wwi movies

WWI MOVIES:37 Days, BBC TV Series - Episode 1 (2014)

June 28, 1914: Arch Ferdinand murdered

Rasputin (1996)

r. 1894 - 1918 - Tsar Nicholas II

June 29, 1914: Tsar Nicholas learns of the Archdukes assassination

37 Days, BBC TV Series - Episode 1 (2014)

Jul 23, 1914: Austrian ultimatum released


July 28, 1914: last run-up to WWI

Austria bombs Belgrade

July 28, 1914: WWI begins with an Austrian invasion of Serbia


Aug 1, 1914: German intervention begins - first attack in Luxembourg


Aug 2, 1914

Aug 3, 1914

Aug 4, 1914: Germans enter Belgium that morning

Parades End, Episode 3 (2012)

Aug 4, 1914: British intervention begins

Anzacs, TV Series - Episode 1 (1985)

Aug 4, 1914: Britain declares war on Germany

Aug 6, 1914: Australians enlist in Melbourne

Hitler: the Rise of Evil - Part 1 (2003)

Aug 1914: 25-year-old Hitler celebrates the declaration of war in Germany

Aug 1914: German invasion of Belgium

The Officers Ward/La chambre des officiers (2001)

Aug 1914: officer Adrien is seriously injured during the first days of war

Saint George Slays the Dragon/ (2008)

Aug 15-24, 1914 - Battle of Cer: first Allied victory

Rasputin (1996)


Aug 30, 1914 - Battle of Tannenberg: Russia suffers a huge defeat

Sept 5-12, 1914: Battle of the Marne - French prevent Germans from taking ParisOct - Nov 1914: First Battle of Ypres - Germans try (and fail) to capture Ypres (last bit of unconquered Belgium)

Oct 29, 1914 - Turkey joins the war


Oct - Nov 1914: First Battle of Ypres

Oct 29, 1914: Hitler arrives in Ypres, Belgium


Oct 29, 1914: Turkey joins the war as the ANZACs prepare to leave; they must now land in Egypt

instead of France

Nov 1914 - Apr 1915: ANZACs train for 5 months

Joyeux Noel (2005)

Dec 1914: Christmas Truce


Dec 1914:

120 (2008)

Dec 22, 1914 - Jan 17, 1915 - Battle of Sarikamish - Russia vs Turkey

Gandhi (1982)

Jan 1915: Gandhi returns to India, receiving a heros welcome

La victoire en chantant/Black and White in Color (1976)

Jan 1915: French colonized Africans fighting against a village in German Cameroon

Le pantalon (1997)

Feb 1915: based on the true story of Lucien Bersot, who faces trial for refusing to wear dirty, blood-stained pants.

Ararat (2002)

April 1915 - Armenian Genocide

Apr - May 1915: Second Battle of Ypres - Germans try to conquer Ypres again (famously using chlorine gas for the first time - caused 63% of British casualties)

Legends of the Fall (1994)

Apr 1915 - Second Battle of Ypres: Tristan and Samuel fighting as US Volunteers for the British Canadian force in Ypres

Apr 1915 - Jan 1916: Battle of Gallipoli - French-Commonwealth vs Ottomans (defeated - General Hamilton had to have his men evacuate)

Gallipoli (1981)

Apr 1915 - Jan 1916 - Gallipoli (Turkey): 2 Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli

All the Kings Men (1999)

Apr 1915 - Jan 1916 - Gallipoli (Turkey): the Sandringham Company mysterious disappears


Apr 1915 - Jan 1916 - Battle of Gallipoli (Turkey)

Apr 25, 1915: ANZACs land in Gallipoli

Apr 26, 1915: Hamilton sends letter to ANZACs telling them to dig, dig, dig

Jun 7, 1915: Martin returns to the front

May 23, 1915: Italy joins the war

Beneath Hill 60 (2010)


Aug 1915 - Battle of Hill 60, the last major assault of the battle



Aug 6, 1915: Lone Pine

Sept 21, 1915: Keith Murdoch meets with British PM Lloyd George

Sept 1915: the 40,000 ANZACs begin their retreat from Gallipoli

Clara Immerwahr (2014)

Apr 22, 1915 - first use of chemical gas in Flanders

My Boy Jack (2007)

Sept - Oct 1915 - Battle of Loos: author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing in Loos.

