Here we've displayed a list of the best World War I films : The Great Dictator(1940), Paths of Glory(1957), Lawrence of Arabia(1962), They Shall Not Grow Old(2018), 1917(2019), All Quiet on the Western Front(1930), Doctor Zhivago(1965), Random Harvest(1942), East of Eden(1955), Johnny Got His Gun(1971), The Big Parade(1925), Jules and Jim(1962) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1940
128 Minutes
Charles Chaplin Paulette Goddard Jack Oakie Reginald Gardiner Henry Daniell Billy Gilbert Maurice Moscovich Emma Dunn Grace Hayle Carter DeHaven Bernard Gorcey
barber dictator girl adviser hilarious cheeky dark incredible europe airplane hospital barbershop government offices stadium anti-semitism fascism persecution propaganda world war i loyalty
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
War, Drama
USA
1957
86 Minutes
Kirk Douglas Ralph Meeker Adolphe Menjou George Macready Wayne Morris Richard Anderson Timothy Agoglia Carey Christiane Kubrick Bert Freed
military officer soldier bleak gutsy passionate france battlefield military base horrors of war world war i battle fatigue wretched excess sacrifice fall 1910s
After refusing to attack an enemy position, a general accuses the soldiers of cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them.
Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
UK
1962
216 Minutes
Peter O'Toole Alec Guinness Anthony Quinn Omar Sharif Jack Hawkins Jose Ferrer Claude Rains Anthony Quayle Arthur Kennedy Donald Wolfit I.S. Johar
journalist prince soldier military officer spectacular profound army base desert arabia world war i armed conflict culture clash redemption man vs. nature t.e. lawrence quest rise 1910s
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
Documentary, War, Drama, History
UK|New Zealand
2018
99 Minutes
soldier army recruit british officer british soldier british soldiers german soldier german troops bleak emotional moving patriotic powerful sad somber war zone france belgium united kingdom trenches training camp
A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.
War, Drama, History
USA|UK|India|Spain|Canada|China
2019
119 Minutes
George MacKay Dean-Charles Chapman Mark Strong Andrew Scott Richard Madden Claire Duburcq Colin Firth Benedict Cumberbatch Daniel Mays Adrian Scarborough Jamie Parker
british soldier young man corporal brother confident emotional gripping passionate rousing battlefield ruins occupied france following orders world war i rescue race against time delivery message adventure pursuit
April 6th, 1917. As a regiment assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.
War
USA
1930
105 Minutes
Lew Ayres Louis Wolheim John Wray Raymond Griffith Slim Summerville Russell Gleason William Bakewell Scott Kolk Walter Rogers Ben Alexander Owen Davis Jr.
soldier teacher drillmaster student military officer dark brutal profound germany school boot camp trading post trenches world war i patriotism horrors of war growing up adventure 1910s
A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.
Romance, War, Drama, History
Italy|UK|USA
1965
197 Minutes
Omar Sharif Julie Christie Geraldine Chaplin Tom Courtenay Alec Guinness Rod Steiger Siobhan McKenna Ralph Richardson Rita Tushingham Adrienne Corri Geoffrey Keen
doctor brother niece wife politician mistress passionate emotional tender russia moscow siberia world war i russian revolution doomed romance politics marriage poetry forbidden love discovery
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Drama
USA
1942
124 Minutes
Ronald Colman Greer Garson Philip Dorn Susan Peters Reginald Owen Henry Travers Margaret Wycherly Bramwell Fletcher Arthur Margetson Jill Esmond Marta Linden
veteran showgirl fiancée sibling doctor government official emotional passionate england mental institution music hall household small town amnesia world war i car crash inheritance election relationships love
An amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.
Drama
USA
1955
115 Minutes
James Dean Julie Harris Raymond Massey Jo Van Fleet Burl Ives Richard Davalos Albert Van Dekker Lois Smith Harold Gordon Nick Dennis Rose Plumer
son brother father mother girlfriend emotional intense california farm carnival brothel jealousy family farming world war i love triangle relationships rivalry quest love
Two brothers struggle to maintain their strict, Bible-toting father's favor.
Drama
USA
1971
111 Minutes
Timothy Bottoms Kathy Fields Marsha Hunt Jason Robards Donald Sutherland Diane Varsi
soldier nurse doctor girlfriend father bleak brooding disturbing powerful hospital battlefield world war i amputation disability euthanasia memory veterans sacrifice transformation fall
In this tragic, dark, anti-war satire, a patriotic young American in WW1 is rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack. Trapped in what's left of his body, he desperately looks for a way to end his life.
