Cuando Paul, de 17 años, se une al frente occidental en la Primera Guerra Mundial, su entusiasmo se derrumba rápidamente ante la dura realidad de la vida en las trincheras.
En lo más crudo de la Primera Guerra Mundial, dos jóvenes soldados británicos, Schofield y Blake reciben una misión aparentemente imposible. En una carrera contrarreloj, deberán atravesar el territorio enemigo para entregar un mensaje que evitará un mortífero ataque contra cientos de soldados, entre ellos el propio hermano de Blake.
Francia, 1914, durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. En Nochebuena, un extraordinario acontecimiento tiene lugar en la sangrienta tierra de nadie que los franceses y los escoceses disputan a los alemanes...
"They Shall Not Grow Old" rinde homenaje a los soldados que participaron en la I Guerra Mundial con motivo del primer centenario de su final en 1918. Empleando metraje original remasterizado y coloreado, testimonios reales y material inédito hasta el momento, el director Peter Jackson reflexiona sobre las secuelas mentales y espirituales ocasionadas por el conflicto, así como las graves secuelas que dejó tras de sí en una generación mermada por la ingente cantidad de víctimas que se cobró. El título es un extracto del poeta Laurence Binyon, escrito a principios de la guerra, bajo el título "A los caídos".
Fact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of World War I.
The Trench tells the story of a group of young British soldiers on the eve of the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916, the worst defeat in British military history. Against this ill-fated backdrop, the movie depicts the soldiers' experience as a mixture of boredom, fear, panic, and restlessness, confined to a trench on the front lines.
An American doughboy, stationed in France during the Great War, goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines and becomes a hero.
The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare—one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was secret struggle BENEATH the Western Front that combined daring engineering, technology and science. Few on the surface knew of the brave, claustrophobic and sometimes barbaric work of these tunnellers.
It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns – the war has begun.
During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial, Captain Hargreaves, finds out there is more to the case than meets the eye.
Drama-documentary recounting the events of the 1st July 1916 and the Battle of the Somme on the Western Front during the First World War. Told through the letters and journals of soldiers who were there.
World War I, October 1918. The more than 500 men of the 77th Infantry Division of the United States Army, who have been recruited in New York City and trained in Yaphank, are sent to France, to help break down the German defenses located in the Argonne forest…
Wounded and left for dead, a British soldier in the midst of the First World War embarks on a daring escape from a booby-trapped German dugout.
Relying on newly discovered archival footage, memoirs from the fallen, and expert commentary from scholars, this documentary tells the story of World War I from the American perspective: Its ace pilots, mine-laying Sailors, heroic doughboys, Harlem Hell Fighters, and courageous nurses.
A few hours in the life of two young soldiers during WWI.
Produced by the Fox Movietone News arm of Fox Film Corporation and based on the book by Lawrence Stallings, this expanded newsreel, using stock-and-archive footage, tells the story of World War I from inception to conclusion. Alternating with scenes of trench warfare and intimate glimpses of European royalty at home, and scenes of conflict at sea combined with sequences of films from the secret archives of many of the involved nations.