List of World War I films

This is a list of World War I films.

A staged scene from
The Battle of the Somme

Feature films

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject	*	☞
1918	US	Service !The Service Star (The Flag of Mothers)		Charles Miller	A young girl lies about being engaged to a pilot	D, L
1918	US	Shoulder Arms		Charlie Chaplin	Doughboy on the Western Front [1]	C
1918	US	Hearts of the World		D. W. Griffith		A,D
1918	US	The Heart of Humanity		Allen Holubar		A,D
1919	France	J'accuse		Abel Gance	Suffering brought by the war on a Provençal love triangle	D
1919	US	Lost !The Lost Battalion		Burton L. King	The Lost Battalion	D
1919	Belgium	Martyred Belgium †·	La Belgique martyre (French) Het gemartelde België (Dutch)	Charles Tutelier	Sufferings of Flemish peasant family under German occupation	D
1921	US	The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse		Rex Ingram	Argentinian family of mixed Franco-German heritage divided by the war's outbreak	D, R
1921	Weimar Republic	Lady Spy †·	Die Spionin	Ludwig Wolff	Spy Mata Hari	D
1925	US	The Big Parade		King Vidor	US Army's Rainbow Division	D, R	P, N
1926	US	What Price Glory?		Raoul Walsh	Rival United States Marines sergeants in France.	D, C	P
1927	US	Hotel Imperial		Mauritz Stiller	An Austrian officer separated from his army hides in the hotel of a frontier town occupied by the Russians with the help of the Hungarian chambermaid	D, R	P
1927	Weimar Republic	Mata Hari: the Red Dancer	Mata Hari, die rote Tänzerin	Friedrich Feher	Spy Mata Hari	D
1926	Weimar Republic	Our Emden	Kreuzer Emden	Louis Ralph	SMS Emden	D
1927	US	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	Nurse Edith Cavell	D
1928	US	Four Sons		John Ford	Four Bavarian brothers, in the German and American armies	D
1929	UK	Lost Patrol		Walter Summers	A British patrol is cornered at an oasis by enemy Arab tribesmen during the Mesopotamian campaign	A, D	N
1930	US	All Quiet on the Western Front		Lewis Milestone	German infantry on the Western Front	D	N
1930	US	The Dawn Patrol		Howard Hawks	RFC pilots on the Western Front	A
1930	US	Hell's Angels		Howard Hughes, Edmund Goulding (uncredited), James Whale (uncredited)	RFC pilots on the Western Front	A
1930	US	Journey's End		James Whale	British infantry on the Western Front	D
1930	US	Mamba		Albert S. Rogell	German East Africa
1930	Weimar Republic	Westfront 1918	Vier von der Infanterie	Georg Wilhelm Pabst	German infantry on the Western Front	D
1931	US	Mata Hari		George Fitzmaurice	Spy Mata Hari	D, R
1931	Weimar Republic  France	Mountains on Fire	Berge in Flammen (German)	Luis Trenker, Karl Hartl	Kaiserjäger in South Tyrol	D
1931	Weimar Republic  France	Mountains on Fire †·	Les monts en flammes (French)	Luis Trenker	Kaiserjäger in South Tyrol. Remake of Berge in Flammen	D
1931	US	Seas Beneath		John Ford	USN mystery ship seeks German U-boat	A
1931	Weimar Republic	Hell on Earth	Niemandsland	Victor Trivas	Soldiers from opposing sides trapped together.	D
1931	UK	Tell England		Anthony Asquith and Geoffrey Barkas	Gallipoli campaign.	A, D
1931	UK	East Lynne on the Western Front		George Pearson	British soldiers on the Western Front producing a play.	C
1932	Weimar Republic	Cruiser Emden	Kreuzer Emden	Louis Ralph	SMS Emden	D
1932	US	Doomed Battalion		Cyril Gardner	Kaiserjäger in South Tyrol. Remake of Berge in Flammen	D
1932	US	A Farewell to Arms		Frank Borzage	American soldier and British nurse	D, R	N
1932	US	Rasputin and the Empress		Richard Boleslawski	Grigori Rasputin	D, R	N
1932	France	Wooden Crosses	Les Croix de bois	Raymond Bernard		D, A	N
