World War I Feature Films
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.
There will be a separate list for Documentaries.
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.
There will be a separate list for Documentaries.
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- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleJoseph LeveringStarsMary PickfordJack HoltRaymond HattonA 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.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinEdna PurvianceSyd ChaplinCharlie is a boot camp private who has a dream of being a hero who goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsLillian GishDorothy GishRobert HarronYoung lovers in a French village are torn apart with the coming of the Great War.
- DirectorAlan CroslandStarsMarguerite CourtotRaymond McKeeErich von StroheimA 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.
- DirectorAbel GanceStarsRomuald JoubéMaxime DesjardinsSéverin-MarsThe 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.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsAdolph LestinaCarol DempsterFrances ParksStory 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.
- DirectorBurton L. KingStarsRobert AlexanderGeorge G. McMurtryCharles W. WhittleseyA 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.
- DirectorRex IngramStarsRudolph ValentinoAlice TerryPomeroy CannonAn extended family split up in France and Germany find themselves on opposing sides of the battlefield during World War I.
- DirectorKing VidorGeorge W. HillStarsJohn GilbertRenée AdoréeHobart BosworthA young American soldier witnesses the horrors of the Great War.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsVictor McLaglenEdmund LoweDolores Del RíoU.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...
- DirectorRex IngramStarsApollon UniÁlex NovaKada-Abd-el-KaderThe story of a female German spy who willingly sacrifices her life for her country.
- DirectorRichard E. NormanStarsLaurence CrinerKathryn BoydBoise De LeggeA 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.
- DirectorCharles ReisnerStarsSyd ChaplinHarold GoodwinJack AckroydThe adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanHarry d'Abbadie d'ArrastStarsClara BowCharles 'Buddy' RogersRichard ArlenTwo young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeMauritz StillerStarsPola NegriClive BrookClaude GillingwaterDuring WWI, a French farm girl and a German P.O.W. fall in love.
- DirectorFred NibloStarsLillian GishRalph ForbesRalph EmersonCarl 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.
- DirectorMauritz StillerStarsPola NegriJames HallGeorge SiegmannDuring World War I, a hotel maid and Austrian officer in hiding attempt to survive in a Russian-occupied town.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellBen BardA street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.
- DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceFrank LloydStarsColleen MooreGary CooperEugenie BessererAll 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.
- DirectorRichard WallaceStarsNancy CarrollGary CooperPaul LukasShortly 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.
- DirectorMichael CurtizDarryl F. ZanuckStarsDolores CostelloGeorge O'BrienNoah BeeryThe Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.
- DirectorLéon PoirierStarsAlbert PréjeanJeanne Marie-LaurentSuzanne BianchettiDramatic re-enactment of the battle of Verdun during World War I, as seen by both French and German sides.
- DirectorBruce BairnsfatherStarsJimmy SavoHugh BucklerNancy Ann HargreavesA 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.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsJames HallMargaret MannCharles MortonA 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.
- DirectorJoe MayStarsLars HansonDita ParloGustav FröhlichFollowing World War I, after a long imprisonment, two German prisoner-of-war soldiers escape from a Siberian lead-mine. Karl manages to reach Germany before Richard, and is sheltered by Anna, wife of Richard. While Richard is still on his homeward trek, Karl and Anna fall in love. And then Richard comes home.