The original and best adaptation of Hemingway's sweeping WW1 novel. Cooper positively smoulders as the US ambulanceman who falls in love with an English nurse and finally goes AWOL to join her only to find, tragically, that he may be too late. Oscars for Best Cinematography and Sound. find out more...

Mathilde and Manech are teenagers in love, unfortunately their feelings have find out more...

David Lean's epic romance set against the turbulant backdrop of the Russian revolution. One man's struggle for moral political and personal survival amidst the complex web of intrigue and tangled loyalties that accompanied the fall of the Tsar.

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The story of Lafayette Escadrille, a group of mainly American volunteers, who joined the French WW1 airforce to fight the dastardly Hun. Some stunning aerial dogfights are the highlight. find out more...

Howard Hughes' first movie, and what an epic money sucker it was too. Three friends, two English and one German, are conscripted into WWI as fighter pilots and must make the choice between their patriotic duty and their loyalty to one another. Some amazing aerial scenes and Jean Harlow's first starring role are amongst the highlights. find out more...

Tearjerking drama based on the young Ernest Hemingway's real life romance, the inspiration for his classic "A Farewell To Arms". As an 18-year-old soldier in WW1, love is the last thing on his mind, until a near-fatal injury puts his life in the hands of a beautiful, older nurse. Superb performances. find out more...

Three brothers growing up in the wilds of Montana seem to have an unbreakable bond until Samuel, the youngest, returns from college with the beautiful Susanna. The eldest, Alfred, falls for his brother's fiance, and things get worse when he discovers a growing passion between Susanna and the wild and willful Tristan. As the brothers head off for Europe for war, suspicion and jealousy threaten to tear them apart. A genuine epic, charting the progress of the family's lives, loves and tragedies thr find out more...

This is a bog standard period drama with some very nice and historically accurate but all too clean costuming. Set during the first world war and based on the biography of Vera Brittain, the story is one of tears, drama and determination. Hits all the right but all too regular notes, looks a lot like it was shot for TV...

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The story of Bruno Stachel, a cold, ambitious German combat pilot in World War I. As brave as he is ruthless, he excels in combat, and wins the highest possible award, ‘The Blue Max', becoming a national hero in the process. The Blue Max is among the best aerial adventure films with outstanding photography, spectacular dogfights and a dramatic score. find out more...

Based on David Low's cartoon character, Major General Clive Wynne-Candy, VC, we back-track over his life, drawing us into sympathy with the prime virtues of honour and chivalry which have transformed him from dashing young spark of the 1890s into crusty old buffer of World War II. Roger Livesey gives us not just a great performance, but a man's whole life, losing his only love (Deborah Kerr) to the German officer (Walbrook) with whom he fought a duel in pre-WWI Berlin, then becoming the latter's find out more...