10 Great World War 1 Movies You've Probably Never Seen

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  • @TJStock85
    @TJStock85 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +111

    The Lost Battalion is another hidden gem. I'm not sure if it was a made-for-tv movie but I have it on dvd and it's a great story.

    • @daniellewis2133
      @daniellewis2133 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I believe it was made for TV cause I think that's where I saw it first.

    • @bostonrailfan2427
      @bostonrailfan2427 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      made for TV and aired on A&E but still counts

    • @lennyrex1
      @lennyrex1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Fantastic Film.....one of the best of WWI

    • @danbratten3103
      @danbratten3103 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      My favorite WWI movie. I have the movie and 3 books about that group of soldiers. You really understand the grief that Maj. Whittlesey suffered from after the war that sadly lead him to commit suicide 😔

    • @petem7118
      @petem7118 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Agree mate…. A lot more accuracy than most especially at the time….. underrated film … I think the headlines of the time and the politics of it meant it wasn’t a bigger draw than it could have been……

  • @leechapman8455
    @leechapman8455 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    1 they shall not grow old is unbelievable

    • @michaeleastes1705
      @michaeleastes1705 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Agreed. Anyone with an interest in WWI should see it.

    • @future2478
      @future2478 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Where to watch??😮

    • @future2478
      @future2478 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@michaeleastes1705where to watch?😮

    • @michaeleastes1705
      @michaeleastes1705 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@future2478 I bought a DVD from Amazon, but it might be on streaming services too.

    • @t-mar9275
      @t-mar9275 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It likely wasn't considered because it as a documentary. It was also quite popular.

  • @hypercomms2001
    @hypercomms2001 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

    It still brings me to tears every time I watch Gallipoli such as knee impacted the end. As I went to Gallipoli in 1987, and visited the Nek… and Lone Pine… and without looking for it, saw real human bones In the remains of the trenches at that time.

    • @j.dunlop8295
      @j.dunlop8295 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Winston's most pethedick endeavor! 😢 Horrible, tragic and greatest Pommy incompetence example?

  • @therealunclevanya
    @therealunclevanya 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +91

    Paths of Glory, a Kubrick special

    • @RoninDave
      @RoninDave 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      that's a more famous movie

    • @healym67
      @healym67 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      How many WWI movies are/were famous, except maybe in their day. Kubric's is a classic, but how many people other than cineasts like us watch those old movies? Most in my Gen-X cohort have never seen it. I had my son watch it when he was ten. He loved it.

    • @lucas82
      @lucas82 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@RoninDaveI bet most haven't seen it though.

    • @johnpetrakis379
      @johnpetrakis379 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      Kirk Douglas's performance!!

    • @hd-xc2lz
      @hd-xc2lz 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Doesn't fit the category.

  • @mrfatbear3368
    @mrfatbear3368 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    Can’t believe Lost Battalion was not on this list. It is definitely at the top of my list.

    • @danbratten3103
      @danbratten3103 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It's almost criminal that it's not on this list. It's my favorite WWI movie as well. 👍🏻

    • @RoninDave
      @RoninDave 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      well if you saw it then it wouldn't be Top 10 WWI movies you probably haven't seen

  • @kurtb8474
    @kurtb8474 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +72

    The Blue Max with George Peppard is also an excellent WW1 flick. And I thought 1917 was rather good.

    • @iainduncan3409
      @iainduncan3409 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Yep, Blue Max is my favourite

    • @sartanawillpay7977
      @sartanawillpay7977 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@iainduncan3409 I agree but it never seems to make these kind of lists!

    • @PeterMayer
      @PeterMayer 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes!

    • @ClassyCountryGirl630
      @ClassyCountryGirl630 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I haven’t seen “The Blue Max”, but I have seen “1917”…great movie!

    • @spookerredmenace3950
      @spookerredmenace3950 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      i saw 1917 in theators and my mind was blown! the camera work, wow! even seeing the making of was impressive in how they made it work.

  • @stevewak547
    @stevewak547 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    Forty Thousand Horsemen
    The Lighthorseman
    Both a couple of Aussie classics.
    Thanks for including Gallipoli and Beneath Hill 60.
    If you were talking about TV, then you could include ANZACS The War Down Under. It was a 5 part series.

    • @IanSowers
      @IanSowers 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Ah yes, 'The Lighthorsemen' - very good, and also a different angle on the conflict.

    • @skipper4126
      @skipper4126 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      "They're under the guns".

