List of World War I films

This is an incomplete list of films about World War I. Template:Contains Cyrillic text

A staged scene from
The Battle of the Somme

Feature films

Year	Country	Main title	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject	*
1919	USA	The Lost Battalion		Burton L. King	The Lost Battalion	D
1919	Belgium	Martyred Belgium †·	La Belgique martyre Template:Fr Het gemartelde België Template:Nl	Charles Tutelier	Sufferings of Flemish peasant family under German occupation	D
1919	France	J'accuse		Abel Gance	Suffering brought by the war on a Provençal love triangle	D
1921	Germany	Lady Spy †·	Die Spionin	Ludwig Wolff	Mata Hari	D
1921	USA	The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse		Rex Ingram	An Argentinian family of mixed Franco-German heritage is divided by the outbreak of the war	D, R
1927	Germany	Mata Hari: the Red Dancer	Mata Hari, die rote Tänzerin	Friedrich Feher	Mata Hari	D
1927	Germany	Our Emden	Kreuzer Emden	Louis Ralph	SMS Emden	D
1927	USA	Wings		William A. Wellman	Two American pilots on the Western Front	D, R
1928	Canada	Carry on, Sergeant!		Bruce Bairnsfather	Canadian soldier and French waitress	R
1928	UK	Dawn		Herbert Wilcox	Edith Cavell	D
1928	USA	Four Sons		John Ford	Four Bavarian brothers, in the German and American armies	D
1930	USA	All Quiet on the Western Front		Lewis Milestone	German infantry on the Western Front	D
1930	USA	The Dawn Patrol		Howard Hawks	RFC pilots on the Western Front	A
1930	USA	Hell's Angels		Howard Hughes Edmund Goulding (uncredited) James Whale (uncredited)	RFC pilots on the Western Front	A
1930	USA	Journey's End		James Whale	British infantry on the Western Front	D
1930	Germany	Westfront 1918	Vier von der Infanterie	Georg Wilhelm Pabst	German infantry on the Western Front	D
1931	USA	Mata Hari		George Fitzmaurice	Mata Hari	D, R
1931	USA	Seas Beneath		John Ford	USN mystery ship seeks German U-boat	A
1932	USA	A Farewell to Arms		Frank Borzage	American soldier and British nurse	D, R
1932	Germany	Cruiser Emden	Kreuzer Emden	Louis Ralph	SMS Emden	D
1932	Germany Switzerland	Tannenberg	Original language please	Heinz Paul	The Battle of Tannenberg	A
1933	USA	The Eagle and the Hawk		Stuart Walker	British pilots	A, D
1937	France	Grand Illusion	La Grande Illusion	Jean Renoir	Two French POWs plot their escape	D
1938	USA	The Dawn Patrol		Edmund Goulding	RFC pilots on the Western Front	A
1938	USA	Men with Wings		William A. Wellman	US pilot on the Western Front	A
1941	USA	Sergeant York		Howard Hawks	Alvin C. York	A
1944	USA	Wilson		Henry King	Woodrow Wilson	D, R
1951	UK USA	The African Queen		John Huston	War in German East Africa	A, R
1952	USA	What Price Glory		John Ford	American infantry on the Western Front	M
1957	USA	A Farewell to Arms		Charles Vidor John Huston (uncredited)	American soldier and British nurse	D, R
1957	Soviet Union	And Quiet Flows the Don. Parts I and II	Russian please (Тихий Дон)	Sergei Gerasimov	Don Cossack village between 1912 and 1922	D
1957	USA	Paths of Glory		Stanley Kubrick	French infantry on the Western Front	D
1958	Soviet Union	And Quiet Flows the Don. Part III	Russian please (Тихий Дон II)	Sergei Gerasimov	Don Cossack village between 1912 and 1922	D
1959	France Italy	The Great War	La Grande Guerra	Mario Monicelli	Italian soldiers on the Venetian Front	C, D
1962	UK USA	Lawrence of Arabia		David Lean	T. E. Lawrence	A
1964	UK	King & Country		Joseph Losey	British soldier is tried for desertion	D
1964	France Italy	Mata Hari, agent H21	Original language please	Jean-Louis Richard	Mata Hari	D, R
1966	UK	The Blue Max		John Guillermin	German fighter pilot on the Western Front	A
1966	France	King of Hearts	Le Roi de Coeur	Philipe de Broca	Inmates of an insane asylum take over a village abandoned during the war	C