1932	Weimar Republic   Switzerland	Tannenberg	Tannenberg	Heinz Paul	The Battle of Tannenberg	A
1933	Weimar Republic (production) →  Nazi Germany(release)	Dawn	Morgenrot	Vernon Sewell, Gustav Ucicky	U-boat	D
1933	US	Ever in my Heart		Archie Mayo	American woman marries German national	D
1933	US	The Eagle and the Hawk		Stuart Walker	British pilots	A, D
1933	USSR	The Outskirts (The Patriots)	Okraina (Окраина)	Boris Barnet			S
1933	US	Storm at Daybreak		Richard Boleslawski	Romance and intrigue in a Hungarian town with a Serbian mayor, from the assassination of the Archduke to the aftermath of the war.	D, A	P
1933	US	Today We Live		Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson	A naval officer and an aviator compete for the same beautiful young woman.	D, R	A, S
1934	Nazi Germany	The Riders of German East Africa	Die Reiter von Deutsch-Ostafrika	Herbert Selpin	German East Africa [1]		N
1934	Nazi Germany	Shock Troop	Stoßtrupp 1917	Hans Zöberlein			N
1934	US	The Lost Patrol		John Ford	Remake of Lost Patrol	A, D	N
1935	Italy	Alpine Love	Le scarpe al sole	Marco Elter	Italian Alpini	D	N
1935	Italy	Territorial Militia †·	Milizia territoriale	Mario Bonnard		C
1936	Italy	13 Men and a Gun †·	13 uomini e un cannone	Giovacchino Forzano	13 Austrian artillerymen on the Russian front.	D
1936	Italy	Cavalry †·	Cavalleria	Goffredo Alessandrini	Italian fighter pilot	D
1936	US	The Road to Glory		Howard Hawks	Remake of Les Croix de bois, trench warfare on the Western Front	D, R	N
1937	France	Grand Illusion	La Grande Illusion	Jean Renoir	Two French POWs plot their escape	D
1938	Italy  UK	13 Men and a Gun		Mario Zampi	13 Austrian artillerymen on the Russian front. Remake of 13 uomini e un cannone.	D
1938	Italy  Nazi Germany	13 Men and a Gun †·	Dreizehn Mann und eine Kanone	Johannes Meyer	13 Austrian artillerymen on the Russian front. Remake of 13 uomini e un cannone.	D
1938	US	The Dawn Patrol		Edmund Goulding	RFC pilots on the Western Front	A
1938	US	Men with Wings		William A. Wellman	US pilot on the Western Front	A
1939	US	Hotel Imperial		Robert Florey	In a frontier town alternatively occupied by the Austrians and the Russians, a Polish woman joins a hotel as a maid to seek revenge on the Austrian officer that caused her sister's suicide.	D	P
1939	Nazi Germany	Uproar in Damascus	Aufruhr in Damaskus	Gustav Ucicky	German troops battling the Arab Revolt led by Lawrence of Arabia and the British	D
1940	US	The Fighting 69th		William Keighley	New York City's 69th Regiment, with Donovan (OSS) and Kilmer (poet)	D
1940	Australia	Forty Thousand Horsemen (40,000 Horsemen)		Charles Chauvel	Australian Light Horse at Beersheba	A
1940	Italy	Little Alpino †·	Piccolo alpino	Oreste Biancoli	Italian boy fights with the Alpini	D	N
1941	US	Sergeant York		Howard Hawks	Sgt. Alvin C. York	A
1943	UK	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp		Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger	An old-fashioned Boer War and World War I veteran struggles to uphold his sense of honor during World War II	R, C, D
1944	US	Wilson		Henry King	President Woodrow Wilson	D, R
1951	UK  US	The African Queen		John Huston	War in German East Africa	A, R
1951	Italy	The Caiman of the Piave †·	Il caimano del Piave	Giorgio Bianchi	Espionage on the front of the Piave river in 1918	D
1951	Italy	Feathers in the Wind †·	Piume al vento	Ugo Amadoro	Front of the Piave river (1917-1918) and Battle of Vittorio Veneto	D
1952	Italy	Brothers of Italy	Fratelli d'Italia	Fausto Saraceni	Nazario Sauro, Istrian Italian, fights against Austria	D
1952	Italy	The Legend of Piave †·	La leggenda del Piave	Riccardo Freda	Italian front	D