    • @ClassyCountryGirl630
      @ClassyCountryGirl630 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The “ANZACS” mini series was excellent! The wise cracking Paul Hogan broke the tension, without being too comical or seeming disrespectful. I hadn’t seen “The Lighthorsemen” or “40,000 Horsemen”, but they’re on my watch list. IMHO, the ANZAC’s have not received enough much -deserved , world-wide credit nor recognition. Heroes, all! ❤

    • @ibonunzalu4193
      @ibonunzalu4193 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No logro encontrar 40 000 horsemens en castellano Vose,una lastima...

    • @ibonunzalu4193
      @ibonunzalu4193 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      El otro día vi "Chanuck Bair" en VOSE

  • @chrisjpfaff314
    @chrisjpfaff314 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    My vote for the best movie is "Paths of Glory" with Kirk Douglas.

    • @RoninDave
      @RoninDave 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      but that's not the point of this video. Paths of Glory is a more famous film like All Quiet on the Western Front

  • @danieldelahunty7973
    @danieldelahunty7973 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Gallipoli and Beneath Hill 60 are both great WW1 films. Another to add to this list is the Water Diviner starring Russell Crowe.

  • @rome8180
    @rome8180 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Johnny Got His Gun is an adaptation of a novel (also written by Dalton Trumbo). It's one of the most powerful books I've ever read. I still think about it 25 years after I first read it. The story is exactly the same as the movie, but I think it works even better in book form because you get to really be inside the character's head and experience the horror of his isolation and claustrophobia.

  • @IanSowers
    @IanSowers 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Several on here I'd never heard of - thanks!
    I saw 'Gallipoli' when it came out and cried during the end credits. Then as I was leaving the cinema, I looked at the poster and realized what it was - and then I cried again.

    • @user-li6es1so1k
      @user-li6es1so1k 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I too saw "Gallipoli" in a theater when it first played in the US. I left the theater in disbelief that the British defense ministry did those ANZAC soldiers so wrong. But I have Canadian relatives, so I shouldn't have been so shocked.

    • @kylestrainspotting1997
      @kylestrainspotting1997 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@user-li6es1so1k You do realise British & Commonwealth (excluding ANZAC) Casualty was much higher than that of the ANZAC's during the Gallipoli Campaign

    • @danrooc
      @danrooc 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kylestrainspotting1997 Actually, French losses at that campaign were higher than ANZAC's. Of course, for France that campaign lacked the foundational sense it has for NZ and Australia.

    • @qarljohnson4971
      @qarljohnson4971 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah , I probably developed some form of PTSD after seeing Gallipoli as a teenager.
      WW1 movies still easily choke me up, while most WW2 do not.
      Something about the astonishing pathos and pointlessness of the mutual slaughter on both sides.

    • @lawrencewood289
      @lawrencewood289 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@user-li6es1so1k Huh? You think the British "Defense Ministry " (which didn't exist in WWI ) did them wrong?! Your beef is with General Sir Ian Hamilton (incompetent). Btw it wasn't an ANZAC issue. Go look at British casualties at Helles Point. My grandfather was a Canadian soldier at Vimy Ridge and other WWI battles. Maybe do a little research?!

  • @charlesbruggmann7909
    @charlesbruggmann7909 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Capitaine Conan (Tavernier, F, 1996) - set in the period immediately after 1918 when Allied troops who had been involved on the Salonica front are involved in keeping the Soviets out of Bessarabia.
    One of the most interesting analyses of heroism ever.

  • @surferdess494
    @surferdess494 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    The Wipers Times is excellent

  • @1FokkerAce
    @1FokkerAce 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The Lost Battalion: a made-for-TV movie by the History channel, is one of the best ANY war movies I’ve ever seen. Rick Schroeder plays Charles Wittelsy.

  • @billrivenbark8983
    @billrivenbark8983 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    The Lost Battalion is one that needs to be in this list and All quiet on the Western Front with Ernest Borgnine.

    • @lawrencewood289
      @lawrencewood289 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      That isn't the famous version of AQOWT. The 1930 version with Louis Wolheim as Kat is the great version.

