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World War I Feature Films

by pr1mal_1 • Created 12 years ago • Modified 5 years ago
A comprehensive list of World War One (WWI) movies, TV movies, and TV mini-series in chronological order.

Known as 'The Great War' and the 'War To End All Wars', the First World War (WW1) was until then the most brutal war ever waged by man.

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  • Mary Pickford in The Little American (1917)

    1. The Little American

    19171h 20mNot Rated
    6.2 (768)
    A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.
    DirectorsCecil B. DeMilleJoseph LeveringStarsMary PickfordJack HoltRaymond Hatton
  • Shoulder Arms (1918)

    2. Shoulder Arms

    191836mPassedShort
    7.3 (7.8K)
    Charlie is a boot camp private who has a dream of being a hero who goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines.
    DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinEdna PurvianceSyd Chaplin
  • Lillian Gish and George Siegmann in Hearts of the World (1918)

    3. Hearts of the World

    19181h 57mTV-PG
    6.5 (1.2K)
    Young lovers in a French village are torn apart with the coming of the Great War.
    DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsLillian GishDorothy GishRobert Harron
  • The Unbeliever (1918)

    4. The Unbeliever

    19181h 20mNot Rated
    6.0 (153)
    A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters First World War. In the course of his experiences in the trenches and being wounded, he comes to a recognition of the equality and brotherhood of men.
    DirectorAlan CroslandStarsMarguerite CourtotRaymond McKeeErich von Stroheim
  • J'accuse! (1919)

    5. J'accuse!

    19192h 46mNot Rated
    7.7 (2.3K)
    The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war.
    DirectorAbel GanceStarsRomuald JoubéMaxime DesjardinsSéverin-Mars
  • Richard Barthelmess and Carol Dempster in The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919)

    6. The Girl Who Stayed at Home

    19191hPassed
    6.3 (157)
    Story of two brothers who go off to France to fight in World War I, the women who love them and an American expatriate living in France who rallies behind his former country.
    DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsAdolph LestinaCarol DempsterFrances Parks
  • The Lost Battalion (1919)

    7. The Lost Battalion

    19191h 10m
    6.2 (157)
    A battalion of the U. S. Army's 77th Division penetrates deep into the Argonne Forest of France during the First World War. The battalion becomes surrounded and holds out for six long days, awaiting reinforcement and rescue.
    DirectorBurton L. KingStarsRobert AlexanderGeorge G. McMurtryCharles W. Whittlesey
  • The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)

    8. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

    19212h 30mPassed
    7.1 (3.7K)
    An extended family split up in France and Germany find themselves on opposing sides of the battlefield during World War I.
    DirectorRex IngramStarsRudolph ValentinoAlice TerryPomeroy Cannon
  • The Big Parade (1925)

    9. The Big Parade

    19252h 31mNot Rated
    7.9 (7.6K)
    A young American soldier witnesses the horrors of the Great War.
    DirectorsKing VidorGeorge W. HillStarsJohn GilbertRenée AdoréeHobart Bosworth
  • Dolores Del Río, Edmund Lowe, and Victor McLaglen in What Price Glory (1926)

    10. What Price Glory

    19261h 56mApproved
    6.8 (509)
    U.S. Marine sergeants Quirt and Flagg are inveterate romantic rivals on peacetime assignments in China and the Philippines. In 1917, W.W. I brings them to France, where Flagg, now a captain, takes up with flirtatious Charmaine, inn-keeper's daughter. Of course, Quirt has to arrive and spoil his fun. But the harsh realities of war and the threat of a shotgun marriage give the two men a common cause...
    DirectorRaoul WalshStarsVictor McLaglenEdmund LoweDolores Del Río
  • Mare Nostrum (1926)

    11. Mare Nostrum

    19261h 42mPassed
    6.8 (430)
    The story of a female German spy who willingly sacrifices her life for her country.
    DirectorRex IngramStarsApollon UniÁlex NovaKada-Abd-el-Kader
  • Kathryn Boyd, Laurence Criner, and Harold Platts in The Flying Ace (1926)

    12. The Flying Ace

    19261h 5m
    6.2 (334)
    A WWI fighter pilot returns to his former job as a railroad detective, and must recover a satchel filled with $25,000 of stolen payroll, locate a missing employee, and capture the gang of thieves responsible.
    DirectorRichard E. NormanStarsLaurence CrinerKathryn BoydBoise De Legge
  • Syd Chaplin in The Better 'Ole (1926)

