10 Great World War 1 Movies You've Probably Never Seen
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- First World War has inspired many classic films and a few underrated gems you may have missed.
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The Lost Battalion is another hidden gem. I'm not sure if it was a made-for-tv movie but I have it on dvd and it's a great story.
I believe it was made for TV cause I think that's where I saw it first.
made for TV and aired on A&E but still counts
Fantastic Film.....one of the best of WWI
My favorite WWI movie. I have the movie and 3 books about that group of soldiers. You really understand the grief that Maj. Whittlesey suffered from after the war that sadly lead him to commit suicide 😔
Agree mate…. A lot more accuracy than most especially at the time….. underrated film … I think the headlines of the time and the politics of it meant it wasn’t a bigger draw than it could have been……
Can’t believe Lost Battalion was not on this list. It is definitely at the top of my list.
It's almost criminal that it's not on this list. It's my favorite WWI movie as well. 👍🏻
well if you saw it then it wouldn't be Top 10 WWI movies you probably haven't seen
1 they shall not grow old is unbelievable
Agreed. Anyone with an interest in WWI should see it.
Where to watch??😮
@@michaeleastes1705where to watch?😮
@@future2478 I bought a DVD from Amazon, but it might be on streaming services too.
The Blue Max with George Peppard is also an excellent WW1 flick. And I thought 1917 was rather good.
Yep, Blue Max is my favourite
@@iainduncan3409 I agree but it never seems to make these kind of lists!
Yes!
I haven’t seen “The Blue Max”, but I have seen “1917”…great movie!
i saw 1917 in theators and my mind was blown! the camera work, wow! even seeing the making of was impressive in how they made it work.
Paths of Glory, a Kubrick special
that's a more famous movie
How many WWI movies are/were famous, except maybe in their day. Kubric's is a classic, but how many people other than cineasts like us watch those old movies? Most in my Gen-X cohort have never seen it. I had my son watch it when he was ten. He loved it.
@@RoninDaveI bet most haven't seen it though.
Kirk Douglas's performance!!
It still brings me to tears every time I watch Gallipoli such as knee impacted the end. As I went to Gallipoli in 1987, and visited the Nek… and Lone Pine… and without looking for it, saw real human bones In the remains of the trenches at that time.
Winston's most pethedick endeavor! 😢 Horrible, tragic and greatest Pommy incompetence example?
My vote for the best movie is "Paths of Glory" with Kirk Douglas.
but that's not the point of this video. Paths of Glory is a more famous film like All Quiet on the Western Front
Forty Thousand Horsemen
The Lighthorseman
Both a couple of Aussie classics.
Thanks for including Gallipoli and Beneath Hill 60.
If you were talking about TV, then you could include ANZACS The War Down Under. It was a 5 part series.
Ah yes, 'The Lighthorsemen' - very good, and also a different angle on the conflict.
"They're under the guns".
The “ANZACS” mini series was excellent! The wise cracking Paul Hogan broke the tension, without being too comical or seeming disrespectful. I hadn’t seen “The Lighthorsemen” or “40,000 Horsemen”, but they’re on my watch list. IMHO, the ANZAC’s have not received enough much -deserved , world-wide credit nor recognition. Heroes, all! ❤
No logro encontrar 40 000 horsemens en castellano Vose,una lastima...
El otro día vi "Chanuck Bair" en VOSE
Beneath Hill 60 is a fantastic film.
Except when Brendan Cowell says, "I'm 27 and you're 17 we have a 10 year age difference." -- I;m like, dude you're in your 30s and you look older... I did like the film.
@@jannarkiewicz633 Not sure that’s the actors fault. You do know the rarely play someone their age. That’s how acting works.
@@andrewleah1983 I get it was the writers and they wanted to keep the ages correctd (acutually they were 16 and 26 in real life but 16 might have been too young). Changing the line to 17 and 33 -- would have fixed that ackward moment. But it was a good film.
I really enjoyed that film.
@@jannarkiewicz633 16 is the age of consent in Australia and this was 100 years ago so that’s your puritanical thinking that. Even today girls can legally marry at 12 if their parent gives consent.