1952	US	What Price Glory		John Ford	American infantry on the Western Front	M
1953	US	The Royal African Rifles (Storm Over Africa)		Lesley Selander	British East Africa	A
1954	Italy	The Five of the Adamello †·	I cinque dell'Adamello	Pino Mercanti	Alpini	D
1955	Italy	Don't Cry, Beautiful Girl! †·	Bella non piangere!	David Carbonari	Enrico Toti in the Bersaglieri Corps	D
1957	US	A Farewell to Arms		Charles Vidor, John Huston (uncredited)	American soldier and British nurse	D, R	N
1957	USSR	And Quiet Flows the Don. Parts I and II	Tikhiy Don (Тихий Дон)	Sergei Gerasimov	Don Cossack village between 1912 and 1922	D	N
1957	US	Paths of Glory		Stanley Kubrick	French infantry on the Western Front	D	N
1958	USSR	And Quiet Flows the Don. Part II	Tikhiy Don II (Тихий Дон II)	Sergei Gerasimov	Don Cossack village between 1912 and 1922	D	N
1959	Italy  France	The Great War	La Grande Guerra	Mario Monicelli	Italian soldiers on the Venetian Front	C, D
1960	Germany	The Good Soldier Schweik	Der brave Soldat Schwejk	Axel von Ambesser	The passive resistance of a Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army	C	N
1962	UK  US	Lawrence of Arabia		David Lean	T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt	A
1964	UK	King & Country		Joseph Losey	British soldier tried for desertion	D
1964	Yugoslavia	March on the Drina	Marš na Drinu (Марш на Дрину)	Žika Mitrović	Battle of Cer [2]	A, D
1964	France  Italy	Mata Hari, agent H21	Mata Hari Agent H 21	Jean-Louis Richard	Spy 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	Fräulein Doktor	Alberto Lattuada	Elsbeth Schragmüller	D
1969	UK	Oh! What a Lovely War		Richard Attenborough	Satirical chronicle of the war	M
1970	US	Darling Lili		Blake Edwards	German female spy in Paris	M
1970	Italy  Yugoslavia	Many Wars Ago	Uomini Contro	Francesco Rosi	Italian infantry on the Venetian Front	D
1971	US	Johnny Got His Gun		Dalton Trumbo	Plight of a highly wounded soldier in a military hospital	D	N
1971	US	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	Australia	Break of Day		Ken Hannam	A wounded Gallipoli survivor returns to Australia	D
1976	UK	Shout at the Devil		Peter R. Hunt	War in East Africa	A
1978	Romania	Ecaterina Teodoroiu		Dinu Cocea	Ecaterina Teodoroiu	D, L	M
1981	Australia	Gallipoli		Peter Weir	Australian infantry in the Gallipoli Campaign	D
1981	Romania	The soldier's trap	Capcana mercenarilor	Sergiu Nicolaescu	Romanian Army in Romanian Front	D
1983	Canada	The Wars		Robin Phillips	Canadian soldier on the Western Front	D	N
1985	US	Mata Hari		Curtis Harrington	Spy Mata Hari	D
1987	Australia	The Lighthorsemen		Simon Wincer	Australian cavalry in the Battle of Beersheba (1917)	D
1987	USSR	Moonzund	Moonzund (Моонзунд)	Valentin Pikul	Russian Captain and German female spy during the Battle of Moon Sound	D, R
1989	France	Life and Nothing But	La vie et rien d'autre	Bertrand Tavernier	Identification of French soldiers missing in action after the war	D
1992	New Zealand	Chunuk Bair		Dale G. Bradley	Wellington Regiment at the Battle of Gallipoli	D
1992	Wales[3][4][5]	Hedd Wyn		Paul Turner	Welsh poet Ellis Evans (Hedd Wyn) killed at the Battle of Passchendaele	D
1994	US	Legends of the Fall		Edward Zwick	Montana family during the early 20th century	D
1996	Italy	The Border	La Frontiera	Franco Giraldi	Italian officer from Dalmatia deserts the Austrian Army, but is captured and executed	D	N
1996	France	Captain Conan	Capitaine Conan	Bertrand Tavernier	French occupation troops in Southeastern Europe after the surrender of Bulgaria	D
1996	US	In Love and War		Richard Attenborough	Ernest Hemingway and Agnes von Kurowsky	R