  • @IvanIgnjatovic-wb4nh
    @IvanIgnjatovic-wb4nh 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    There is one from Serbia and it's fantastic. It's called "Marš na Drinu" and it's about the first Austro Hungarian offensive on Serbia in 1914. Highly recommend

  • @screwtape2713
    @screwtape2713 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Others have mentioned Wings, the 1930 (and 1979) All Quiet On The Western Front, The Lost Battalion, Sgt. York, The Lighthorsemen, ANZACS and Passchendaele - all very good.
    I would add two others not on your list or mentioned yet in the comments: The Big Parade and Dawn Patrol. Probably not listed because both were made between the Wars.
    The Big Parade was the first great WW1 film, predating both Wings (1927) and All Quiet On The Western Front (1930). A silent movie made in 1925 starring John Gilbert as an American Doughboy, it ran 2 1/2 hours. The scene of troops advancing through a forest (probably the battle of Meuse-Argonne) is absolutely chilling.
    Dawn Patrol was clearly the inspiration for Aces High. Made in 1938, it starred Basil Rathbone, Errol Flynn and David Niven as seasoned British aces all nearing the end of their rope as their new pilots drop like flies around them. It's a great WW1 flying movie.

    • @colinbrown9549
      @colinbrown9549 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      William Kelly's War is also pretty good

  • @rofalmatt
    @rofalmatt 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    thank you ! Australian movies finally get some love

  • @andrewleah1983
    @andrewleah1983 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    Beneath Hill 60 is a fantastic film.

    • @jannarkiewicz633
      @jannarkiewicz633 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Except when Brendan Cowell says, "I'm 27 and you're 17 we have a 10 year age difference." -- I;m like, dude you're in your 30s and you look older... I did like the film.

    • @andrewleah1983
      @andrewleah1983 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jannarkiewicz633 Not sure that’s the actors fault. You do know the rarely play someone their age. That’s how acting works.

    • @jannarkiewicz633
      @jannarkiewicz633 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@andrewleah1983 I get it was the writers and they wanted to keep the ages correctd (acutually they were 16 and 26 in real life but 16 might have been too young). Changing the line to 17 and 33 -- would have fixed that ackward moment. But it was a good film.

    • @localbod
      @localbod 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I really enjoyed that film.

    • @andrewleah1983
      @andrewleah1983 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jannarkiewicz633 16 is the age of consent in Australia and this was 100 years ago so that’s your puritanical thinking that. Even today girls can legally marry at 12 if their parent gives consent.

  • @lennyrex1
    @lennyrex1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I actually really like Warhorse.....The Lost Battalion is essential. The Australian TV show Gallipoli is also really essential as well. The Blue Max, My Boy Jack, 70's All Quiet is also really good. The British TV series Our World War (especially the first episode) is also essential viewing.

    • @lawrencewood289
      @lawrencewood289 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You mean The Great War? Also, Warhorse is junk.

  • @tileux
    @tileux 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    2015 tv series, Gallipoli, is one of the best. It wad written to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the landings so it is historically accurate to a tee, not to mention superbly written.

    • @danrooc
      @danrooc 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      1999 All the King's Men

  • @catpainblackudder01
    @catpainblackudder01 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Monocled Mutineer, although not a film, a four part series, is well worth a watch, and the story behind it is even more interesting...

  • @Dulcimertunes
    @Dulcimertunes 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    “14 Diaries of the Great War”. Incredible

  • @raggeragnar
    @raggeragnar 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    I’ve been collecting ww1 DVD
    movies/series for a couple of years , and these are the ones I’ve got so far :
    The lost batallion
    1917
    Our world war
    A very long engagement
    Joyeux nôel
    War horse
    Passendale
    The great war
    Flyboys
    Red baron
    Beneath hill 60
    The war below
    Private Peaceful
    No mans land
    All quiet on the western front 1930
    All quiet on the western front 1979
    All quiet on the western front 2022
    The trench
    The fear
    Forbidden ground
    Silent mountain
    1914 All out
    21 brothers
    Gallipoli
    Paths of glory
    Blue Max
    Aces high
    Hells angels
    Passing bells
    All the kings men
    Company K
    My boy Jack
    Water diviner
    Testament of youth
    Journeys end
    Crimson field
    Anzacs
    Regeneration
    Trenches of hell
    Omjee group
    A war within
    The last front
    Wings
    Capitaine Conan
    Johnny got his gun

    • @JohnSmith-es9qx
      @JohnSmith-es9qx 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      See if you can find Chunuk Bair (1992). Not the best movie, but is about the Kiwis at Gallipoli

    • @raggeragnar
      @raggeragnar 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JohnSmith-es9qx : I’ll will do my best. Thank you for the tip!