Raspoutine (2011)

Aug 21, 1915: Tsar becomes the Head of the Russian Army

Reds (1981)

Nov 1915: 29-year-old Louise Bryant meets Jack Reed for the first time

Dec 1915: Louise Bryant moves to New York with Jack Reed



Dec 20, 1915: the ANZACs leave

Feb - Dec 1916 - Battle of Verdun: Germans began their war of attrition against the FrenchJul - Nov 1916 - Battle of Somme: Somme used by British to take pressure off the French

Forbidden Ground (2013)

1916 - 3 British soldiers stranded in No Man's Land after a failed charge on the Germans.

Deathwatch (2002)

1916: the middle of WWI, nine British soldiers caught behind enemy lines seek refuge in a complex network of German trenches. They are hunted down by a monster

The World Wars, Episode 1 - Trial By Fire (2014)

1916: 33-year-old Mussolini fighting the Austrians in northern Italy

Jan 1916: 41-year-old Churchill fighting Germans in Belgium

The Red Baron (2008)

Baron Manfred von Richthofen (1892 - 1918)

Mar 1916: 24-year-old Richthofen begins flying


Mar 1916: 31-year-old Patton fights Pancho Villa in Mexico

Flyboys (2006)

Apr 1916: Lafayette Escadrille, Americans who volunteered for the French military before the US entered WWI, and became the country's first fighter pilots.


Apr 1916: ANZACs arrive in France


Apr 1916: a woman patient arrives

Reds (1981)

Apr 1916: Louise Bryant and Jack Reed move to Provincetown

Jun 1916: Jack Reed attends the DNC

Dec 1916: Louise Bryant and Jack Reed now married..

The Young Indiana Jones - S01E03 - London, May 1916 (1992)

May 1916: 17-year-old Indiana arrives in London, and enlists for the Belgian Army; he attends a speech by Sylvia Pankhurst; he talks with 40-year-old Churchill


Jun? 1916: Haig makes preparations for Somme

The Trench (1999)

Jul - Nov 1916 - Battle of Somme



Jul 1, 1916: Somme begins

Jul 21, 1916: third week of battle

A Very Long Engagement/Un long dimanche de fiancailles (2004)

Jul - Nov 1916 - Battle of the Somme

the story of a young woman's relentless search for her fianc, who has disappeared from the

trenches of the Somme

The Young Indiana Jones - S02E02 - Early Aug 1916 - Battle of the Somme (1992)


Aug 1916 - Battle of the Somme

The Young Indiana Jones - S02E03 (1992)

Aug 1916 - Germany: Indiana escapes a German POW camp with de Gaulle

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Aug 1916: a group of German students enlist for war

Nov 1916 - Apr 1917: students go through training


Sept 1916 - Battle of Verdun



Oct 1916: Hitler is wounded in his left thigh

Oct - Nov 1916: Hitler hospitalized

The Young Indiana Jones - ?? (1992)

Oct 1916 - Paris

The Young Indiana Jones - ??/S01E06 (1992)

Nov - Dec 1916: German East Africa

Rasputin (1996)


Dec 30, 1916: Rasputin is killed


Jan 1917 - Congo:


Feb 1917 - France: Indiana joins the American volunteer Lafayette force

Mata Hari, la vraie histoire (2003)

Feb 1917: story of Mata Hari, a Dutch woman accused of being a German spy

Feb 1917: Russian Revolution - Tsar removed, replaced by Provisional GovernmentMar 1917: Germans retreat to the Hindenburg Line

Andrew Marrs History of the World - Episode 7 - Age of Industry, BBC (2012)

Feb 1917 - Zimmerman Telegram

Apr 1917 - Lenin passes through Germany to return to Russia (with the aid of Zimmerman)


Mar 1917: Hitler returns to his regiment in Belgium

April 1917: USA joins the warApril 1917: Canadians seize Vimy Ridge, France + British advance in ArrasApril 1917: disastrous Nivelle Offensive (meant to end in the war in 48 hours)

Reds (1981)

Apr 1917: USA joins WWI; Socialist Labor Party opposes it

Jun 1917: Louise Bryant leaves for Paris as a war correspondent

Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

Jun 1917: Joe volunteers to fight

Truman (1995)

Jun 1917: 33-year-old Truman volunteers


Jun 12, 1917: Paul and the other students finally arrive on the front

June 19, 1917: Kemmerick is shot and amputated ; Kemmerick dies

Chaplin (1992)

June 1917: Chaplin films The Immigrant

1917: Chaplin attends a party hosted by Douglas Fairbanks also attended by Mary Pickford and

Mildred Harris

June 1917 - Battle of Ypres: British victoryJul - Nov 1917 - Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele): stalemate

Notable low point of the war - high disillusionment began


Jul 1917: Paul kills a French soldier stuck in a shell hole with him

Regeneration/Behind the Lines (1997)

Jul 1917: focuses on soldiers in mental asylum and their experience in the war

Passchendaele (2008)

July - Nov 1917 - Battle of Passchendaele: the lives of a troubled veteran, his nurse girlfriend and a naive boy intersect first in Alberta and then in Belgium.

