Great World War One movies?

Except for:

My Boy Jack
The Lost Battalion
An Unusual Engagement
Jouyeux Noel
All Quiet on the Western Front (both of them)
Westfront ( the German one)
The Red Baron
The Blue Max
Legends of the Fall

Can you recommend some , please?

Passchendaele

I can give you an oldie - Paths of Glory.



Oh and Gallipoli...

african queen
the dictator
Johny got his gun
black and white in color

Can't really leave out Lawrence of Arabia either...

Gallipoli is my favorite, most other movies from the period don't really interest me as I find the conflict somewhat boring.

Passchendaele is a good movie, but be warned that most of it takes place on the home front, and the romance plot is central.

Gallipoli, Joyeux Noël, Passchendaele, All the King's Men, Lawrence of Arabia.

Gallipoli had a strange soundtrack.

It was weird in the 80s when period films had electronic soundtracks.

Originally Posted by Kanaric

Gallipoli had a strange soundtrack.

It was weird in the 80s when period films had electronic soundtracks.

I'm sure they could make a movie about Beethoven and still include an electronic soundtrack somewhere in there. What a terrible decade...

War Horse looks like it is going to be epic. Not sure if it's a "WAR" war movie though.

Aces High
Dawn Patrol

They both focus on the air war. Dawn Patrol also has Errol Flynn.

Johny got his gun is really depressing. Metallica did a video on this one, didn't they?

70 years old movie: Sergeant York

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034167/


German TV-Film about the chaotic time at the end of the war: Gewaltfrieden

Uomini contro.





Check the cavalry charge @ around 13'30.

Capitaine Conan.



About the balkan front and french trench "cleaners" is rather good too.

There is also "Grand illusion" although it's not really a war movie as a movie set during the war. It's set in a prisonners camp in germany and deals with patriotism and differences between social class. A true classic.

Life and nothing else

http://www.imdb.fr/title/tt0098596/combined

It is also not really a war movie, it is set in 1920, the protagonist is in charge to try to find the remains of missing soldiers and also is in charge of finding a suitable candidate for the unknown soldier.

There is also "Wooden Cross", i really liked the book, there is an old movie adaptation but i don't know if it's good or not.

Triunghiul Mortii ( Death's Triangle ) Romania 1999

Last Nicolaescu attempt of epic historical movies

Beneath hill 60 is a good one.

As was said, The Dawn Patrol is a friggin classic. THe transforming planes can be a little weird for modern eyes, but all of the flying is genuine, and the flying sequences are amazing. Not to mention the story, which is timeless.

Hells Angles is also neat, but only from an action standpoint. The story is awful. Fast forward to the flying bits for the good part.

The Dawn Patrol is really good.

The Trench (1999) is like it's title says, about a trench occupied by the British. I thought it would be hardcore action, with the Brits losing the trench to the enemy, then fighting to re-capture her from the Germans and so on.
I was wrong. Only important action is at the end of the movie.

A Farewell to Arms. There are two versions:

1932 with Gary Cooper


and 1957 with Rock Hudson


Zeppelin (1971)


Dr. Zhivago (1965)


For King and Country (1964)

Oh I forgot about Zeppelin...I liked that.

And Dr. Zhivago - can't beat the scene when the deserters march past the new recruits going to the front. I liked the TV drama they did in the UK a few years back. That was pretty good too.