    • @raggeragnar
      @raggeragnar 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@JohnSmith-es9qx : Hey , it’s posted here on youtube. I’ll watch it tonight and leave you a follow up comment here.

    • @raggeragnar
      @raggeragnar 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@JohnSmith-es9qx : Hello again ! Now I’ve watched the movie. I thought it was great. Very tough conditions for the soldiers indeed. And those cartoonish operett-officers with their heads in the clouds. Today they would’ve been the first to die if they ordered attacks like that. Thx 4 tip. /R

    • @danielelanza2441
      @danielelanza2441 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Another suggestion that might be difficult to find: 'Uomini contro' of Francesco Rosi ('70s)
      Based on the autobiography of Emilio Lussu 'Un anno sull'altopiano' (one year oh the mountain) follows the life of an italian officer in the Italian front .
      It's not exeptional and struggles to follow the story which is based on but the engagements and the characters are really well portrayed
      Being an italian movie might be difficult to find and even more dubbed but It's still a good one to look for (you can find it full on youtube not sure if with sub eng)

  • @hd-xc2lz
    @hd-xc2lz 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Impressive list. And a real relief to watch a "ten great movies you've probably never seen" video with very few films listed that every fan of the genre/type has seen many times over. For instance, saw "Gallipoli" more than once, but that was over two decades ago, I'm now inspired to watch it again along with others on this list.

  • @wswaine
    @wswaine 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Aces High is one of my favourite war films. I’ve seen the stage play of Journey’s End* at least a dozen times, but Aces High is better than the recent film version by quite a distance.
    *RC Sherriff also wrote the screen play for The Dambusters.

    • @peteranson4021
      @peteranson4021 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sherriff was a great play and screen writer responsible for many wonderful scripts and the best part is that Journey's End was written from personal experience.

  • @Geense2525
    @Geense2525 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for this list. I’ve been listening to tons of WW1 audiobooks (non-fiction) and this is a great way to put some perspective into what I’ve been listening to.

  • @hypercomms2001
    @hypercomms2001 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    You left out paths of glory, by Stanley, Kubrick!! I World War I movie set in the French trenches, starring Kirk Douglas. it had such an impact that it was banned in France for many years.

    • @andrewleah1983
      @andrewleah1983 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Most people have seen it. These are supposed to be ones we’ve not seen.

    • @hypercomms2001
      @hypercomms2001 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@andrewleah1983 sure.. Although"Gallipoli" is extremely well-known but typically in Australia...

    • @andrewleah1983
      @andrewleah1983 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@hypercomms2001 It’s well known in England.

    • @bostonrailfan2427
      @bostonrailfan2427 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@hypercomms2001it’s well known to anyone older than 50, it’s not exactly an obscure movie but compared with several other movies set in the war it’s forgotten

    • @bostonrailfan2427
      @bostonrailfan2427 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      it’s not forgotten, it’s actually highly respected for its direction, acting, and subject matter…it’s second or third behind Lawrence of Arabia and possibly All Quiet On the Western Front

  • @alanmacpherson3225
    @alanmacpherson3225 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    "What are your legs? Steel springs. What are they going to do? Hurl me down the track. How fast can you run? As fast as a leopard. How fast can you run? As fast as a leopard. " From Gallipoli.

  • @bonesf200
    @bonesf200 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Nice one having Regeneration on here cos it's a brilliant film. The music is outstanding.

  • @ives3572
    @ives3572 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." - Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

    • @lawrencewood289
      @lawrencewood289 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      British Foreign Secretary. NICE historical allusion.

  • @mfisher1952
    @mfisher1952 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Johnny Got His Gun was a truly great film - but not for the faint-hearted. It is horrifying and shattering.

  • @SgtRocko
    @SgtRocko 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    "The Wipers Times" is STUNNINGLY good and a MUST-WATCH.

  • @AnnoyingMoose
    @AnnoyingMoose 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    One great World War 1 movie that everyone SHOULD see is Passchendaele (2008).

    • @seanlander9321
      @seanlander9321 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, very good dentures in that show.

    • @IndieVolken
      @IndieVolken 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      utter garbage - "fire in the hole " = i think not ; and the cheesy pseudo nailed to the cross ending - barbed wired to the boards ; did i mention the unlikely love story

    • @Brok.
      @Brok. หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@IndieVolken don't forget that everyone magically stops firing during the cross scene like they've never seen suffering like that before- even the artillery crews back over the horizon!

