Films about the First World War

Films about the First World War
List of the best films about the First World War, selected by visitors to our site: I Loved a Woman, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, The White Cliffs of Dover, Roaring Rails, The Three Mesquiteers, What Price Glory, Born Reckless, H.M. Pulham, Esq., The Iron Major, Wings.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 6
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

Marjorie Winfield's engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World War I, serves as the backdrop for the trials and tribulations of her family.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genremelodrama, drama, military
CountryUSA
Duration02:06

Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, American Susan never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. Upon the outbreak of World War I, Ashwood is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genreaction, drama
CountryUSA

A railroad engineer adopts a French orphan while he's fighting in the army in World War I, and takes him back to the US when the war ends. Later the boy needs an eye operation that the engineer can't afford, so he takes the rap for a murder he didn't commit in order to get his son the operation.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genreaction, western
CountryUSA

When a group of World War 1 buddies head west to farmstead, they run into trouble.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:51

Two military men, Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt, who are rivals to begin with, grow more at odds with each other when Quirt is made Flagg's top sergeant. And when a local beauty comes between them, their rivalry escalates even further. But when they discover that the woman has marriage in mind, they now compete to try to avoid marching down the aisle - that is, until they are called upon to march into battle.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genredrama, crime, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:22

In order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:00

A man who lived his life as he was was told he should, not as he would have chosen to, is brought out of his shell by a beautiful young woman.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:25

Pat O'Brien in the role of William 'Frank' Cavanaugh, a top football coach who gave up his career to enter WWI where he became a hero. After the war he went back to coaching where he ended up having one of the best winning percentages in football history.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military
CountryUSA
Duration02:24

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them, pines away.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, military
CountryUSA
Duration00:45

An American doughboy, stationed in France during the Great War, goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines and becomes a hero.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:43

During World War I, a home care nurse treats a man who lost one leg on the front lines. A strong bond arises between them and evolves into a passionate love affair.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:38

A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrecomedy, drama, family
CountryRussia
Duration01:46

100 years ago, the Russian Empire ... Christmas Eve. December plugs, holiday celebrations, balls and modest luxury holidays, titled nobles and ordinary peasants, the royal family and the soldiers of the First World War, progressive poets and the first skaters - everything was different, except ... the holiday. People prepared, lived, believed dreaming and waiting for this miracle - Christmas!

Markimdb: 8
Genremelodrama, military, history
CountryItaly, United Kingdom, USA
Duration03:17

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.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, military
CountryUSA
Duration02:07

In this aerial spectacle, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford university, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps when World War I breaks out.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
CountryFrance, Germany
Duration02:05

In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genreadventure, military, history
CountryUSA

August, 1917. Using the name 'Henri Defense', 17 year old Indiana Jones has enlisted in the Belgian army to fight in the Great War. After all his commanding officers have been wiped out during combat in Flanders, Corporal 'Defense' is left in charge of what's left of the 9th Belgian Infantry. They are assigned to the French 14th Company and dispatched into the Battle of the Somme. When Indy is captured by the Germans, he quickly gains a reputation as an escape artist, and is sent to the maximum security prison at Dunsterstadt on the Danube.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA

A dejected Parisian sewer worker feels his prayers have been answered when he falls in love with a street waif.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom, Luxembourg
Duration02:05

The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genredrama, military, history
CountryTurkey

In 1915, two Turks in Australia make a living by selling ice cream. When they hear war has broken out, they decide to go to Çanakkale. Authorities don't let them leave the island, so the two decide to put up a fight in Australia.

Markimdb: 7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:42

A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to war.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:11

Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds, a traumatized but courageous man who will experience, in the years to come, the pain of misfortune but also the happiness of success and hope and love for other human beings.