I’ve been collecting ww1 DVD
movies/series for a couple of years , and these are the ones I’ve got so far :
The lost batallion
1917
Our world war
A very long engagement
Joyeux nôel
War horse
Passendale
The great war
Flyboys
Red baron
Beneath hill 60
The war below
Private Peaceful
No mans land
All quiet on the western front 1930
All quiet on the western front 1979
All quiet on the western front 2022
The trench
The fear
Forbidden ground
Silent mountain
1914 All out
21 brothers
Gallipoli
Paths of glory
Blue Max
Aces high
Hells angels
Passing bells
All the kings men
Company K
My boy Jack
Water diviner
Testament of youth
Journeys end
Crimson field
Anzacs
Regeneration
Trenches of hell
Omjee group
A war within
The last front
Wings
Capitaine Conan
Johnny got his gun
See if you can find Chunuk Bair (1992). Not the best movie, but is about the Kiwis at Gallipoli
@@JohnSmith-es9qx : I’ll will do my best. Thank you for the tip!
@@JohnSmith-es9qx : Hey , it’s posted here on youtube. I’ll watch it tonight and leave you a follow up comment here.
@@JohnSmith-es9qx : Hello again ! Now I’ve watched the movie. I thought it was great. Very tough conditions for the soldiers indeed. And those cartoonish operett-officers with their heads in the clouds. Today they would’ve been the first to die if they ordered attacks like that. Thx 4 tip. /R
Another suggestion that might be difficult to find: 'Uomini contro' of Francesco Rosi ('70s)
Based on the autobiography of Emilio Lussu 'Un anno sull'altopiano' (one year oh the mountain) follows the life of an italian officer in the Italian front .
It's not exeptional and struggles to follow the story which is based on but the engagements and the characters are really well portrayed
Being an italian movie might be difficult to find and even more dubbed but It's still a good one to look for (you can find it full on youtube not sure if with sub eng)
Johnny Got His Gun is an adaptation of a novel (also written by Dalton Trumbo). It's one of the most powerful books I've ever read. I still think about it 25 years after I first read it. The story is exactly the same as the movie, but I think it works even better in book form because you get to really be inside the character's head and experience the horror of his isolation and claustrophobia.
Capitaine Conan (Tavernier, F, 1996) - set in the period immediately after 1918 when Allied troops who had been involved on the Salonica front are involved in keeping the Soviets out of Bessarabia.
One of the most interesting analyses of heroism ever.
My favorit !
Gallipoli and Beneath Hill 60 are both great WW1 films. Another to add to this list is the Water Diviner starring Russell Crowe.
There is one from Serbia and it's fantastic. It's called "Marš na Drinu" and it's about the first Austro Hungarian offensive on Serbia in 1914. Highly recommend
Several on here I'd never heard of - thanks!
I saw 'Gallipoli' when it came out and cried during the end credits. Then as I was leaving the cinema, I looked at the poster and realized what it was - and then I cried again.
I too saw "Gallipoli" in a theater when it first played in the US. I left the theater in disbelief that the British defense ministry did those ANZAC soldiers so wrong. But I have Canadian relatives, so I shouldn't have been so shocked.
@@user-li6es1so1k You do realise British & Commonwealth (excluding ANZAC) Casualty was much higher than that of the ANZAC's during the Gallipoli Campaign
@@kylestrainspotting1997 Actually, French losses at that campaign were higher than ANZAC's. Of course, for France that campaign lacked the foundational sense it has for NZ and Australia.
Yeah , I probably developed some form of PTSD after seeing Gallipoli as a teenager.
WW1 movies still easily choke me up, while most WW2 do not.
Something about the astonishing pathos and pointlessness of the mutual slaughter on both sides.
@@user-li6es1so1k Huh? You think the British "Defense Ministry " (which didn't exist in WWI ) did them wrong?! Your beef is with General Sir Ian Hamilton (incompetent). Btw it wasn't an ANZAC issue. Go look at British casualties at Helles Point. My grandfather was a Canadian soldier at Vimy Ridge and other WWI battles. Maybe do a little research?!
