wwi movies
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A set of WWI movies. Be warned that some descriptions do have spoilers.TRANSCRIPT
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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
37 Days, BBC TV Series - Episode 2 (2014)
July 28, 1914: last run-up to WWI
Austria bombs Belgrade
July 28, 1914: WWI begins with an Austrian invasion of Serbia
37 Days, BBC TV Series - Episode 2 (2014)
Aug 1, 1914: German intervention begins - first attack in Luxembourg
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37 Days, BBC TV Series - Episode 3 (2014)
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
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Saint George Slays the Dragon/ (2008)
Aug 15-24, 1914 - Battle of Cer: first Allied victory
Rasputin (1996)
r. 1894 - 1918 - Tsar Nicholas II
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
Hitler: the Rise of Evil - Part 1 (2003)
Oct - Nov 1914: First Battle of Ypres
Oct 29, 1914: Hitler arrives in Ypres, Belgium
Anzacs, TV Series - Episode 1 (1985)
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
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Joyeux Noel (2005)
Dec 1914: Christmas Truce
The Officers Ward/La chambre des officiers (2001)
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
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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
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All the Kings Men (1999)
Apr 1915 - Jan 1916 - Gallipoli (Turkey): the Sandringham Company mysterious disappears
Anzacs, TV Series - Episode 1 (1985)
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)
Apr 1915 - Jan 1916 - Battle of Gallipoli (Turkey)
Aug 1915 - Battle of Hill 60, the last major assault of the battle
Anzacs, TV Series - Episode 1 (1985)
Apr 1915 - Jan 1916 - Battle of Gallipoli (Turkey)
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
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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
Anzacs, TV Series - Episode 1 (1985)
Apr 1915 - Jan 1916 - Battle of Gallipoli (Turkey)
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.
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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
The World Wars, Episode 1 - Trial By Fire (2014)
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.
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Anzacs, TV Series - Episode 2 (1985)
Apr 1916: ANZACs arrive in France
The Officers Ward/La chambre des officiers (2001)
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
Anzacs, TV Series - Episode 2 (1985)
Jun? 1916: Haig makes preparations for Somme
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The Trench (1999)
Jul - Nov 1916 - Battle of Somme
Anzacs, TV Series - Episode 2 (1985)
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)
Jul - Nov 1916 - Battle of Somme
Aug 1916 - Battle of the Somme
The Young Indiana Jones - S02E03 (1992)
Aug 1916 - Germany: Indiana escapes a German POW camp with de Gaulle
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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
The Young Indiana Jones - S01E05 (1992)
Sept 1916 - Battle of Verdun
Hitler: the Rise of Evil - Part 1 (2003)
Jul - Nov 1916 - Battle of Somme
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
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Rasputin (1996)
r. 1894 - 1918 - Tsar Nicholas II
Dec 30, 1916: Rasputin is killed
The Young Indiana Jones - S01E07 (1992)
Jan 1917 - Congo:
The Young Indiana Jones - S01E07 (1992)
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)
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Hitler: the Rise of Evil - Part 1 (2003)
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
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Jun 12, 1917: Paul and the other students finally arrive on the front
June 19, 1917: Kemmerick is shot and amputated ; Kemmerick dies
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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
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
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.
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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.
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
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
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
Oct? 1917: Joe is hit by a mortar and taken to a hospital, where doctors assume he is brain dead
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All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
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)
r. 1894 - 1918 - Tsar Nicholas II
Oct 26, 1917: Bolsheviks capture the Winter Palace
The World Wars, Episode 1 - Trial By Fire (2014)
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
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Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
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
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Reds, Part 2 (1981)
April 1918: Reed arrives back in the US
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
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.
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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
Hitler: the Rise of Evil - Part 1 (2003)
Jul 1918: Hitler serving as a messenger in Belgium
Rasputin (1996)
r. 1894 - 1918 - Tsar Nicholas II
Jul 16, 1918: the Tsar and his family are murdered
Raspoutine (2011)
r. 1894 - 1918 - Tsar Nicholas II
Jul 16, 1918: the Tsar and his family are murdered
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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.
The World Wars, Episode 1 - Trial By Fire (2014)
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
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Hitler: the Rise of Evil - Part 1 (2003)
Oct 13, 1918: Hitler suffers from a mustard gas attack
The World Wars, Episode 1 - Trial By Fire (2014)
Oct 13, 1918: Hitler suffers from a mustard gas attack
The World Wars, Episode 1 - Trial By Fire (2014)
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
Hitler: the Rise of Evil - Part 1 (2003)
Nov 11, 1918: Hitler is hospitalized when he hears news of the armistice
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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