1997	UK	Regeneration		Gillies MacKinnon	Siegfried Sassoon	D	N
1999	UK  France	The Trench		William Boyd	British soldiers at the Battle of the Somme	D
1999	Romania	The Death Triangle	Triunghiul Morţii	Sergiu Nicolaescu	Romanian soldiers in 1917	D
2004	Canada	A Bear Named Winnie		John Kent Harrison	Winnipeg the Bear	D, F
2004	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
2004	US	Company K		Robert Clem	American veteran writes about the company in which he served	D
2005	Belgium  France  Germany  Romania  UK	Joyeux Noël	Merry Christmas	Christian Carion	Christmas truce of 1914	D, R
2006	US	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	N
2008	Russia	Admiral	Admiral (Адмиралъ)	Andrey Kravchuk	Alexander Kolchak	D, R
2008	UK	Einstein and Eddington		Philip Martin	Development of the Theory of Relativity	D
2008	Spain[6][7]	Flying Heroes / The Aviators	Cher Ami... ¡y yo!	Miquel Pujol	Animated film. Cher Ami is sent to help an American battalion trapped behind enemy lines.	F
2008	US	Haber		Daniel Ragussis	Fritz Haber	D
2008	Turkey	120	120	Özhan Eren	Children supplying munition to the Ottoman troops during the Battle of Sarikamish	D
2008	Canada	Passchendaele		Paul Gross	Canadian infantry on the Western Front, and the Crucified Soldier	D
2008	Germany  UK  US	The Red Baron	[8]	Nikolai Müllerschön	Baron Manfred von Richthofen	D, R
2009	Serbia	St. George Shoots the Dragon	Sveti Georgije ubiva aždahu (Свети Георгије убива аждаху)	Srđan Dragojević	Battle of Cer [9]	D	P
2009	Germany  Austria  France  Italy	The White Ribbon	Das weisse Band – Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (German)	Michael Haneke	Mysterious happenings in a German village in the lead up to the war	D
2010	Australia	Beneath Hill 60		Jeremy Sims	Oliver Woodward	D
2010	Turkey	Veda		Zülfü Livaneli	Salih Bozok with the trace of life with Mustafa Kemal	L	M
2011	Croatia	Josef	Josef	Stanislav Tomić	Croat soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army	A
2011	US  UK	War Horse		Steven Spielberg	Devon youth and his horse on the Western Front	D	C
2012	Turkey	Canakkale 1915 †·	Çanakkale 1915	Yesim Sezgin	Dardanelles Campaign and the ensuing Gallipoli Campaign, as seen from the Turkish side.	D
2012	UK	Private Peaceful		Pat O`Connor	Devon Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.	D	C
2012	Turkey	Sons of Çanakkale	Çanakkale Çocukları		Gallipoli Campaign: two brothers fight in 2 sides	F, D	C, M
2013	Turkey	The Long Way Home	Eve Dönüş: Sarıkamış 1915	Alphan Eşeli	Family during the Battle of Sarikamish	D, A
2013	Australia	Forbidden Ground		John Earl Adrian Powers	Three British soldiers stranded in no man's land	D, A, F, L	P, M
2013	Turkey	Gallipoli: End of the Road	Çanakkale: Yolun Sonu	Kemal Uzun	Turkish Sniper during Gallipoli Campaign	D, A	P
2014	Italy	Greenery Will Bloom Again	Torneranno i prati	Ermanno Olmi	War on the Asiago plateau at the end of 1917	D	S
2014	Singapore	Hearts From The Somme		James Stevens	Story of friends during the Battle of the Somme	D
2014	Austria  Italy  US	The Silent Mountain	Der stille Berg(German) La montagna silenziosa (Italian)	Ernst Gossner	Austrian soldier fights his way through the Alps to rescue his love and escape the impending explosion that will rock the mountain	D
2014	UK	Testament of Youth		James Kent	Vera Brittain, an independent young woman who abandoned her Oxford studies to become a war nurse	D, R	M
2015	Russia	Batal'on"	Battalion (Батальонъ)	Dmitry Meskhiev	1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death	D, R
2015	Italy	Private †·	Soldato semplice	Paolo Cevoli	Elementary teacher on the front after the Battle of Caporetto	C