1969	Italy Yugoslavia	Fräulein Doktor	Original language please	Alberto Lattuada	Elsbeth Schragmüller	D
1969	UK	Oh! What a Lovely War		Richard Attenborough	Satirical chronicle of the war	M
1970	USA	Darling Lili		Blake Edwards	German female spy in Paris	M
1970	Italy Yugoslavia	Men against...	Uomini Contro	Francesco Rosi	Italian infantry on the Venetian Front	D
1971	USA	Johnny Got His Gun		Dalton Trumbo	Plight of a highly wounded soldier in a military hospital	D
1971	USA	Von Richthofen and Brown		Roger Corman	Air war on the Western Front	A
1971	UK	Zeppelin		Etienne Périer	British double agent	A, D
1976	UK	Aces High		Jack Gold	RFC on the Western Front	A
1976	France Ivory Coast	Black and White in Color	Noirs et Blancs en Couleur	Jean-Jacques Annaud	Impact of the war on the native populations of Africa	C, D
1976	UK	Shout at the Devil		Peter R. Hunt	War in East Africa	A
1981	Australia	Gallipoli		Peter Weir	Australian infantry in the Gallipoli Campaign	D
1983	Canada	The Wars		Robin Phillips	Canadian soldier on the Western Front	D
1985	USA	Mata Hari		Curtis Harrington	Mata Hari	D
1987	Australia	The Lighthorsemen		Simon Wincer	Australian cavalry in the Battle of Beersheba (1917)	D
1987	Soviet Union	Moonzund	Russian please (Моонзунд)	Valentin Pikul	Russian Captain and German female spy during the Battle of Moon Sound	D, R
1992	New Zealand	Chunuk Bair		Dale G. Bradley	Wellington Regiment at the Battle of Gallipoli	D
1992	UK	Hedd Wyn	Hedd Wyn Template:Cy icon	Paul Turner	Welsh poet Ellis Evans (Hedd Wyn) killed at the Battle of Passchendaele	D
1994	USA	Legends of the Fall		Edward Zwick	Montana family during the early 20th century	D
1996	France	Captain Conan	Capitaine Conan	Bertrand Tavernier	French occupation troops in Southeastern Europe after the surrender of Bulgaria	D
1996	USA	In Love and War		Richard Attenborough	Ernest Hemingway and Agnes von Kurowsky	R
1997	UK	Regeneration		Gillies MacKinnon	Siegfried Sassoon	D
1999	Ireland	The Trench		William Boyd	British soldiers at the Battle of the Somme	D
2004	Canada	A Bear Named Winnie		John Kent Harrison	Winnipeg the Bear	D, F
2004	USA	Company K		Robert Clem	American veteran writes about the company in which he served	D
2005	Belgium France Germany Romania UK	Joyeux Noël	French please	Christian Carion	Christmas truce of 1914	D, R
2006	USA	Flyboys		Tony Bill	The Lafayette Escadrille	A, D
2006	Japan	The Ode to Joy	Baruto no Gakuen	Masanobu Deme	German POWs in Japan	D
2006	UK	Quiet Flows the Don		Sergey Bondarchuk	Don Cossack during the war, the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War	D
2007	Canada	The Great War		Brian McKenna	Canadian infantry on the Western Front	D
2008	Turkey	120	Turkish please	Özhan Eren	Children supplying munition to the Ottoman troops during the Battle of Sarikamis	D
2008	Russia	Admiral	Russian please (Адмиралъ)	Andrey Kravchuk	Alexander Kolchak	D, R
2008	France	A Very Long Engagement	Un long dimanche de fiançailles	Jean-Pierre Jeunet	Parallel story of a French soldier MIA and his fiancée in rural Brittany	D
2008	UK	Einstein and Eddington		Philip Martin	Development of the Theory of Relativity	D
2008	USA	Haber		Daniel Ragussis	Fritz Haber	D
2008	Canada	Passchendaele		Paul Gross	Canadian infantry on the Western Front, and the Crucified Soldier	D
2008	Germany UK	The Red Baron	Der Rote Baron	Nicolai Müllerschön	Manfred von Richthofen	D, R
2010	Australia	Beneath Hill 60		Jeremy Sims	Oliver Woodward	D
2011	Croatia	Josef	Croatian please	Stanislav Tomic	Croat soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army	A
2011	USA	War Horse		Steven Spielberg	Devon youth and his horse on the Western Front	D

