1917 (2019)
1917 is the best war film of the last twenty years. The whole movie is built to look like one unbroken.
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.
World War IThe Trench (1999)
The Trench is William Boyd's first and only film as director. He is better known as a novelist.
True StoryPasschendaele (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.
World War IThe 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.
World War IGallipoli (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…
World War IAdmiral (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.
World War IThe Lost Battalion (1919)
The Lost Battalion from 1919 is a silent docudrama made within months of the actual event it depicts. Major Charles Whittlesey appears as himself.
True StoryBeneath Hill 60 (2010)
Beneath Hill 60 is an Australian war film about a part of the First World War nobody talks about. Brendan Cowell plays Captain.
EpicLawrence of Arabia (1962)
Lawrence in his first major film. Lawrence in his first major film role.
World War IWings (1927)
Wings is the first film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. It is also the only silent film to win that award.
World War IZeppelin (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.
True StorySergeant 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.