5 Films that Showcased the Other Side of Gruesome World War I

News18 India ^ | Oct 22, 2018

[CondoleezzaProtege]

Any others?

[dfwgator]

All Quiet on the Western Front

Gallipoli

[forgotten man]

“The Big Parade” was good. It is the only silent movie that has ever held my attention.

[Sans-Culotte]

The Dawn Patrol (1938)

Wings (silent 1927)

[RickGee]

The Big Parade
https://www.amazon.com/Big-Parade-Blu-ray-Book/dp/B00D9BNOKK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1540500768&sr=8-2&keywords=the+big+parade+blu+ray&dpID=51TrNLYyMoL&preST=_SX300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

Wings
https://www.amazon.com/Wings-Blu-ray-Clara-Bow/dp/B0067MLCEI/ref=ice_ac_b_dpb_twi_blu_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1540500809&sr=8-2&keywords=wings+clara+bow

[miss marmelstein]

Paths of Glory is brilliant. Don't see War Horse, it is an embarrassment compared to the wonderfully inventive stage version which I saw both in London and New York City. Spielberg stupidly said after the filming that “real horses can't act!” Guess he never saw Lonely Are the Brave. But nothing can compare to the giant puppets used in the stage version of War Horse which reduced audiences to quiet contemplation on the horrors of war.

All Quiet on the Western Front and Gallipoli come to mind. There are so many others - one by Abel Gance which slips my mind.

[LeonardFMason]

The Blue Max.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Probably J'accuse...

[onedoug]

Sergeant York

[Dr. Ursus]

Agree on Paths of Glory and War Horse. My friend showed me this- Archduke Ferdinand’s car license plate number- A111 118.

[Tijeras_Slim]

The Lighthorsemen

The charge on Beersheeba was magnificent.

[discostu]

Not technically a movie but at 6 half hour episodes you can watch it in one sitting: Blackadder Guest Forth. For a comedy it’s pretty severe, especially the final episode.

[rlmorel]

BFL

[miss marmelstein]

Yes! Not to be confused with a movie about Emile Zola! What made this so impactful is that the war dead come back to haunt the living who caused the war. Horrifying and years before Dawn of the Dead.

[miss marmelstein]

Never saw it and yet most fans of Blackadder remark about that episode.

[Snickering Hound]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHYRfukHToc

Peter Jackson has put considerable effort into colorizing and speed correcting old WWI footage.

In the theatres now in the UK.

Looks amazing.

[Tijeras_Slim]

He did a lot of great stuff... even though the joke went that you got charged the kids price for Napoleon on if you were still under 12 when the film ended.

[discostu]

It’s... whew. The fun part with Blackadder is they actually mixed a lot of interesting history in with 4 seasons of largely silly, often slapstick comedy. And for the end they run right towards the worst parts of WWI.

[Grimmy]

Deathwatch
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286306/

Trench 11
http://www.firstshowing.net/2018/us-trailer-for-wwi-zombie-horror-trench-11-directed-by-leo-scherman/

WW1 and zombies. You knew it had to happen sooner or later.

[miss marmelstein]

I saw several episodes and enjoyed them. But I lost track. They were originally shown on PBS. Somehow I lost track of it.