Paths of Glory (1957) Stanley Kubrick film

Very anti-war message focusing on the futility and stupidity of WWI tactics used by the generals. Kirk Douglas is excellent as the scapegoat of the generals.

Good movie, worth watching.

Gallipoli
All Quiet on the Western Front - both versions are great imho.
The Eagle and the Hawk

Here’s another Aussie movie you might want to checkout if you can find it.

The Lighthorsemen is a 1987 Australian feature film about the men of a World War I light horse unit involved in Sinai and Palestine Campaign's 1917 Battle of Beersheeba. The film is based on a true story and most of the characters in the film were based on real people.

2BobTanner beat me to it! Great movie!

There's some good ones already mentioned; here's a few more obscure ones:

"ANZACS". I think this is actually from a TV series packaged as a movie. (Sort of like "Lonesome Dove".) Great flick, featuring tanks, Lewis guns, and Crocodile Dundee (Paul Hogan).

"Westfront 1918 - Vier Von Der Infanterie". I first saw this in a motel room at about two in the morning on TCM and later tracked down a DVD. It's a circa 1930 German film along the lines of "All Quiet on the Western Front."

"Stosstrupp 1917". Released in 1934; funded and supported by the Nazi government, called "Hitler's Cinematic Response to Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front". Propaganda with good action.

"Berge in Flammen" (Mountains in Flames). Remarkable film from 1931 about Austrians and Italians fighting in the Tyrol Alps. Cinematography ahead of it's time. (Hitler didn't like this one, either.)

I'm not sure it they're still in business, but "Belle and Blade" used to be a great source for military films and documentaries.

Passchendaele (2007). From a DVD I have that is marked “Combat Movie Classics” and “War Collection”

Movie is pre USA involvement with Canadian Expeditionary Forces being over there fighting and back home in Canada. Well done and provokes some thoughts.

Seems to be available as a movie on utube - search “Passchendaele full movie”

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"The Water Diviner" is another good choice.

And if you don't mind subtitles, I recommend the French film "A Very Long Engagement".


Neither are exactly "war movies", with both having to do with family members after the war trying to piece together what happened to their loved ones during the war, but they're both well done and they both include combat scenes.

I saw the Water Diviner, it was quite good. And I don't mind subtitles, so I'll check out the Frenchie film. Thanks!

Another decent movie I found on Amazon is called Regeneration. And I ordered a dvd of The Lighthorsemen, looking forward to this.

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Originally posted by akcopnfbks:

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
"The Water Diviner" is another good choice.

And if you don't mind subtitles, I recommend the French film "A Very Long Engagement".


Neither are exactly "war movies", with both having to do with family members after the war trying to piece together what happened to their loved ones during the war, but they're both well done and they both include combat scenes.

I saw the Water Diviner, it was quite good. And I don't mind subtitles, so I'll check out the Frenchie film. Thanks!

+1 for the Water Diviner,

I watched it a few times in the past few months on a cable show,

a bit post war, that looks back at the war, with some Turk issues as well


good flick

I can think of "WarHorse", and "Joyeux Noel" (the later about the Christmas Truce of 1914; very well done.
Also, about 25 years ago, there was a TV series called "Young Indiana Jones". Several episodes dealt with WWI including one about combat on the Western front. Production values for the series were way beyond normal TV fair and the episodes were amazing, I recall.

There's a recent BBC movie called "The Wipers Times" that used to be streaming on Netflix, but looks like it was removed at some point recently. It's based on a true story about a group of British soldiers who created a satirical newspaper to lighten the mood of their unit while holding the line at Ypers.


And Netflix does still have the recent 3 episode BBC miniseries "Our World War" available for streaming, which consists of three hour-long dramatizations based on the first-hand accounts of 3 real life British soldiers in WW1.


There was also a recent HBO miniseries "Parade's End" with Benedict Cumberbatch, which takes place partly during WW1. It's very well done. Might not be what you're looking for, though. While the second half does involve the main character's time at the front during WW1, it's mostly a drama about Edwardian aristocracy. Looks like it's available with Amazon Prime Video, or through HBO Go/HBO Now.