King & Country (1964)

July - Nov 1917 - Battle of Passchendaele: an army private is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him finds out there is more to the case than meets the eye.

Company K (2004)

In 1933, a troubled veteran, Joe Delaney, struggles to write a history of the marine company in which he served. He must confront the dead German soldier who haunts his dreams.


Sept 1917: Paul and co. meet French women behind the lines

Sept 1917: Paul is shot in the arm and goes to a church bed for healing

La France (2006)

Sept 1917: a young woman secretly joins the French army after her husband is killed

Reds (1981)

Aug 17, 1917: Bryant and Reed travel to Russia right before the revolution

Oct 7, 1917: Lenin arrives in Russia


Oct? 1917: Joe is hit by a mortar and taken to a hospital, where doctors assume he is brain dead


Oct? 1917: Paul on leave

Aces High (1976)

Oct 1917: a naive young officer straight from school arrives on the Western front to fight the air war against the Germans. However, the life expectancy of green pilots is not very good.

Oct 1917: Russian Bolshevik Revolution

Rasputin (1996)


Oct 26, 1917: Bolsheviks capture the Winter Palace


Nov 1917: Patton arrives in France

Nov 1917 - Battle of Cambrai: first mass tank attack (stalemate)Dec 1917: Russia surrenders to Germany

Les mes grises/Grey souls (2005)

Dec 1917: story of a girls murder in a small French village


Dec 25, 1917: Joe learns that its Christmas

Jan 1918: Joe communicates with morse, asking to die

Mar - Jul 1918: German Spring Offensive (failed)

The Fighting 69th (1940)

Feb 1918: the 69th see their first combat in France

An Accidental Soldier (2013)

Mar 1918: an Australian deserter in France takes refuge in a French womans home

The Blue Max (1966)

Mar 1918: German Corporal Bruno Stachel begins fighting

J. Edgar (2011)

Mar 1918: 23-year-old J. Edgar meets Helen Gandy

Reds, Part 2 (1981)

April 1918: Reed arrives back in the US


Jun 1918: Paul returns to the front ; Kat dies ; Paul dies

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill - Episode 6 (1974)

Jun 1918: Jennie marries Montagu Porch

La Tranche Des Espoirs (2003)

June - Jul 1918: French and German soldiers began fraternizing towards the end of war

In Love and War (1996)

Jul 1918: reporter Ernest Hemingway is an ambulance driver in Italy during WWI. He is injured in battle and ends up in the hospital, where he falls in love with his nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky.

A Farewell to Arms (1957)

Jul 1918 based on Hemingways novel; an affair between an English nurse an an American soldier on the Italian front during WWI

Truman (1995)

Jul 1918: Truman leading troops in the Vosges


Jul 1918: Hitler serving as a messenger in Belgium

Rasputin (1996)


Jul 16, 1918: the Tsar and his family are murdered

Raspoutine (2011)


Jul 16, 1918: the Tsar and his family are murdered

Warhorse (2011)

Aug - Sept 1918 - Second Battle of the Somme

Aug - Sept 1918: Allied victories begin

Truman (1995)

Jul 1918: Truman leading troops in Meuse

Captain Conan/Capitaine Conan (1996)

Sept 1918: aggressive soldier Conan leads a band of 50 ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-hand combat. Conan is sent to Bucharest after the war, then Russia to fight Bolsheviks.


Sept 1918: British Henry Tandy aims at Hitler, but decides to let him live

Sept 1918: Patton devises the strategy of tanks at St Mihiel

Oct 1918: German navy begins mutineering

The Lost Battalion (2001)

Oct 1918: a US battalion of over 500 men gets trapped behind enemy lines in the French Argonne Forest during the closing weeks of WWI


Oct 13, 1918: Hitler suffers from a mustard gas attack


Oct 13, 1918: Hitler suffers from a mustard gas attack


Oct 14, 1918: Patton participates in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive

Chaplin (1992)

Oct 20, 1918: Shoulder Arms released (Chaplin movie about WWI)

Oct 23, 1918: Chaplin marries Mildred Harris after a pregnancy scare


Nov 11, 1918: Hitler is hospitalized when he hears news of the armistice

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

Nov 11, 1918: Benjamin Button is born and left with a black couple at a retirement home

Nov 11, 1918: WWI ends

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