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Genre: World War I

The Great War on film: trenches, futility, and a generation’s disillusionment. World War I movie reviews for a conflict cinema keeps underestimating.

Passchendaele (2008) film posterTrue Story

Passchendaele (2008)

The project was inspired by stories his grandfather told him about fighting in the mud of Belgium. Gross plays Sergeant Michael Dunne, a Canadian veteran of Vimy Ridge sent home with combat fatigue.

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Gallipoli (1981)

Gallipoli is one of the great anti-war films and one of the great Australian films. Mel Gibson and Mark Lee play Frank Dunne and Archy Hamilton, two young men from Western Australia who enlist in the Light Horse for different…

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Admiral (2008) film posterWorld War I

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 1920 by a Bolshevik tribunal. Kolchak commands a minelayer that catches a German cruiser.

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Zeppelin (1971)

Michael York plays Lieutenant Geoffrey Richter-Douglas, a half-German British officer recruited to defect to the Germans so he can spy on their new super-zeppelin program. You watch Zeppelin for the airships.

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Sergeant York (1941)

Sergeant York is a propaganda film that happens to also be a great film. The film came out in July 1941, five months before Pearl Harbor, and it pushed America toward war.

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