War Movies

Westfront 1918 (1930)

Westfront 1918 (1930)

Westfront 1918 (1930)
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97

A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the…

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Genre: Drama, War
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
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133

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh…

Genre: Drama, War
Storm Over Asia (1928)

Storm Over Asia (1928)

Storm Over Asia (1928)
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127

In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a European capitalist fur trader. Ostracized from the trading post, he…

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Genre: Drama, History, War
Verdun: Visions of History (1928)

Verdun: Visions of History (1928)

Verdun: Visions of History (1928)
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151

A dramatized re-enactment and documentary of the Battle of Verdun as seen by both French and German soldiers, shot on site of the actual battle.

Noah’s Ark (1928)

Noah’s Ark (1928)

Noah’s Ark (1928)
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135

The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.

Genre: Drama, War
Daredevils (1928)

Daredevils (1928)

Daredevils (1928)
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135

Leonard Buczkowski’s feature debut in 1928 is the first Polish film super-production – made with the participation of many military formations, with innovative battle scenes, epoch-making weapons and the latest…

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Genre: Drama, War
Four Sons (1928)

Four Sons (1928)

Four Sons (1928)
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96

A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow’s sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany’s eventual opponent. Preserved by the Academy Film…

Genre: Drama, War
The Last Command (1928)

The Last Command (1928)

The Last Command (1928)
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88

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands (1927)

The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands (1927)

The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands (1927)
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106

The film focuses on the naval warfare around the Battle of Coronel and Battle of the Falkland Islands during the First World War. It was the last in a successful…

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Genre: Drama, War
Wings (1927)

Wings (1927)

Wings (1927)
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144

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I….

Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Napoleon (1927)

Napoleon (1927)

Napoleon (1927)
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330

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican’s career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French…

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Genre: Drama, History, War
The General (1926)

The General (1926)

The General (1926)
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79

During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray’s beloved locomotive, ‘The General’—with Johnnie’s lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to…

Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Battleship Potemkin (1925)
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75

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the…

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Genre: Drama, History, War
The Big Parade (1925)

The Big Parade (1925)

The Big Parade (1925)
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151

The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army’s Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
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156

Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Behind the Door (1919)

Behind the Door (1919)

Behind the Door (1919)
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70

Oscar Krug is looked upon with suspicion by his neighbors because of his German name. When the US is drawn into the war with Germany, he enlists and travels the…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
J’accuse (1919)

J’accuse (1919)

J’accuse (1919)
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165

The 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…

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Genre: Drama, War
The Light of Victory (1919)

The Light of Victory (1919)

The Light of Victory (1919)
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50

U.S. Navy Lieutenant George Blenton becomes drunk at an official reception, and his fiancee, Jane Ravenslee, the captain’s daughter, breaks their engagement. After war is declared, George, entrusted with a…

Genre: Drama, War
Shoulder Arms (1918)

Shoulder Arms (1918)

Shoulder Arms (1918)
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36

An American doughboy, stationed in France during the Great War, goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines and becomes a hero.

Genre: Comedy, War
The Little American (1917)

The Little American (1917)

The Little American (1917)
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63

A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Old Heidelberg (1915)

Old Heidelberg (1915)

Old Heidelberg (1915)
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50

Karl Heinrich is the heir to the throne of the small European principality of Rutania, but he’s a lonely child, not allowed to play with other children and knowing little…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
The Coward (1915)

The Coward (1915)

The Coward (1915)
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69

Set during the American Civil War, Keenan stars as a Virginia colonel and Charles Ray as his weak-willed son. The son is forced, at gunpoint, by his father to enlist…

Genre: Drama, History, War
The Captive (1915)

The Captive (1915)

The Captive (1915)
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50

Set during the Balkan Wars, The Captive tells the story of Sonia, a young woman living in Montenegro and left to care for her younger brother Milos and the family…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
The Birth of a Nation (1915)

The Birth of a Nation (1915)

The Birth of a Nation (1915)
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195

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era…

Genre: Drama, History, War
The Drummer of the 8th (1913)

The Drummer of the 8th (1913)

The Drummer of the 8th (1913)
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28

When the Civil War begins, young Billy runs away from home to enlist in the Northern Army as a drummer; he’s wounded in battle and taken prisoner. He manages to…

Genre: Drama, History, War