    • @silasmerzenich
      @silasmerzenich หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Thats probably the worst movie I have ever seen

    • @lawrencewood289
      @lawrencewood289 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Melodramatic baloney with poor relationship to the actual battle.

  • @MarisaPaola-um5yb
    @MarisaPaola-um5yb 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    "how fast can you run"?, "as fast as a leopard"...Gallipoli was a masterpiece

  • @hakansoderholm6514
    @hakansoderholm6514 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Watching Gallipoli / listening to And the band played Waltzing Mathilda... chills! 😞

  • @anotherjones5384
    @anotherjones5384 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You can actually see the real breaker switch used to detonate the Hill 60 bumb in the Canberra war museum

  • @charlesteton
    @charlesteton 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow! Thank you! 10 movies to find and watch. C

  • @brianb8060
    @brianb8060 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    My Boy Jack, was a good BBC movie, staring Daniel Radcliffe.

  • @mikelanza9
    @mikelanza9 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Gallipoli.. The mini series was AMAZING

  • @andymoody8363
    @andymoody8363 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is a really good pick, Beneath Hill 60 is a particularly good film and I absoluetely love A Very Long Engagement and See You Up There, The Lost Patrol completely passed me by and must catch up.

  • @DLYChicago
    @DLYChicago 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    The original "All Quiet on the Western Front" 1930 is really good.

  • @23rdFoot
    @23rdFoot 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    "Field Punishment No.1" Currently on Amazon Prime should also be on this list.

  • @Flames_The_WolfYT
    @Flames_The_WolfYT หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sgt. York, 1917, lost battalion, Gallipali, All Quiet on western front, all 3 versions are great!

  • @PaulVandersypen
    @PaulVandersypen 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I own Gallipoli on DVD and have watched it several times. Of the ten films on the list, it is the only one I know, let alone have seen. Thanks for the homework!

  • @adamlee3772
    @adamlee3772 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Beneath Hill 60 is number one in this list mate, by a country mile, closely followed by Joyeaux Noelle and then Gallipoli.

  • @mikegammill2455
    @mikegammill2455 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    What Price Glory, with James (Jimmy) Cagney

  • @TheWaynos73
    @TheWaynos73 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The Blue Max!

  • @shiftysquiff5807
    @shiftysquiff5807 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Seen them all!

  • @marcomlott9099
    @marcomlott9099 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Oh, What a Lovely War from Richard Attenborough.

    • @deogratias273
      @deogratias273 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Heart-wrenching!

    • @davidwright7193
      @davidwright7193 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Joan Crawford’s classic is far too well known both as a play and a film.

  • @bdleo300
    @bdleo300 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    March on the Drina.
    Great movie.

  • @Elitist20
    @Elitist20 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    One I'd add is Roger Corman's 'The Red Baron' aka 'Von Richthofen and Brown' (1971), starring John Phillip Law as Manfred von Richthofen and Don Stroud as Roy Brown, the Canadian credited with shooting him down.

    • @seanlander9321
      @seanlander9321 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Brown made the claim, but the credit has been proved too often as Australian ground fire.

    • @Elitist20
      @Elitist20 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@seanlander9321 Yes, he was buried by the Australians with full military honours. One of his flying boots is in the Australian War Memorial museum in Canberra!

  • @IndieVolken
    @IndieVolken 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    BBC 2 parter 'Birdsong ' is up there with Beneath Hill 60 as best

  • @jestergodfield690
    @jestergodfield690 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Okay, it's not a ww1 film (I think?) *BUT*
    ..."The water diviner" is amazing and so heartbreaking!
    Basic intro: An Australian man has two sons who ran off to fight in some war in India, he knows they're dead but all he wants is their bodies back.

    • @arkdeniz
      @arkdeniz 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It is a (post) WW1 film. Crowe’s character’s sons died at Gallipoli.

    • @colinbrown9549
      @colinbrown9549 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@arkdeniz It's both because a signiificant part of it is his sons experiemces in the war

  • @MrAmptech
    @MrAmptech 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Johnny Got His Gun changed my view of warfare. As a child I glorified it, but this was a point that lead me to look at the larger picture.