Markimdb: 8
Genrecomedy, drama, family, history
CountryTurkey
Duration02:06

A feature film that tells the story of the director's grandfather who was forced to leave Crete in the 1920s during the Greek-Turkish population exchange.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:26

In 1915, German Counter-Intelligence Chief Von Sturm learns that someone is providing the British with critical strategic planning for the Turkish theater. He suspects Ali Bey, Turkish commander for the Dardanelles, and dispatches Annemarie to Constantinople to secure the proof. En route she becomes involved with Douglas Beall, a footloose American. Complications ensue, requiring Annemarie to engage in some dangerous improvisations.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genremelodrama, drama, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:09

While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest and dearest friend Digby has also been captured and put into the same camp with him. Fred longs for news of his wife, Monica, but Digby speaks little of her. Digby knows a secret about Monica, a secret he must keep from his friend, and it wears at his conscience so much that he attempts a reckless escape.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
CountryUSA

A Hollywood biographical film about a survivor's experience of the Armenian Genocide. Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian plays herself in the film which is based on her published memoirs. It is thought to be the first film about made about genocide. All known complete copies of the film have been lost. A restored and edited 24-minute segment of the historic motion picture was released in 2009 by the Armenian Genocide Resource Center of Northern California. It is based on a rare surviving reel of film edited in Soviet Armenia.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
CountryUSA
Duration03:15

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed (1887-1920), who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant (1885-1936).

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama, military, history
CountryIndia

The film SAJJAN SINGH RANGROOT is based on true story about the Sikh Regiment, serving in the British Indian Army, during World War I. The movie depicts one such war hero Sajjan Singh, who is an officer in the British Army and served on the western front during the WW1 against Germany.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genremelodrama, drama, western, military
CountryUSA
Duration02:13

An epic tale of three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of 1900s USA and how their lives are affected by nature, history, war, and love.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, drama, military
CountryUSA

The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:25

An adventuresome young man goes off to find himself, and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:26

A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryUSA
Duration02:01

The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, drama, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:10

Oscar Krug is looked upon with suspicion by his neighbors because of his German name. When the US is drawn into the war with Germany, he enlists and travels the seas with his wife, Alice Morse. During a submarine attack Alice is snatched from Krug's side by a German officer. Krug now lives to have his revenge, and when the opportunity presents itself, he will have it.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA

Army training Sgt. Gray makes a bet that he can get himself invited to breakfast with his commanding officer, General Markley. But he gets into an unhappy tangle with a couple of enemy spies (and a happy tangle with the general's daughter) before the bet is finally decided.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:02

During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. After a scheme to adopt him ends up giving him to another family, she devotes her life to loving him from afar.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genreadventure, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

November, 1916. Indiana Jones and Remy Baudouin have managed to get a transfer from the European trenches to the plains of Africa. On arrival they both receive a promotion to the rank of lieutenant in the Belgian Army. When they take the wrong train they end up in Moshi. Desprerate to join their unit in Lake Victoria, the two men bump into the 25th Royal Fusiliers, a unit of cranky old men led by Indy's old acquaintance Frederick Selous. Indy's passing knowledge of trains and fluent German comes in handy for the Fusiliers, who are about to go on a mission to find and destroy a Phantom Train that carries an enormous German artillery gun. After accomplishing their goal, Selous tricks Indy and Remy into joining his unit for another caper involving the capture of the German military strategist Colonel Von Lettow-Vorbeck.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genremelodrama, drama, history
CountryUSA
Duration01:58

The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA

John has lead a solitary life for thirty years since the death of Moonyeen Clare. But now Owens, a close friend, insists that he care for his niece, Kathleen, orphaned when her parents were lost at sea. Kathleen is five, but the years pass and now she is a young woman who is the image of Moonyeen. Willy wants Kathleen for his wife, but Sparks fly when she meets Kenneth Wayne one dark and stormy night. John is horrified for it was Wayne's father who shot Moonyeen dead on her wedding day and John has never found him or forgiven the family. When Ken goes off to war, John forbids any marriage and Ken agrees, while Kathleen does not. When Ken returns four years later when the war is over, he is crippled. He conceals his condition and makes plans to leave for America.

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