8.Kompagnie,
Infanterie - Regiment Nr. 459

Here's our recommended Great War Movie list

There were so many movies that were made after the Great War. Some show the Great War to be romantic and still others are against all wars. They all have a common theme that we call the Great War.

	The Big Parade   (1927) **** B/W Silent Movie—Approximate Running Time: 2 Hours, 22 Minutes: The Big Parade is the first realistic war drama and one of the most important films ever made. It has spectacle, romance and comedy. But its true greatness may lie in its sharp delineation of emotions interspersed through a simple plot that recounts the experiences of a World War I soldier in France (John Gilbert
	CARRY ON, SERGEANT   (1928)**** B/W, Silent Movie  The Movie Length is 1 hour & 40 minutes long. The director is Bruce Bairnsfather. The film centers around a Canadian Scotch Infantry unit. Great trench scenes for a movie done without a script.
	Unternehmen Michael   (1937) **** German, B/W, [ultra rare film]. This film originally premiered at the Nuremberg Rally in 1937. The film was directed by Karl Ritter. Who was later known for making Nazi propaganda films. This is an awesome WWI film showing the German perspective.
	The Fighting 69th   (1940) **** Approx 1 hour 30 minutes long, B & W. Tough cocky Jerry Pluckett (James Cagney) likes nothing better than a good fight. Now he’s got one. He’s with “The Fighting 69th”, the celebrated Irish-American Regiment that’s gone “over there” and into the trenches of World War One. As shells scream overhead and friends jerk upright and then slump silently, Jerry discovers something he never knew; stark, incapacitating fear.
	J’ACCUSE   (1937) **** 125 Minutes, B/W, in French with English subtitles [ A very nice copy]. A research scientist who survived the carnage of WW1 and swore to dedicate his life to ending war, a burden which drives him to madness. When he discovers his work is being exploited by the military/industrial establishment, he summons up the ghosts of the war dead, to bring the world to its senses.
	GRAND ILLUSION   (1938) **** 111 Minutes, B/W, French with English subtitles. Based on a true story of the escape of French soldiers from a German POW camp during WW1. This anti-war classic is more than just a war film. Grand Illusion sheds harsh light on the crumbling social and political values of Europe during the Great War. Erich von Stroheim is magnificent as the compassionate German general and gentleman in what appears to be the decay of the “gentleman’s war.”
	A Very Long Engagement   (2004) **** Starring Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Audrey Tautou, based on the acclaimed novel by Sebastien Japrisot. The film is set in France near the end of World War I in the deadly trenches of the Somme, in the gilded Parisian halls of power, and in the modest home of an indomitable provincial girl. It tells the story of this young woman's relentless and sometimes comic search for her fiancée, who has disappeared. He is one of five French soldiers believed to have been court-martialed under mysterious circumstances and pushed out of an allied trench into an almost-certain death in no-man's land.
	Capitaine Conan   (1996) **** Color, in French with English subtitles. A brilliantly photographed story of a dedicated French career officer and his 50 irregulars that serve under his command who participate in trench raids.