  • @jonathanwilliams1065
    @jonathanwilliams1065 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Two really good films that are not mentioned are The Lost Battalion, about an American unit surrounded during the Meuse-Argonne offensive, (which was basically the death blow to the German army) and which won its leader the Medal of Honor, with plenty of other decorations handed out in a last stand reminiscent of Zulu, and Flyboys, about the Lafayette Escadrille and while the characters are factionalized they are based on real pilots who fought and died in the skies above the western front

  • @tongobongo7061
    @tongobongo7061 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Blue Max was an incredible WWI film

  • @ives3572
    @ives3572 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting (WWI) to those who want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth and may it burn their lousy souls." - Paul Nash

  • @russellmiles2861
    @russellmiles2861 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I use Regeneration in training. Under Hill 60 is renounced for the story does not denigrate the enemy; I add the Admiral about the bizarre politics.

  • @aimdrummer
    @aimdrummer 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I've seen six of them but I can see that most people wouldn't have.
    Beneath Hill 60 is probably my favourite of the bunch.
    Not watched Gallipoli since Gibson went weird, wouldn't give him house-room but the recent remake was very good.

  • @uncle7215
    @uncle7215 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wooden Crosses, Westfront 1918, Stosstrupp 1917, Verdun: Visions of history are all amazing films

  • @janedoe5229
    @janedoe5229 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    What about Sargent York? And it's a true story. They even took some of the dialog from his diary.

  • @rckoala8838
    @rckoala8838 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    A Very Long Engagement also features the American Jodie Foster in a French-speaking role.

  • @manubuket9634
    @manubuket9634 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Lawrence of Arabia, which doesn't take place in Europe but still speaks about british efforts to open a new front against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East. Arab tribes were fooled at that time, and the whole world still keeps paying the price today.

    • @johnpetrakis379
      @johnpetrakis379 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Arabs, "our tribe does not carry water"

    • @DrTWG
      @DrTWG 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Good point - it's a biopic but a war film as well - oh , and an epic masterpiece by David Lean ! The trick is not _minding_ that it's not on the list .

  • @mattduin7144
    @mattduin7144 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The incredible thing about Beneath Hill 60 is it is the true story about the biggest explosion the world had ever seen until the nuclear bomb was invented

  • @bobbythompson3544
    @bobbythompson3544 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have watched films and documentary on Gallipoli, I haven’t heard any mention of of the Scottish Rifles, my great Uncle Jimmy Rainey fought there, and the Palestines three battles, plus the Somme, he died at the Marne!

  • @christopherwall444
    @christopherwall444 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Paths of Glory spectacular...Where Eagles Dare my favorite kid years theater movie...1917..awesome

  • @Toledotourbillion
    @Toledotourbillion 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Man I was obsessed with Galipoli because of Mel Gibson and the SMLE MK3. Too bad the picture quality degraded so much.

  • @bostonrailfan2427
    @bostonrailfan2427 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    two that you probably ignored because they’re not British are The Lost Battalion and Sergeant York
    Lost Battalion tells about a battalion of American soldiers cutoff from the allies during a surprise attack but causes a stall in the German attack that ends up causing it to collapse saving the allies from retreating
    Sergeant York is a biography of the most decorated American in WWI but is a rare account of a soldier from pre-war to post-war life including his reluctance to fight in the first place

    • @aaronleverton4221
      @aaronleverton4221 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And I read both stories in a book called The Great War, Stories from World War One when I was a kid. Along with Count Felix von Luckner and the Seeadler, Major Reynal at Fort Vaux, Billy Barker and his final dogfight, Matej Kocak, Douglas Macarthur and one Thomas Edward Lawrence (latterly of Arabia).

    • @teesman61
      @teesman61 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Sergeant York 🤣 old and unrealistic. Of its time though.

    • @bostonrailfan2427
      @bostonrailfan2427 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@teesman61 old, yes…unrealistic? actually read up on him before spouting ignorant garbage, kid

    • @SuperEdge67
      @SuperEdge67 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Yanks were only there for the last 5 minutes, not worth mentioning. They turned up late for the next one as well.

    • @bostonrailfan2427
      @bostonrailfan2427 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@SuperEdge67 not worth mentioning yet your country won’t STFU about murdering millions of people in Africa and India

  • @MartynCooper-vv9dk
    @MartynCooper-vv9dk หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Red Baron, another one of my favourites as it is from the German view, I encourage you to view it.

  • @qarljohnson4971
    @qarljohnson4971 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "Black and White in Color" is a 1977 French movie that won the Academy Award for best foreign movie.
    It is a black comedy taking place in French West Africa during WW1.
    Well worth being on this list.
    "Tolkein", the movie about LOTR author JRR Tolkein's experiences in WW1 is also very informative.
    Oh! How can I forget the last episode of Blackadder?
    Possibly the best (if tragic) ending to any series.