Lawrence of Arabia, which doesn't take place in Europe but still speaks about british efforts to open a new front against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East. Arab tribes were fooled at that time, and the whole world still keeps paying the price today.
Arabs, "our tribe does not carry water"
The Lost Battalion is one that needs to be in this list and All quiet on the Western Front with Ernest Borgnine.
That isn't the famous version of AQOWT. The 1930 version with Louis Wolheim as Kat is the great version.
“14 Diaries of the Great War”. Incredible
thank you ! Australian movies finally get some love
One great World War 1 movie that everyone SHOULD see is Passchendaele (2008).
Yes, very good dentures in that show.
utter garbage - "fire in the hole " = i think not ; and the cheesy pseudo nailed to the cross ending - barbed wired to the boards ; did i mention the unlikely love story
@@IndieVolken don't forget that everyone magically stops firing during the cross scene like they've never seen suffering like that before- even the artillery crews back over the horizon!
Thats probably the worst movie I have ever seen
Melodramatic baloney with poor relationship to the actual battle.
"The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." - Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
British Foreign Secretary. NICE historical allusion.
I actually really like Warhorse.....The Lost Battalion is essential. The Australian TV show Gallipoli is also really essential as well. The Blue Max, My Boy Jack, 70's All Quiet is also really good. The British TV series Our World War (especially the first episode) is also essential viewing.
You mean The Great War? Also, Warhorse is junk.
Others have mentioned Wings, the 1930 (and 1979) All Quiet On The Western Front, The Lost Battalion, Sgt. York, The Lighthorsemen, ANZACS and Passchendaele - all very good.
I would add two others not on your list or mentioned yet in the comments: The Big Parade and Dawn Patrol. Probably not listed because both were made between the Wars.
The Big Parade was the first great WW1 film, predating both Wings (1927) and All Quiet On The Western Front (1930). A silent movie made in 1925 starring John Gilbert as an American Doughboy, it ran 2 1/2 hours. The scene of troops advancing through a forest (probably the battle of Meuse-Argonne) is absolutely chilling.
Dawn Patrol was clearly the inspiration for Aces High. Made in 1938, it starred Basil Rathbone, Errol Flynn and David Niven as seasoned British aces all nearing the end of their rope as their new pilots drop like flies around them. It's a great WW1 flying movie.
William Kelly's War is also pretty good
The Wipers Times is excellent
Thank you for this list. I’ve been listening to tons of WW1 audiobooks (non-fiction) and this is a great way to put some perspective into what I’ve been listening to.
Johnny Got His Gun was a truly great film - but not for the faint-hearted. It is horrifying and shattering.
My Boy Jack, was a good BBC movie, staring Daniel Radcliffe.
The Lost Battalion: a made-for-TV movie by the History channel, is one of the best ANY war movies I’ve ever seen. Rick Schroeder plays Charles Wittelsy.
"The Wipers Times" is STUNNINGLY good and a MUST-WATCH.
Yeah a quality little film.
And very original.
You left out paths of glory, by Stanley, Kubrick!! I World War I movie set in the French trenches, starring Kirk Douglas. it had such an impact that it was banned in France for many years.
Most people have seen it. These are supposed to be ones we’ve not seen.
@@andrewleah1983 sure.. Although"Gallipoli" is extremely well-known but typically in Australia...
@@hypercomms2001 It’s well known in England.
@@hypercomms2001it’s well known to anyone older than 50, it’s not exactly an obscure movie but compared with several other movies set in the war it’s forgotten
it’s not forgotten, it’s actually highly respected for its direction, acting, and subject matter…it’s second or third behind Lawrence of Arabia and possibly All Quiet On the Western Front
Nice one having Regeneration on here cos it's a brilliant film. The music is outstanding.
Gallipoli.. The mini series was AMAZING
2015 tv series, Gallipoli, is one of the best. It wad written to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the landings so it is historically accurate to a tee, not to mention superbly written.