* Genre: Drama, Action/Adventure, Romance, Comedy, Musical, Family.

TV films

Year	Country	Main title	Original title	Director	Subject	*
1966	West Germany	The Mata Hari Case †·	Der Fall Mata Hari	Paul Verhoeven	Mata Hari	D
1979	USA	All Quiet on the Western Front		Delbert Mann	German infantry on the Western Front	D
1981	Netherlands	Mata Hari (miniseries)	Dutch please	John Van de Rest	Mata Hari	D
1982	Australia	1915 (miniseries)		Di Drew, Chris Thomson	Two rural Australians join the ANZACs	D
1985	Australia	Anzacs (miniseries)		Pino Amenta, John Dixon, George Miller	Australian infantry in Europe	D
1995	USA	Truman		Frank Pierson	Harry S. Truman	D
1999	UK USA	All the King's Men		Julian Jarrold	The Sandringham Company	D
2001	USA	The Lost Battalion		Russell Mulcahy	The Lost Battalion	A, D
2007	UK	My Boy Jack		Brian Kirk	Jack Kipling	D

* Genre: Drama, Action/Adventure, Romance, Comedy, Musical, Family.

Science fiction and fantasy

Year	Country	Main title	Original title	Director	Subject
1933	USA	Men Must Fight		Edgar Selwyn	Based on play.
2002	UK	Deathwatch		Mike Downey	British soldiers find a demonic being in a captured German trench
2011	USA	Sucker Punch		Zack Snyder	Heavily armed teenage girls on the Western Front

Documentary

Year	Country	Main title	Original title	Director	Subject
1916	UK	The Battle of the Somme		Geoffrey Malins John McDowell	British Army at the Battle of the Somme, 1916
1918	USA	The Sinking of the Lusitania		Winsor McCay	Animated. Sinking of the RMS Lusitania
2005	Turkey	Gallipoli	Gelibolu	Tolga Örnek	The Gallipoli campaign, as told by soldiers on both sides

Consequences

Anglo-Irish War and Irish Civil War

Year	Country	Main title	Original title	Director	Subject	*
2006	Ireland UK Germany Italy Spain France Belgium Switzerland	The Wind That Shakes the Barley		Ken Loach		D

Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War

Year	Country	Main title	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject	*
1934	Soviet Union	Chapaev	Chapaev (Чапаев)	Georgi Vasilyev, Sergei Vasilyev		A
1958	Soviet Union	And Quiet Flows the Don. Part III	Russian please (Тихий Дон II)	Sergei Gerasimov	Don Cossack village between 1912 and 1922	D
1967	Hungary	The Red and the White	Csillagosok, katonák	Miklós Jancsó		D

Turkish War of Independence

Year	Country	Main title	Original title	Director	Subject	*
1970	UK	You Can't Win 'Em All		Peter Collinson		A

This incomplete list is frequently updated to include new information.

See also

• List of films based on war books
• List of World War II films

References

Note

• ^† This English language title is a literal translation from its original foreign language title.
  This title should always be replaced by an English language release title when that information becomes available.