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

☞ Source material: Novel, Play, Memoir, Book (non-fiction), Short story, Children's book, Verse (poetry), Article.

Television films and series

Year	Country	Main title	Original title	Director	Subject	*	☞
1966	West Germany  Netherlands	The Mata Hari Case†·	Der Fall Mata Hari	Paul Verhoeven	Spy Mata Hari	D
1974	UK	Fall of Eagles (miniseries)		John Elliot (creator)	The Habsburgs, the Hohenzollerns and the Romanovs to 1918	D, R
1976	US	Once an Eagle (miniseries)		Richard Michaels, E.W. Swackhamer	Two US Army officers	D, R	N
1977	UK	Wings		Jim Goddard Gareth Davis Donald McWhinnie Desmond Davis	Two British fighter pilots on the Western Front	D
1979	US  UK	All Quiet on the Western Front	Im Westen nichts Neues	Delbert Mann	German infantry on the Western Front	D	N
1981	Netherlands	Mata Hari (miniseries)	Mata Hari	John Van de Rest	Spy 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
1986	Italy  West Germany	Mino (miniseries)	Mino - Il piccolo alpino(Italian) Mino – Ein Junge zwischen den Fronten(German)	Gianfranco Albano	Italian boy fights with the Alpini	A, D
1992	US	Time !The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "London, May 1916" (aired March 11)		Carl Schultz	Wartime London	A, R
1992	US	Time !The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Verdun, September 1916" (aired March 25)		Rene Manzor	The Battle of Verdun	A, D
1992	US	Time !The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "German East Africa, December 1916" (aired April 1)		Simon Wincer	Colonial war in the Belgian Congo	A, D
1992	US	Time !The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Congo, January 1917" (aired April 8)		Simon Wincer	Albert Schweitzer in wartime Gabon	D
1992	US	Time !The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Austria, March 1917" (aired September 21)		Vic Armstrong	The Sixtus Affair	A
1992	US	Time !The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Somme, early August 1916" (aired September 28)		Simon Wincer	The Battle of the Somme	A, D
1992	US	Time !The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Germany, Mid-August 1916" (aired October 5)		Simon Wincer	Prison camps in Germany	A
1992	US	Time !The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Barcelona, May 1917" (aired October 12)		Terry Jones	Espionage in neutral Spain	C
1993	US	Time !The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Princeton, February 1916" (aired March 20)		Joe Johnston	German saboteurs in America	A
1993	US	Time !The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Petrograd, July 1917" (aired March 27)		Simon Wincer	Petrograd July Days	D
1993	US	Time !The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Northern Italy, June 1918" (aired April 17)		Bille August	Ernest Hemingway in the Italian Front	C
1993	US	Time !The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Young Indiana Jones and the Phantom Train of Doom" (aired June 5)		Peter MacDonald	War in German East Africa, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck	A
1993	US	Time !The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Ireland, April 1916" (aired June 12)		Gillies MacKinnon	The Easter Rebellion	A
1993	US	Time !The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Paris, October 1916" (aired July 10)		Nicolas Roeg	Spy Mata Hari	D, R
1993	US	Time !The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Istanbul, September 1918" (aired July 17)		Mike Newell	Spionage during the Fall of the Ottoman Empire	D
1993	US	Time !The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Paris, May 1919" (aired July 24)		David Hare	The Treaty of Versailles	D
1993	US	Time !Tom and Jerry Kids "Mouse with a Message" (aired September 9)		Carl Ubano	Pilots in Western Front, 1918	C
1995	US	Time !The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Young Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Peacock's Eye" (aired January 15)		Carl Schultz	Armistice with Germany (prologue)	A
1995	US	Time !The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Young Indiana Jones and the Attack of the Hawkmen" (aired October 8)		Ben Burtt	Air war on the Western Front	A
1995	US	Truman		Frank Pierson	Harry S. Truman, US Army	D	B
1996	US	Time !The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Prague, August 1917" (unaired)		Robert Young	Espionage, Franz Kafka	C
1996	US	Time !The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Palestine, October 1917" and "Palestine 1917" (unaired)		Simon Wincer	The Battle of Beersheba	A
1996	US	Time !The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Morocco 1917" (unaired)		Michael Schultz	The Zaian Revolt	A, R
1999	UK  US	All the King's Men		Julian Jarrold	The Sandringham Company	D	B
2001	US	The Lost Battalion		Russell Mulcahy	The Lost Battalion	A, D
2005	Russia	The Fall of the Empire	Гибель Империи (Gibel Imperii)	Vladimir Khotinenko	The Russian Revolution	D	S
2007	Italy	Love and War†·	L'amore e la guerra	Giacomo Campiotti	Inspired to Rudyard Kipling's The War in the Mountains and Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms	D	B, N
2007	UK	My Boy Jack		Brian Kirk	Rudyard Kipling's son Jack at the Battle of Loos	D	P, V
2007	Canada	The Great War		Brian McKenna	Canadian infantry on the Western Front	D
2008	Syria  Lebanon  United Arab Emirates  Qatar	Lawrence Al Arab	لورانس العرب	Thaer Mousa	T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt	D	M, S
2009	Turkey	The Thoroughfare of Çanakkale†·	Çanakkale Geçilmez		Gallipoli Campaign: a flashbacks story between two friends (one has died)	M
2012	UK	Birdsong		Philip Martin	British officer recounts the days he spent with his lover before the war during the Battle of the Somme	D	N
2012	Russia	Passion for Chapay	Страсты по Чапаю		Future Soviet officer Vasily Chapayev at the World War I	D, A
2013	Belgium	In Flanders Fields	In Vlaamse Velden	Jan Matthys		D
2013	Germany	Odyssey of Heroes	Die Männer der Emden	Berengar Pfahl	SMS Emden	D, A
2014	NZ	Field Punishment No 1		Peter Burger	Four brothers who are conscientious objectors are deported to the front in France and successfully refuse military service and oppose military inhumanity even confronted with cruel field punishment	D
2014	Australia	ANZAC Girls			Australian women at the Western Front	D	M
2015	Italy	Mud and Glory - The Great War†·	Fango e gloria - La Grande Guerra	Leonardo Tiberi	Fictional story of the war experiences of the Italian unknown soldier	D
2015	Australia	Deadline Gallipoli		Michael Rymer	The Gallipoli Campaign from the point of view of war correspondents Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, Phillip Schuler and Keith Murdoch.	D
2015	France	Deserters	Les fusillés	Philippe Triboit	The adventure of two men as they struggle to prove their innocence in front of the firing line during the Great War[10]

