WWI
see all genres ›Not just the first truly global war but the first major conflict of the motion picture era, World War I was thus more widely and graphically recorded than any such event before it. The legacy of heroism and trauma it left behind fueled many a dramatic narrative (including a spate of popular films with pacifist themes that nonetheless failed to prevent the outbreak of WWII).
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Loving Couples
For her feature film directing debut, actress Mai Zetterling turned to Agnes von Krusenstjerna's controversial masterpiece of Swedish feminist literature, "The Misses von Pahlen," an intense and personal seven-part novel that has been likened to the great works of D.H. Lawrence. As three pregnant...Watch Movie
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The Red Baron
Europe, 1916. Baron Manfred von Richthofen (Matthias Schweighöfer) is, at the age of just 24, the crack pilot of the German aerial combat forces: a legend in his own time, a hero at home and a man both feared and respected by the enemy. Von Richthofen and his fellow officers see their duels in...Watch Movie
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Villa des roses
When Louise's husband dies on the Titanic trying to emigrate, she must leave their son with her aging father to set up a new life for her family in Paris. Working as a maid in the run-down Villa des Rosas, she falls in love with a painter, but their relationship proves tumultuous on the eve of...Watch Movie
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Watchers of the Sky
With his provocative question, "why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of an individual?" Raphael Lemkin changed the course of history. An extraordinary testament to one man's perseverance, the Sundance award-winning film WATCHERS OF THE SKY examines...Watch Movie
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Behind the Door
Writer Gouverneur Morris's bizarre tale unfolds in a series of disquieting flashbacks that serve to continually ratchet up suspense and foreboding. Producer Thomas H. Ince and director Irvin Willat showed daring and imagination in their adaptation of the sensational material. U-boat captain...Watch Movie
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Station Drama
STATION DRAMA is a silent, black-and-white Super-8 film from RIGHT HAND SHADE, the fourth and final section of my twelve film series TALES OF THE FORGOTTEN FUTURE. This section explores via collage cutouts, thematics related to the genres of the bio-pic, home movies and the actuality film. It...Watch Movie
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Huns and Hyphens
Larry Semon stars in this wartime slapstick comedy. The ruckus bar where he waits tables seems patriotic enough but it turns out the owner and several of his customers are German spies. In one of his first supporting roles, Stan Laurel makes for a distinctly ineffectual...Watch Movie
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The Little American
Karl, a German living in America, returns to Germany at the outbreak of World War I to fight for his country, leaving his American sweetheart, Angela, behind. A rival for Angela's affections, Jules, returns to his native France to fight. When Angela goes to France to care for...Watch Movie
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Soldier's Home
Harold Krebs (Richard Backus) went off to fight World War I, “the war to end all wars.” Then he came home and found himself wishing it had never ended. To Ernest Hemingway, the hardest part of the war was coming home. Harold finds he doesn't fit in anymore. He's outgrown his old life and now...Watch Movie
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The Unbeliever
This was perhaps the last Thomas Edison film ever to be released and features Erich von Stroheim as a German army officer who enjoys killing old women and children. He would reprise and modify this role in Jean Renoir's GRAND ILLUSION. Besides the wartime propagandistic clichés, the film offers a...Watch Movie
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In the Hands of the Enemy
A story of a woman spy, her son and a firing squad draws its analogies from the world war; full of intense situations and graphic action. Just 15 months after the outbreak of war in Europe, it was still very early for an American film to be produced on the subject for release...Watch Movie
