed in English with German actors. That sentence describes most of what is right... -
Gallipoli (1981)
Gallipoli is one of the great anti-war films and one of the great Australian films. Peter Weir directed it. Mel Gibson and Mark Lee play Frank Dunne and... -
Admiral (2008)
Admiral is a Russian biopic about Aleksandr Kolchak, the Imperial Navy admiral who became Supreme Ruler of Russia during the civil war and was executed in... -
The Lost Battalion (1919)
The Lost Battalion from 1919 is a silent docudrama made within months of the actual event it depicts. Burton L. King directed it. The cast was the... -
Beneath Hill 60 (2010)
Beneath Hill 60 is an Australian war film about a part of the First World War nobody talks about. Jeremy Sims directed it. Brendan Cowell plays Captain... -
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Lawrence of Arabia is one of the four or five best films ever made. David Lean directed it. Peter O'Toole plays T.E. Lawrence in his first major film...