1999 All the King's Men
Wooden Crosses, Westfront 1918, Stosstrupp 1917, Verdun: Visions of history are all amazing films
"What are your legs? Steel springs. What are they going to do? Hurl me down the track. How fast can you run? As fast as a leopard. How fast can you run? As fast as a leopard. " From Gallipoli.
"I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting (WWI) to those who want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth and may it burn their lousy souls." - Paul Nash
You can actually see the real breaker switch used to detonate the Hill 60 bumb in the Canberra war museum
Aces High is one of my favourite war films. I’ve seen the stage play of Journey’s End* at least a dozen times, but Aces High is better than the recent film version by quite a distance.
*RC Sherriff also wrote the screen play for The Dambusters.
Sherriff was a great play and screen writer responsible for many wonderful scripts and the best part is that Journey's End was written from personal experience.
Wow! Thank you! 10 movies to find and watch. C
Oh, What a Lovely War from Richard Attenborough.
Heart-wrenching!
Joan Crawford’s classic is far too well known both as a play and a film.
Regeneration is one of my top war films of all time. Can't believe its in this category...
March on the Drina.
Great movie.
The Monocled Mutineer, although not a film, a four part series, is well worth a watch, and the story behind it is even more interesting...
The Blue Max!
Sgt. York, 1917, lost battalion, Gallipali, All Quiet on western front, all 3 versions are great!
Okay, it's not a ww1 film (I think?) *BUT*
..."The water diviner" is amazing and so heartbreaking!
Basic intro: An Australian man has two sons who ran off to fight in some war in India, he knows they're dead but all he wants is their bodies back.
It is a (post) WW1 film. Crowe’s character’s sons died at Gallipoli.
@@arkdeniz It's both because a signiificant part of it is his sons experiemces in the war
What Price Glory, with James (Jimmy) Cagney
Beneath Hill 60 is number one in this list mate, by a country mile, closely followed by Joyeaux Noelle and then Gallipoli.
The Blue Max was an incredible WWI film
Watching Gallipoli / listening to And the band played Waltzing Mathilda... chills! 😞
This is a really good pick, Beneath Hill 60 is a particularly good film and I absoluetely love A Very Long Engagement and See You Up There, The Lost Patrol completely passed me by and must catch up.
Seen them all!
Two really good films that are not mentioned are The Lost Battalion, about an American unit surrounded during the Meuse-Argonne offensive, (which was basically the death blow to the German army) and which won its leader the Medal of Honor, with plenty of other decorations handed out in a last stand reminiscent of Zulu, and Flyboys, about the Lafayette Escadrille and while the characters are factionalized they are based on real pilots who fought and died in the skies above the western front
I own Gallipoli on DVD and have watched it several times. Of the ten films on the list, it is the only one I know, let alone have seen. Thanks for the homework!
BBC 2 parter 'Birdsong ' is up there with Beneath Hill 60 as best
Paths of Glory spectacular...Where Eagles Dare my favorite kid years theater movie...1917..awesome
A Very Long Engagement also features the American Jodie Foster in a French-speaking role.
"... the futility of conflict." A popular shibboleth among people who haven't given much thought to the history. It what people who could give a tinker's dam about the Poles, the Czechs, the Slovenians, the Finns, and about a dozen other ethnicities whose modern history begins with the defeat of the Central Powers by the Entente. And where would Europe be if no resistance had been offered by the British and Americans to Hitler and Hirohito. Answer that question honestly before prattling about the "futility of conflict".
I mean its about WW1, where the 'futility of conflict' rings truest. The whole reason the war happened, who fought, why they fought it and how they ended up just exemplifies this. You mention 'Poles, the Czechs, the Slovenians, the Finns and about a dozen other ethnicities' and say calling the war futility is an assumption without merit since their modern history dates back to 1918 and this being the result of a futile struggle is not the right way to think about it. But thats the point, the world changed for practically nothing. Millions upon millions died for basically nothing. The outcome was just the outcome. Then to say that one couldn't call the great war a needless and wasteful event because later on more wars were fought is stupid. WW1 was a political and geographical war, WW2 was about stopping the bad guys (dumb way to chalk up WW2 but you named dropped so thats whats happening here). The fight of 1939-1945 is nowhere near the same as what happened 1914-1918.
