Best World War I movies

Actors : Lesya Andreeva, Mariya Aronova, Nikolay Auzin, Mariya Antonova,
Directors : Dmitriy Meskhiev,

Russia, 1917, WWI. This is the story of the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death, formed as part of an ill-conceived propaganda ploy by the Russian Provisional Government in late May of 1917.

Actors : David Bowie, Kim Novak, David Hemmings, Sydne Rome,
Directors : David Hemmings,

After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and can only find menial, low-paying jobs. He decides to become a gigolo to lonely rich women.

Actors : Gregg Henry, Laura Wiggins, Marshall Williams, Hayley Sales,
Directors : Robert Adetuyi,

In post-World War I Winnipeg, a Ukrainian immigrant and a Jewish woman get caught up in a labour strike.

Actors : Nicola Stapleton, Juliette Caton, Charlie Sheen, Joanna Clarke,
Directors : Christopher Leitch,

In this version of "Heidi," a young Swiss girl is sent off to boarding school at the beginning of World War I.

Actors : Mikhail Mikhajlov, Vasil Vachev, Rade Markovic, Nevena Kokanova,
Directors : Vulo Radev,

A wife of a Bulgarian Army officer falls in love with a Serbian prisoner at the end of World war I.

Actors : Mylène Farmer, Jeff Dahlgren, Joss Ackland, Louise Fletcher,
Directors : Laurent Boutonnat,

October 1918: After returning to the civil life, the young Doctor Giorgio Volli searches for a group of children, which he had been the care-taker of before the first world war began. ...

Actors : Eli Wallach, Red Buttons, Trish Van Devere, George C. Scott,
Directors : Stanley Donen,

Three movie genres of the 1930s, boxing films, WWI aviation dramas, and backstage Broadway musicals, are satirized using the same cast.

Actors : Alessandro Borghi, Gabriel Montesi, Federica Rosellini,
Directors : Gianni Amelio,

In WWI, Dr. Stefano Zorzi works at a clinic, treating soldiers' wounds and cases of self-injury to avoid combat.Dr. Giulio, who helps soldiers, becomes a silent competition that also involves nurse Anna. The Spanish flu strikes the city.

Actors : Alan Bates, Julie Christie, Glenda Jackson, Ann-Margret,
Directors : Alan Bridges,

Kitty Baldry (Julie Chirstie) is a haughty society queen with a tunneled view of life. Kitty's complacency is rocked when her husband, Captain Chris Baldry (Alan Bates), returns from the ...

Actors : Corinne Calvet, Richard Beymer, Fred Clark, Diane Baker,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

An immature young man from Middle America grows to manhood after a cross-country journey and his military service in World War I.

Actors : Ewa Domanska, Wojciech Pszoniak, Jan Szurmiej, Franciszek Pieczka,
Directors : Jerzy Kawalerowicz,

During a pogrom in Poland on the eve of World War I, a group of Jews seek refuge from the Cossacks. The fugitives hide out in a rural inn, terrified that they may be given away at any moment.

Actors : Nathaniel Parker, Tilda Swinton, Laurence Olivier, Patricia Hayes,
Directors : Derek Jarman,

A film with no spoken dialogue, just follows the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem, which include WWI soldier poet Wilfred Owen's poems reflecting the war's horrors. It ...

Actors : Patrick Bruel, Anne Brochet, Agnès Blanchot, Ingrid Held,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

After World War I, a young ex-soldier, Sébastien Monge, returns to his home village. Ignorant of his past, he learns that, 24 years before, his entire family was slain in their home one ...

Actors : Jun Kunimura, Ken Matsudaira, Hiroshi Abe, Bruno Ganz,
Directors : Masanobu Deme,

German soldiers are transported to a prisoner-of-war camp in Japan after the First World War.

Actors : Zoltán Latinovits, József Madaras, Mari Töröcsik, Andrea Drahota,
Directors : Miklós Jancsó,

Miklós Jancsó's Silence and Cry is set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just a ...

Actors : Laetitia Casta, Stefano Accorsi, Miglen Mirtchev, Jean-Paul Rouve,
Directors : Gilles Legrand,

At the end of World War I, 20 year-old Angèle is determined to become the first woman veterinarian. Her life is an adventurous one and she becomes the object of ruthless rivalry between the...

Actors : Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Iva Krajnc, Nebojsa Dugalic, Radivoje Bukvic,
Directors : Srdjan Karanovic,

At the very beginning of the World War I, Filip, a Serb and the principal of a gymnasium in a small Serbian town, is summoned urgently to Belgrade to serve in the war effort. He has no one ...

Actors : Fausto Russo Alesi, Fanni Wrochna, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi,
Directors : Pietro Marcello,

After retiring from her legendary stage career, actress Eleonora Duse feels an irresistible call to return to the theater during Italy's turbulent period between WWI and the rise of fascism.

Actors : José Ferrer, James Wainwright, Broderick Crawford, Michael Parks,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

The story of the late J. Edgar Hoover, who was head of the FBI from 1924-1972. The film follows Hoover from his racket-busting days through his reign under eight U.S. presidents.

Actors : Steven Weber, Andreas Wisniewski, Joachim Günthner, Thomas Bangert,
Directors : Lucien Förstner,

Bela Kiss was one of the the most brutal serial killers, who killed 23 young women during the beginning of the first World War. The blood-drained bodies were found in metal barrels, conserved in alcohol.