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

☞ Source material: Novel, Play, Memoir, Book (non-fiction), Short story, Children's book, Verse (poetry), Article.

(Science) fiction and fantasy

Year	Country	Main title	Original title	Director	Subject	☞
1916	Italy	The Warrior	Maciste alpino	Luigi Romano Borgnetto, Luigi Maggi	A soldier of near-superhuman strength fights battles in the First World War and rescues a young woman from the castle where she is imprisoned.
1933	US	Men Must Fight		Edgar Selwyn	A nurse raises her child as a pacifist after her pilot lover is killed in the war. Twenty years later, another world war breaks out.	P
1966	US	Time !The Time Tunnel "The Ghost of Nero" (1967 episode)			Time travellers meet Cpl. Benito Mussolini in 1915
1972	US	New Scooby !The New Scooby-Doo Movies "The Ghost of the Red Baron" (1972 episode)			The ghost of von Richthofen threatens the Three Stooges
1986	UK	Biggles		John Hough	A 20th century salesman time-travels back to 1917 and meets pilot "Biggles".	C
1996	US	Time !The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles "Transylvania, January 1918" (unaired episode)		Dick Maas	Young Indiana Jones runs into a mysterious Romanian general that might be a vampire
2002	UK	Deathwatch		Michael J. Bassett	British soldiers find a demonic being in a captured German trench
2011	US	Sucker Punch		Zack Snyder	In one dream sequence, heavily armed teenage girls on the Western Front

☞ Source material: Novel, Play, Memoir, Book (non-fiction), Short story, Children's book, Verse (poetry), Article.