"When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice so that the whole affair would not be seen for what it was: a meaningless waste of millions of lives. Logically, if the flower of youth had been cut down in Flanders, the survivors were not the flower: the dead were superior to the traumatized living. In this way, the virtual destruction of a generation further increased the distance between the old and the young, between the official and the unofficial." - Robert Hughes
The Odd Angry Shot and Breaker Morant. Way back when HBO actually showed good movies.
Breaker Morant is actually a Boer War movie, iirc, and the same storyline as Paths of Glory. It is a great story, though, and both are very well done. Have not heard of the Old Angry Shot, but will look for it.
@@habrok42 The Odd Angry Shot is a Vietnam War movie
Seen 8, 7, 5, 3, 2 and 1. Must check out the rest.
two that you probably ignored because they’re not British are The Lost Battalion and Sergeant York
Lost Battalion tells about a battalion of American soldiers cutoff from the allies during a surprise attack but causes a stall in the German attack that ends up causing it to collapse saving the allies from retreating
Sergeant York is a biography of the most decorated American in WWI but is a rare account of a soldier from pre-war to post-war life including his reluctance to fight in the first place
And I read both stories in a book called The Great War, Stories from World War One when I was a kid. Along with Count Felix von Luckner and the Seeadler, Major Reynal at Fort Vaux, Billy Barker and his final dogfight, Matej Kocak, Douglas Macarthur and one Thomas Edward Lawrence (latterly of Arabia).
Sergeant York 🤣 old and unrealistic. Of its time though.
@@teesman61 old, yes…unrealistic? actually read up on him before spouting ignorant garbage, kid
The Yanks were only there for the last 5 minutes, not worth mentioning. They turned up late for the next one as well.
@@SuperEdge67 not worth mentioning yet your country won’t STFU about murdering millions of people in Africa and India
I've seen six of them but I can see that most people wouldn't have.
Beneath Hill 60 is probably my favourite of the bunch.
Not watched Gallipoli since Gibson went weird, wouldn't give him house-room but the recent remake was very good.
The incredible thing about Beneath Hill 60 is it is the true story about the biggest explosion the world had ever seen until the nuclear bomb was invented
Man I was obsessed with Galipoli because of Mel Gibson and the SMLE MK3. Too bad the picture quality degraded so much.
The Red Baron, another one of my favourites as it is from the German view, I encourage you to view it.
One I'd add is Roger Corman's 'The Red Baron' aka 'Von Richthofen and Brown' (1971), starring John Phillip Law as Manfred von Richthofen and Don Stroud as Roy Brown, the Canadian credited with shooting him down.
Brown made the claim, but the credit has been proved too often as Australian ground fire.
@@seanlander9321 Yes, he was buried by the Australians with full military honours. One of his flying boots is in the Australian War Memorial museum in Canberra!
"Les fusillés" is a pearl french movie about the full groups of soldiers "shot for the example"
"Black and White in Color" is a 1977 French movie that won the Academy Award for best foreign movie.
It is a black comedy taking place in French West Africa during WW1.
Well worth being on this list.
"Tolkein", the movie about LOTR author JRR Tolkein's experiences in WW1 is also very informative.
Oh! How can I forget the last episode of Blackadder?
Possibly the best (if tragic) ending to any series.
Why do you think we haven't seen them? I've seen four. And you didn't mention Le Grand Illusion (1938), or the original All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) surely two of the greatest war films.
Many Wars Ago is a truly forgotten but fantastic film.
Actually, most of the films you mentioned were quite well-known, and I had watched all but two or three of them. Few people had the chance to watch "Johnny Got His Gun", but it was a well-known antiwar film in the 1970s. "Gallipoli" marked the rise of Mel Gibson, though he played only a secondary role to Mark Lee's character. Of the more recent films, I recommend the French film "A Very Long Engagement" - much truer to the times than "1917".
