World War I Movies

Seven rolls of raw and strong recordings of different military forces during the first world war.

From growing potatoes in Green Park, London, to transforming rabbit crates into seed boxes – just a couple of the many ingenious ways of...

1988 CBC docudrama on Canada's role in WW1. Terence McKenna tours the Battlefields of Ypres, the Somme, Vimy Ridge and Paschendaele. Actors portray...

From the beginning to the end, this is what happened during WW1. Told by genuine oral testimony recorded and saved by the Imperial War Museum....

A war. Two friends. Chaos will reign.

A young filmmaker is commissioned to write a documentary about the First World War. He tries to find a way to tell the story of the war. What is to...

Part of the documentary series looking at the course of the First World War. This volume examines the events of 1917, when the Allies launched...

Soldiers representing South Africa and New Zealand billeted in London get stuck in during a rugby fixture in Richmond Park.

This intriguing and beautifully-shot newsreel features sea-faring heroes, feisty females and a generous lick of paint for a Mississippi steamship.

Public anxiety about war from the air is all too real for the people of Ramsgate in this newsreel footage of the aftermath of a Zeppelin raid.

Violet Asquith, daughter of the Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, arrives at church to marry Maurice Bonham Carter.

Viktoria, the figure at the top of the Siegesäule in Berlin, asks Michel to raise money for the war effort. Michel takes a trip through Germany,...

A short showing the packing and (fictionalized) delivery of Christmas presents to soldiers on the German front.

German propaganda film about the importance of buying war bonds.

A holiday of sorts for Stockport army reserves, fitting high-jinks between drills over two weeks of summer training in South Wales.

A documentary created by the National Catholic War Council and Famous Players-Lasky Corp.