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	US	The Sinking of the Lusitania		Winsor McCay	Animated. Sinking of the RMS Lusitania
1934	Italy	Gloria - The Great War †·	Gloria - La grande guerra	Roberto Omegna	Italy in World War I
2005	Turkey	Gallipoli	Gelibolu	Tolga Örnek	The Gallipoli campaign, as told by soldiers on both sides

Derived conflicts

Anglo-Irish War and Irish Civil War

Year	Country	Main title	Original title	Director	Subject	*	☞
1941	Nazi Germany	My Life for Ireland	Mein Leben für Irland	Max W. Kimmich	The son of an Irish rebel is sent to an English boarding school for re-education	D
2006	Ireland  UK	The Wind That Shakes the Barley		Ken Loach	Two Cork brothers join the IRA	D

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

☞ Source material: Novel, Play, Memoir, Book (non-fiction), Short story, Children's book, Verse (poetry), Article.

Soviet stamp honouring film Chapaev

Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject	*	☞
1927	US	Mockery		Benjamin Christensen	A mentally challenged peasant saves a countess, then obsesses over her	D
1928	USSR	October: Ten Days That Shook the World (October)	Oktyabr': Desyat' dney kotorye potryasli mir (Октябрь (Десять дней, которые потрясли мир))	Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov	October Revolution of 1917	D	B
1929	USSR	Arsenal	Arsenal (Арсенал) / Yanvarskoye vosstaniye v Kiyeve v 1918 godu (Январское восстание в Киеве в 1918 году)	Alexander Dovzhenko	Kiev Arsenal January Uprising in 1918
1934	USSR	Chapaev	Chapaev (Чапаев)	Georgi Vasilyev, Sergei Vasilyev	Red Army hero Vasily Chapayev	A	N
1937	UK	Knight Without Armour (Knight Without Armor)		Jacques Feyder	British agent saves Russian countess from the bolsheviks	D	N
1939	USSR	Shchors	Shchors (Щopc)	Alexander Dovzhenko, Yuliya Solntseva	Partisan leader Nikolai Shchors
1958	USSR	And Quiet Flows the Don	Tikhii Don (Тихий Дон)	Sergei Gerasimov	Don Cossack village between 1912 and 1922	D
1967	Hungary  USSR	The Red and the White	Csillagosok, katonák	Miklós Jancsó	Hungarian Communist volunteers in the Russian Civil War	D
1968	USSR	Two army comrads	Служили два товарища	Eugine Karelov	Drama of the Russian Civil War	D
1970	USSR	White Sun of the Desert	Beloye solntse pustyni (Белое солнце пустыни)	Vladimir Motyl	The Basmachi revolt	A
2005	Russia	Nine Lives of Nestor Makhno (miniseries)	Devyat zhizney Nestora Makhno (Девять жизней Нестора Махно)	Nikolai Kapta	Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Makhno	D

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

☞ Source material: Novel, Play, Memoir, Book (non-fiction), Short story, Children's book, Verse (poetry), Article.

Grigori Rasputin

Year	Country	Main title	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject	*	☞
1996	US	Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (TV)		Uli Edel	His last four years (1912–16)	D

Turkish War of Independence

Year	Country	Main title	Original title	Director	Subject	*	☞
1970	UK	You Can't Win 'Em All		Peter Collinson	Two American veterans join a gang of Turkish mercenaries in an escort mission	A
2007	Turkey	The Last Ottoman: Knockout Ali	Son Osmanlı Yandım Ali	Mustafa Şevki Doğan	Discharged Ottoman Navy veteran joins Mustafa Kemal's army	A
2014	Australia  Turkey  US	The Water Diviner		Russell Crowe	Australian farmer travels to Turkey to try to locate his three missing sons who went missing in the Battle of Gallipoli.	A	N

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

☞ Source material: Novel, Play, Memoir, Book (non-fiction), Short story, Children's book, Verse (poetry), Article.

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
• The Last Outpost (1935 film)

Notes

References