War
USA
1925
126 Minutes
John Gilbert Renée Adorée Hobart Bosworth Claire McDowell Claire Adams Karl Dane Robert Ober Tom O'Brien Rosita Marstini
soldier father mother ingénue brother girlfriend emotional melodramatic france battlefield countryside family home farm world war i horrors of war young love family growing up love quest
A young American soldier witnesses the horrors of the Great War.
Drama
France
1962
110 Minutes
Jeanne Moreau Oskar Werner Henri Serre Marie Dubois Vanna Urbino Sabine Haudepin Bassiak Kate Noelle
author friend wife daughter emotional endearing paris austria love triangle friendship infidelity world war i forbidden love rivalry 1920s
Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.
Romance
USA
1940
103 Minutes
Vivien Leigh Robert Taylor Lucile Watson C. Aubrey Smith Maria Ouspenskaya Virginia Field Leo G. Carroll Clara Reid Steffi Duna Leonard Mudie Herbert Evans
officer ballerina prostitute mother friend uncle emotional passionate london estate countryside underground apartment waterloo bridge world war i prostitution deception heartbreak struggle romance
During World War I, believing her fiance to be dead, a young ballerina loses her job and is forced to turn to prostitution.
Drama
USA
1944
145 Minutes
Bette Davis Claude Rains Walter Abel Richard Waring George Coulouris Marjorie Riordan Robert Shayne John Alexander Jerome Cowan Dorothy Peterson Peter Whitney
beautiful woman stockbroker army recruit suitor husband wife emotional moving sad dinner party bedroom household vanity world war i marriage concentration camp blindness secret sacrifice love
Popular and beautiful Fanny Trellis is forced into a loveless marriage with an older man, Jewish banker Job Skeffington, in order to save her beloved brother Trippy from an embezzlement charge.
Adventure
UK|USA
1951
105 Minutes
Humphrey Bogart Katharine Hepburn Robert Morley Peter Bull Theodore Bikel Walter Gotell
spinster captain enemy sailor inspiring emotional dreamy africa river river patrol boat ship world war i revenge journey family revenge rivalry pursuit 1910s
In WWI Africa, a gin-swilling riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship.
Kids & Family, Drama
USA
1995
97 Minutes
Eleanor Bron Liam Cunningham Liesel Matthews Rusty Schwimmer Arthur Malet Vanessa Lee Chester Errol Sitahal Heather DeLoach Taylor Fry
daughter father headmistress endearing fascinating emotional new york city boarding school friendship world war i school family growing up rescue 1910s
A young girl is relegated to servitude at a boarding school when her father goes missing and is presumed dead.
Romance, Mystery & Thriller, War, Drama
France|USA
2004
134 Minutes
Audrey Tautou Gaspard Ulliel Jean-Pierre Becker Dominique Bettenfeld Clovis Cornillac Marion Cotillard Jodie Foster Jean-Claude Dreyfus Albert Dupontel André Dussollier Ticky Holgado
soldier sargeant lieutenant bureaucrat dreamy disturbing france world war i torture faith love mystery pursuit 1910s
Tells the story of a young woman's relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.
Comedy
USA
1938
55 Minutes
Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy Patricia Ellis Minna Gombell Billy Gilbert James Finlayson
war hero best friend veteran wife neighbor hunter charming hysterical wild apartment france trenches friendship world war i accident modernization adventure rescue 1930s
Stan, who has remained faithfully at his World War I post for twenty years, finally comes home where his best friend, Ollie, takes him in, thus allowing him to discover the many conveniences of the modern world.
Drama
USA
1932
77 Minutes
Lionel Barrymore Nancy Carroll Phillips Holmes Lucien Littlefield Tom Douglas Frank Sheridan Louise Carter Tully Marshall
musician priest doctor wife daughter crafty touching france church germany small town guilt world war i moral dilemma deception quest transformation love 1910s
French soldier travels to Germany to find a family of a man he killed during World War I.