    13. The Better 'Ole

    19261h 35mPassed
    6.2 (314)
    The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.
    DirectorCharles ReisnerStarsSyd ChaplinHarold GoodwinJack Ackroyd
  • Clara Bow and Charles 'Buddy' Rogers in Wings (1927)

    14. Wings

    19272h 24mPG-1378Metascore
    7.5 (16K)
    Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.
    DirectorsWilliam A. WellmanHarry d'Abbadie d'ArrastStarsClara BowCharles 'Buddy' RogersRichard Arlen
  • Barbed Wire (1927)

    15. Barbed Wire

    19271h 19mPassed
    7.0 (268)
    During WWI, a French farm girl and a German P.O.W. fall in love.
    DirectorsRowland V. LeeMauritz StillerStarsPola NegriClive BrookClaude Gillingwater
  • Lillian Gish and Ralph Forbes in The Enemy (1927)

    16. The Enemy

    19271h 30mPassed
    7.6 (144)
    Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted. Pauli and her family and friends are left behind to experience the suffering which befell civilians during the war. Her luck worsens when her father is dismissed from his professorship for teaching that war is evil. Her father argues violently with Carl's father, and degradation and despair descend on Pauli and her family as they await Carl's return from the front.
    DirectorFred NibloStarsLillian GishRalph ForbesRalph Emerson
  • James Hall, Pola Negri, George Siegmann, Mauritz Stiller, and Eric Rohman in Hotel Imperial (1927)

    17. Hotel Imperial

    19271h 25m
    6.8 (294)
    During World War I, a hotel maid and Austrian officer in hiding attempt to survive in a Russian-occupied town.
    DirectorMauritz StillerStarsPola NegriJames HallGeorge Siegmann
  • 7th Heaven (1927)

    18. 7th Heaven

    19271h 50m
    7.5 (4.5K)
    A street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.
    DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellBen Bard
  • Gary Cooper and Colleen Moore in Lilac Time (1928)

    19. Lilac Time

    19281h 20m
    6.5 (759)
    All of those handsome young men in their flying machines are billeted in a field next to the Widow Berthelot's farmhouse in France. Her daughter Jeannine is curious about the young men fighting for England in World War I and their airplanes. Then one of the aviators is killed. His replacement is Captain Philip Blythe, who can't help but notice Jeannine: when he lands the first time, she is standing in the middle of his "runway." She makes a more favorable impression when he sees her later by the lilacs. When all of the young men depart on a mission, Blythe promises to return.
    DirectorsGeorge FitzmauriceFrank LloydStarsColleen MooreGary CooperEugenie Besserer
  • Gary Cooper and Nancy Carroll in The Shopworn Angel (1928)

    20. The Shopworn Angel

    19281h 22m
    6.8 (70)
    Shortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends, but a real romance soon begins.
    DirectorRichard WallaceStarsNancy CarrollGary CooperPaul Lukas
  • Dolores Costello and George O'Brien in Noah's Ark (1928)

    21. Noah's Ark

    19282h 15mPassed
    6.6 (1K)
    The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.
    DirectorsMichael CurtizDarryl F. ZanuckStarsDolores CostelloGeorge O'BrienNoah Beery
  • Verdun: Looking at History (1928)

    22. Verdun: Looking at History

    19282h 31mNot Rated
    7.3 (172)
    Dramatic re-enactment of the battle of Verdun during World War I, as seen by both French and German sides.
    DirectorLéon PoirierStarsAlbert PréjeanJeanne Marie-LaurentSuzanne Bianchetti
  • Carry on, Sergeant! (1928)

    23. Carry on, Sergeant!

    19281h 57m
    5.9 (53)
    A group of workers decide to join the army in the Great War. The indulge themselves in the side benefits to being soldiers, and one of them marries a French waitress.
    DirectorBruce BairnsfatherStarsJimmy SavoHugh BucklerNancy Ann Hargreaves
  • Francis X. Bushman Jr., James Hall, Margaret Mann, George Meeker, and Charles Morton in Four Sons (1928)

    24. Four Sons

    19281h 40mPassed
    7.2 (989)
    A family saga in which three sons of a Bavarian widow go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent.
    DirectorJohn FordStarsJames HallMargaret MannCharles Morton
  • Gustav Fröhlich, Lars Hanson, and Dita Parlo in Homecoming (1928)

    25. Homecoming

    19281h 18mPassed
    6.9 (228)
    During World War 1 two German prisoners-of-war escape from a Siberian lead-mine. Karl reaches their home town Hamburg before Richard and stays with Anna, Richard's wife. Karl and Anna fall in love. And then Richard comes home.
    DirectorJoe MayStarsLars HansonDita ParloGustav Fröhlich

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