besides all quiet on the western frount
2007-02-26 12:22:34 · 15 answers · asked by historygrl93 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
i found this list of WWI movies on amazon.com. the majority are all old movies (1940s-1950s).
2007-02-26 12:26:28 · answer #1 · answered by stitchfan85 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Surprisingly few, considering the impact the Great War had on the world. To me the first couple of films were the best, as there were still enough people around to understand what that war did to the world.
First, try King Vidor's The Big Parade (1925). There is a lot of early on canoodling with Renee Adoree, but once it gets going it is one of the most realistic pictures of war ever done.
Second, Lewis Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front, which actually won Best Picture in 1929/30 (they did the years of eligibility differently then) holds up surprisingly well.
2007-02-26 20:46:29 · answer #2 · answered by obelix 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Flyboys - 2006. An excellent movie about Americans that joined up with the french escadrilles (air combat) before the US entered the war.
2007-02-26 20:29:21 · answer #3 · answered by steddy voter 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure if it has to be a movie, but I have been watching the History Channel, and the Military Channel, and they regularly do specials on different aspects of the first world war.
Airplanes, trench warfare, various campaigns. Check it out. VERY interesting.
2007-02-26 20:26:53 · answer #4 · answered by tallcowboy0614 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Summer of Sarajevo"
Presents the origin of WWI when Serbian Bosnian Gavrilo Princip asassinated the ArchDuke Ferdinand of Austro-Hungaria and the resulting tensions which boiled over into the Axis Powers.
2007-02-26 21:26:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Eagle and the Hawk - Cary Grant & Frederick March. The film is about WWI aviators.
2007-02-26 21:02:33 · answer #6 · answered by jhartmann21 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Separate Peace.
2007-02-26 20:36:36 · answer #7 · answered by Monc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The BEST WWI Movie is"Lost Battalion". Nothing else even comes close.
2007-02-26 20:27:03 · answer #8 · answered by wagendawg 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paths of Glory with Kirk Doulas. It's one of the better war movies ever made.
2007-02-26 20:26:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is an awesome one with Rick Schroder that the History Channel did, but I can't think of the name of it or the battle that it is depicting.
2007-02-27 02:57:27 · answer #10 · answered by Alicia E 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