War, Drama
USA
1938
103 Minutes
Errol Flynn David Niven Basil Rathbone Donald Crisp Melville Cooper Barry Fitzgerald Carl Esmond Peter Willes Morton Lowater Michael Brooke James Burke
commander military officer pilot brutal rousing france military base horrors of war dangerous job air force friendship death world war i sacrifice transformation rivalry 1910s
British flying aces in World War I contend with the harsh realities of war.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2003
109 Minutes
Michael Caine Robert Duvall Haley Joel Osment Kyra Sedgwick Nicky Katt Michael O'Neill Emmanuelle Vaugier Christian Kane
teenager mother bachelor great-uncle cousin princess lighthearted quirky uplifting farm africa texas coming of age world war i lost loves old age family history adventure growing up love
A coming-of-age story about a shy, young boy sent by his irresponsible mother to spend the summer with his wealthy, eccentric uncles in Texas.
Drama, History
France|Germany
2016
113 Minutes
Pierre Niney Paula Beer Ernst Stötzner Marie Gruber Johann von Bülow Anton von Lucke Cyrielle Claire Alice De Lencquesaing
widow veteran mysterious man soldier confident dreamy emotional intense france house lake train station world war i grief love friendship love triangle life after wartime love discovery
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé's grave to lay flowers.
War, Drama
Germany
1930
90 Minutes
Fritz Kampers Gustav Diessl Claus Clausen Gustav Püttjer Jackie Monnier Hanna Hoessrich Else Heller Aribert Mog Vladimir Sokoloff
lieutenant student soldier wife mother friend brooding dark disheartening somber france trenches battlefield village germany world war i horrors of war disillusionment death military life
A group of German solders fight on the front line in France at the end of World War I.
Drama
Australia
1981
110 Minutes
Mark Lee Mel Gibson Bill Kerr Ron Graham Harold Hopkins Charles Yunupingu Heath Harris Gerda Nicolson Robert Grubb Tim McKenzie David Argue
teenager soldier messenger gory gripping gutsy australia battlefield turkey egypt world war i friendship duty adventure growing up sacrifice 1910s
Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.
War
UK
1964
86 Minutes
Dirk Bogarde Tom Courtenay Leo McKern Barry Foster Peter Copley James Villiers Jeremy Spenser Barry Justice
private captain military officer lawyer gritty bleak england battlefield courtroom horrors of war world war i desertion trial military trauma fall underdog 1910s
During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial, Captain Hargreaves, finds out there is more to the case than meets the eye.
Drama, War, History, Biography
UK|Denmark
2014
129 Minutes
Alicia Vikander Kit Harington Taron Egerton Colin Morgan Emily Watson Dominic West Hayley Atwell Miranda Richardson Anna Chancellor Charlotte Hope Joanna Scanlan
writer headmaster wealthy woman aunt heartwarming emotional engaging inspiring united kingdom oxford university world war i pacifism discovery transformation sacrifice love 1910s
A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I - a story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times.
Drama
USA|UK|Canada
1981
195 Minutes
Warren Beatty Diane Keaton Jack Nicholson Maureen Stapleton Edward Herrmann Jerzy Kosinski Paul Sorvino Nicolas Coster Ian Wolfe Bessie Love MacIntyre Dixon
communist journalist activist playwright politician fascinating intricate moving russia chicago greenwich village portland, ore. communism world war i love revolution discovery fall 1910s
A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.
Romance
USA
1938
98 Minutes
Robert Taylor Margaret Sullavan Franchot Tone Robert Young Guy Kibbee Lionel Atwill Henry Hull George Zucco Charley Grapewin Monty Woolley Spencer Charters
soldier dying person doctor mistress sad charming emotional germany inn restaurant world war i tuberculosis automotive industry male bonding love sacrifice 1930s
The close friendship of three German soldiers is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman, who is dying of tuberculosis.
War
USA
1921
132 Minutes
Rudolph Valentino Alice Terry Pomeroy Cannon Joseph Swickard Brinsley Shaw Alan Hale Bridgetta Clark Mabel Van Buren Nigel de Brulier
landowner german frenchman grandson soldier married woman melodramatic rousing striking passionate argentina paris berlin ranch castle battlefield world war i family ties disapproval affair
An extended family split up in France and Germany find themselves on opposing sides of the battlefield during World War I.
Romance
USA
1941
85 Minutes
schoolteacher wife husband presidential candidate student melodramatic heartwarming moving indiana small town school banquet hall washington, d.c. teaching scandal world war i loss politics marriage sacrifice
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.