WWI in book and film

[commissarmoody]

Hello hello!
I was wondering if people can give me a list of movies/dvds about the great war and or good books for refence's.

[itchy]

movies.
all quiet on the western front (the original)
trench
oh what a lovely war
blue max
lawrence of arabia
gallipolli
breaker morant

depends which area you are most interested in really 

[joroas]

DVDs

Real War Footage

The Great War
World War 1 In Colour

Land War Movies

All Quiet on the Western Front
Gallipolli
Joyeux Noel
Lawrence of Arabia
Light Horsemen
Paths of Glory
The Trench


Aerial War Movies
Blue Max
Flyboys

[joroas]

Breaker Morant is the Boer War...............

[itchy]

true but i like it ....   and more ashamed to say forgot paths of glory ....

[Helen]

A very Long Engagement,

Quiet Flows the Don,

Helen

[joroas]

Paths of Glory, watched it when a kid and still the best WWI film ever.........  The book is better, though..........

[aircav]

The lost Battalion

Young Indy Tv series


Keith 

[Will Bailie]

Recent Canadian movie - Passchendaele

[Plynkes]

Hmm. What else we got that ain't been mentioned?

The African Queen.
Shout at the Devil.
Sgt. York.
Aces High.
Legends of the Fall has a section set on the Western Front as I recall, but it is mostly in Montana or somewhere.
Brown on Resolution, which was remade as Sailor of the King (with the setting shifted to WWII).


There's the play Journey's End by R.C. Sheriff (who also wrote the screenplays for The Four Feathers and The Dam Busters), which I think may have been made into a movie or TV play. Aces High is bascially Journey's End, but with the setting changed from a front line trench to a fighter squadron, and with aerial combat sequences inserted.

All the King's Men was a TV play about the British at Gallipoli, starring David Jason of Only Fools and Horses and Inspector Frost fame. It's available on DVD.

A TV film with a similar tone is My Boy Jack, about Rudyard Kipling's son, who served in the Irish Guards, with the Harry Potter chap in the title role.

I saw the TV series ANZACs when it was originally on, but not since. I don't remember much about it, but I thought it was good at the time. My judgement may be flawed there, though, as it was a much younger and more stupid me that saw it.


As far as books go, I'm quite partial to Goodbye To All That, the memoirs of Robert Graves (poet and chap that wrote I, Claudius).

[Plynkes]

If you like comics, then the classic 70s/80s British strip Charley's War is the process of being reprinted in hardback book form. There are five or so volumes available at the moment. They release one new one a year, and it looks like they're going to do the whole thing. Certainly no sign of it stopping.


It was quite thoughtful, poignant and reflective, not at all like other kids' war comics of the time. I lapped it up as a nipper, and can probably trace my interest in the Great War to it (along with the medals I inherited from an elderly relative, and always wondered about).

The UK Amazon site sells the books.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=charley%27s+war

[Le matou rouge]

You can't go wrong with this books, they are essentials  

German accounts :
Storm of Steel (In Stahlgewittern) by Ernst Jünger
All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues) by Erich Maria Remarque

French accounts
The Men of 1914 (Ceux de 14) by Maurice Genevoix
Under Fire* (le feu) by Henry Barbusse

And for the record, a few others movies :
Life and Nothing But (la vie et rien d'autres) & Capitaine Conan (or Captain Conan ?)  by Bertrand Tavernier
The Officers' Ward (La chambre des officiers) by François Dupeyron

meow,
Matt


*I just find the book is freely available in english here :

http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/wwone/underfire.html

You could prefer to skip the first chapter though 

[Poliorketes]

Movie:
Berge in Flammen (german) - about the war in tyrol
Westfront 1918 (german)

[Bugsda]

Covenent With Death by John Harris. Fantastic book must've read it five times since I was a kid.

[Calimero]

La Vie et rien d’Autre (a film) and  Ceux de 14 (a book) are both excellent. I don’t know if English translation are available though.

I own the book Ceux de 14 and I read it at least 3 time now… it’s a war recollection of a French Lieutenant de Réserve and cover the earlier months of the war in 1914.