  • @NewEnglandOtaku
    @NewEnglandOtaku 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love watching WWI and WWII movies, I actually got to watch the movie Stalingrad (I think the 1993 version because it was said that the 2016 version wasn't as good... of course I had to download it..) but I loved All's Quiet on the Western Front especially the Ernest Borgnine version and the Netflix version was also good. I watched Beneath Hill 60, loved it! I also watched The Somme and Passchendale.. I watched Patton, A Bridge too Far, Bridge at Remagen, The Kings Choice, De Gaulle, I actually enjoyed watching those movies despite them being in Danish and French.. but it was still entertaining.. I also watched some Russian movies.. I think one of them was White Tiger or something similar.. I watched T-34 as well.. I just liked those movies.. I even watched Tobruk (or however it was spelled)

  • @mischadickerhof5375
    @mischadickerhof5375 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    And what about all the incredible WW1 films from the interwar period like Abel Gance's «J'accuse», William Wellmann's «Wings», Howard Hawk's «Dawn Patrol», Lewis Milestone's «All Quiet on The Wastern Front», plus such gems like Kubrick's «Paths of Glory»?

  • @trillioncrowns
    @trillioncrowns 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    And Number 1!! Tales from the crypt episode called yellow! look it up, so so good

  • @GoatHunterFR
    @GoatHunterFR 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    "Les fusillés" is a pearl french movie about the full groups of soldiers "shot for the example"

  • @rcspaintservice
    @rcspaintservice 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Seen 8, 7, 5, 3, 2 and 1. Must check out the rest.

  • @spookerredmenace3950
    @spookerredmenace3950 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    the trench was pretty good, Danel was so great as a the hard but loving sgt

    • @ClassyCountryGirl630
      @ClassyCountryGirl630 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      “The Trench” was great at depicting the claustrophobia and the anxiety of the fresh recruits awaiting battle, but….seeing “green grass “ in No Man’s Land was a major historical flaw. The war had been already been raging for two years. The landscape would have been muddy, scarred with shell holes, and littered with the bodies of the dead and the dying. Otherwise, it was a good movie.(And yes, Daniel Craig’s acting is excellent !)

  • @bigbadredsox
    @bigbadredsox 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The Odd Angry Shot and Breaker Morant. Way back when HBO actually showed good movies.

    • @habrok42
      @habrok42 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Breaker Morant is actually a Boer War movie, iirc, and the same storyline as Paths of Glory. It is a great story, though, and both are very well done. Have not heard of the Old Angry Shot, but will look for it.

    • @hardroaddavey5399
      @hardroaddavey5399 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@habrok42 The Odd Angry Shot is a Vietnam War movie

  • @toastnjam7384
    @toastnjam7384 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A few I want to check out.
    BTW Sahara is a remake of a Soviet movie The Thirteen (1937)

  • @yellowjackboots2624
    @yellowjackboots2624 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You want to see a great war movie? Watch The Beast Of War. It's not WW1 but it is fantastic

    • @habrok42
      @habrok42 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      AKA The Beast. Agreed. I can understand that it doesn't speak to everyone, but imo it ranks with the best war movies out there.

  • @user-zn9yl7cw5m
    @user-zn9yl7cw5m 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Hedd Wyn was nominated for the best foreign language lfilm about 1990. It is the story of a young Welsh poet whose sole goal in life is to win the National Eistedfod chair for strict meter poetry at the Welsh festival held since the 13th century. Hedd Wyn is his poetic nom de plum. Over the heads of them all is the Great War and the unfair rules of the filling of the ranks. Elis Evans lets himself be drafted in order to save his younger brother. He does win the prize though several weeks after he falls in action. The chair (hand carved) is draped in black. Based on a true story. In Welsh with English subtitles it also depicts the strains between the Welsh and English .

  • @chriswarburtonbrown1566
    @chriswarburtonbrown1566 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Why do you think we haven't seen them? I've seen four. And you didn't mention Le Grand Illusion (1938), or the original All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) surely two of the greatest war films.

  • @Acme633
    @Acme633 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Actually, most of the films you mentioned were quite well-known, and I had watched all but two or three of them. Few people had the chance to watch "Johnny Got His Gun", but it was a well-known antiwar film in the 1970s. "Gallipoli" marked the rise of Mel Gibson, though he played only a secondary role to Mark Lee's character. Of the more recent films, I recommend the French film "A Very Long Engagement" - much truer to the times than "1917".