I have watched films and documentary on Gallipoli, I haven’t heard any mention of of the Scottish Rifles, my great Uncle Jimmy Rainey fought there, and the Palestines three battles, plus the Somme, he died at the Marne!
You want to see a great war movie? Watch The Beast Of War. It's not WW1 but it is fantastic
AKA The Beast. Agreed. I can understand that it doesn't speak to everyone, but imo it ranks with the best war movies out there.
1925's "The Big Parade"!!!!!! One of the greatest war films ever!
And Number 1!! Tales from the crypt episode called yellow! look it up, so so good
does anybody know what movie he shows at 0:00
Sargeant York
And what about all the incredible WW1 films from the interwar period like Abel Gance's «J'accuse», William Wellmann's «Wings», Howard Hawk's «Dawn Patrol», Lewis Milestone's «All Quiet on The Wastern Front», plus such gems like Kubrick's «Paths of Glory»?
Seen about 75% of these plus several others including some fantastic German and French ones.
Johnny got his Gun ....! Thanks .... A great movie !
I love watching WWI and WWII movies, I actually got to watch the movie Stalingrad (I think the 1993 version because it was said that the 2016 version wasn't as good... of course I had to download it..) but I loved All's Quiet on the Western Front especially the Ernest Borgnine version and the Netflix version was also good. I watched Beneath Hill 60, loved it! I also watched The Somme and Passchendale.. I watched Patton, A Bridge too Far, Bridge at Remagen, The Kings Choice, De Gaulle, I actually enjoyed watching those movies despite them being in Danish and French.. but it was still entertaining.. I also watched some Russian movies.. I think one of them was White Tiger or something similar.. I watched T-34 as well.. I just liked those movies.. I even watched Tobruk (or however it was spelled)
What about Sargent York? And it's a true story. They even took some of the dialog from his diary.
Nice list. Original!
"Paths of Glory." Kubrick. Need I say more?
I use Regeneration in training. Under Hill 60 is renounced for the story does not denigrate the enemy; I add the Admiral about the bizarre politics.
A few I want to check out.
BTW Sahara is a remake of a Soviet movie The Thirteen (1937)
the trench was pretty good, Danel was so great as a the hard but loving sgt
“The Trench” was great at depicting the claustrophobia and the anxiety of the fresh recruits awaiting battle, but….seeing “green grass “ in No Man’s Land was a major historical flaw. The war had been already been raging for two years. The landscape would have been muddy, scarred with shell holes, and littered with the bodies of the dead and the dying. Otherwise, it was a good movie.(And yes, Daniel Craig’s acting is excellent !)
"The Great Swindle" is a fantastic book. I had no idea it had been made into a film. Is the film as good as the book, though?
I would like to recommend a Canadian film from 2008 entitled "Passchendaele" for no other reason than it focuses on the Canadian army. A much neglected contributor to both world wars.
Gallipoli was not a battle. It was a campaign. Many battles over 8 months
you overlooked the 1930s All Quiet on the Western Front or is this just the winners movies?
Missed one, because of course you did.
Passchendaele (2008)
These are supposed to be films we’ve not seen.
@@andrewleah1983trust me except Canadians of english stock. Noone watched this film
@@Hogtownboy1 I’ve watched it countless times. It does star my man Paul Gross so I think that helped.
@@andrewleah1983 so you are not a Canadian of UK stock
@@Hogtownboy1 I’m English of English stock.
how the eff is Passchendaele not on here?
Because the acting is just rubbish, as is the storyline.
I don't get the connection between Gallipoli and Master and Commander. Is the video confusing Mel Gibson with Russel Crowe?
Aces High is basically just, Journey's End, set in the air.
A war fought by 20th century lions, led by 19th century donkeys.
"witch hunts"? lol oh my sweet summer child.
oh wat a lovely war
INDEED
Gallipoli is so tragic!
The whole futile war was tragic. The war to cause all the 20th century horrors to come..