  • @ives3572
    @ives3572 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice so that the whole affair would not be seen for what it was: a meaningless waste of millions of lives. Logically, if the flower of youth had been cut down in Flanders, the survivors were not the flower: the dead were superior to the traumatized living. In this way, the virtual destruction of a generation further increased the distance between the old and the young, between the official and the unofficial." - Robert Hughes

  • @dElChapuliun
    @dElChapuliun 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    does anybody know what movie he shows at 0:00

  • @d0e322
    @d0e322 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    A very long engagement and See you up there are really good

  • @timholder6825
    @timholder6825 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Aces High is basically just, Journey's End, set in the air.

  • @sgt.slapstick3996
    @sgt.slapstick3996 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    It's down right criminal that you didn't mention either We Will Not Grow Old the documentary by Peter Jackson or Season 4 of Black Adder. I can understand skipping Black Adder as it's a TV Show but that ending alone cements it as a true WW1 epic.

  • @jugbywellington1134
    @jugbywellington1134 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "The Great Swindle" is a fantastic book. I had no idea it had been made into a film. Is the film as good as the book, though?

  • @aodhganmerrimac
    @aodhganmerrimac 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1925's "The Big Parade"!!!!!! One of the greatest war films ever!

  • @ajudygarlandfan3019
    @ajudygarlandfan3019 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Seen about 75% of these plus several others including some fantastic German and French ones.

  • @SouPNaZi316
    @SouPNaZi316 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    how the eff is Passchendaele not on here?

    • @seanlander9321
      @seanlander9321 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Because the acting is just rubbish, as is the storyline.

  • @davidcarr7436
    @davidcarr7436 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I would like to recommend a Canadian film from 2008 entitled "Passchendaele" for no other reason than it focuses on the Canadian army. A much neglected contributor to both world wars.

  • @dustingreen9075
    @dustingreen9075 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice list. Original!

  • @killingfields07
    @killingfields07 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Sargeant York

  • @audiearmorer2686
    @audiearmorer2686 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Johnny got his Gun ....! Thanks .... A great movie !

  • @jamesorth6460
    @jamesorth6460 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    you overlooked the 1930s All Quiet on the Western Front or is this just the winners movies?

  • @enscroggs
    @enscroggs 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    "... the futility of conflict." A popular shibboleth among people who haven't given much thought to the history. It what people who could give a tinker's dam about the Poles, the Czechs, the Slovenians, the Finns, and about a dozen other ethnicities whose modern history begins with the defeat of the Central Powers by the Entente. And where would Europe be if no resistance had been offered by the British and Americans to Hitler and Hirohito. Answer that question honestly before prattling about the "futility of conflict".

    • @tobyoneil1969
      @tobyoneil1969 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I mean its about WW1, where the 'futility of conflict' rings truest. The whole reason the war happened, who fought, why they fought it and how they ended up just exemplifies this. You mention 'Poles, the Czechs, the Slovenians, the Finns and about a dozen other ethnicities' and say calling the war futility is an assumption without merit since their modern history dates back to 1918 and this being the result of a futile struggle is not the right way to think about it. But thats the point, the world changed for practically nothing. Millions upon millions died for basically nothing. The outcome was just the outcome. Then to say that one couldn't call the great war a needless and wasteful event because later on more wars were fought is stupid. WW1 was a political and geographical war, WW2 was about stopping the bad guys (dumb way to chalk up WW2 but you named dropped so thats whats happening here). The fight of 1939-1945 is nowhere near the same as what happened 1914-1918.

  • @philmanson2991
    @philmanson2991 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "Paths of Glory." Kubrick. Need I say more?

  • @TimberWolf99
    @TimberWolf99 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Missed one, because of course you did.
    Passchendaele (2008)

    • @andrewleah1983
      @andrewleah1983 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      These are supposed to be films we’ve not seen.

    • @Hogtownboy1
      @Hogtownboy1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@andrewleah1983trust me except Canadians of english stock. Noone watched this film

    • @andrewleah1983
      @andrewleah1983 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Hogtownboy1 I’ve watched it countless times. It does star my man Paul Gross so I think that helped.

    • @Hogtownboy1
      @Hogtownboy1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@andrewleah1983 so you are not a Canadian of UK stock

    • @andrewleah1983
      @andrewleah1983 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Hogtownboy1 I’m English of English stock.