Literal hundreds, or even thousands, of movies set during the Second World War

>literal hundreds, or even thousands, of movies set during the Second World War
>First World War gets almost no attention in comparison
Why is this?
Also, could you recommend me some good movies or TV series set during the First World War?

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Because trench warfare was fucking miserable and it's a war literally everybody hated and destroyed Europe.

WW2 destroyed Europe too, but it was an actual fight against good and evil (although nobody cared that Jews were getting gassed until it was convenient to demonized the Germans). People eat the general heroism and enormous sacrifices made during that war because it wasn't characterized by stalemates in which soldiers were literally penned in ditches for years.

There wasn't a lot of maneuver during WW1. You basically had some form aof trench warfare except at the start and end of the war. It lends itself to character studies of guys in the trenches and them having to decide to go rush machine gun nests knowing they'll be chopped to bit, all because the generals want to be able to say they were "attacking". It was a horrid, brutal war. Agree there should be more films about it.

>No clear villain like WWII
>Huge death counts
>Fucked up shit like chemical warfare and rats feasting on corpses in the trenches which were flooded with blood and guts mixed with mud (in other words, way more visually disturbing than WWII)
>Less dynamic war with a lot of down time spent sitting in trenches and periods of nothing happening
>Americans barely involved so no angle for Hollywood to really sell it outside Europe which is pointless because Europe is a secondary market at best


Basically that. The Germans, Austro-Hungarians, and Turks were technically the enemy of the Western allies but they weren't bad and didn't even instigate the war really. It's impossible to sell on patriotism and therefore has little marketable appeal to the masses of retards who aren't interested in history.

Watching people hunt for rats and dodge mustard gas is boring.

There have been quite a few films on the first world war. It's a bit more distant historically as well as the fact that the majority of the war was relatively stagnant.

WW2 was also the birth of the current (as of yet) American way of looking at themselves. The WW2 generation is held on a pedestal as what all Americans should aspire to and remember. American involvement in WW1 was substantially smaller and didn't have the same transformative effect.

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No shoah.

Pleb Choice: War Horse
Sup Forums choice: Stosstrupp
Crowd Pleaser: All Quiet On the Western Front
Patrician Choice: Westfront 1918: vier von der Infanterie

Burgers can't pretend they won it so they don't make films.

nominated for 0 academy awards

They cost more to make because all the surplus equipment is rusted to shit and nobody does modern reproductions, safety is also a big issue.

You can go down the rubber guns and CGI route but even then you're still worse off financially since studios already have warehouses full of rubber WW2 guns from previous WW2 movies.

the grand illusion is a good one

Downton Abbey, season 2.

I'm being serious.

More like why is there no good anything about the Korean War.

MASH

We Were Soldiers

MASH was about Vietnam

This is true, that could be quite lucrative.

>WW2 destroyed Europe too, but it was an actual fight against good and evil (although nobody cared that Jews were getting gassed until it was convenient to demonized the Germans).
rlymaksuthink huh???

these

World War I, physiological horror piece.

> The fear of being buried alive or lost in the blackness was a constant. On one nighttime march through a rain-filled trench, his squadron came across a soldier cemented into the mud and left behind by his own fellow infantrymen. “We made some vain efforts to pull him out,” Barthas recorded, “almost to the point of pulling his arms and legs out of their sockets. Seeing that we too were abandoning him, he begged us to put him out of his misery with a rifle shot …

No it wasn't.

Nope.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MASH_(film)

> We ware soldiers
> Korean War

Set in the Korean War but about Vietnam

Stay pleb

Both wars were very similar in that we didn't accomplish our official goals in either case. They were widely considered pointless, bloody conflicts.

No.

Wrong.

Wonder Woman is gonna be set on WW1

That's about as much of a WW1 movie as the first Captain America was about WW2.

The Life and Times of Colonel Blimp
>story spans both world wars
>filmed during WW2 in 1942-ish
>glorious technicolor
>Banned by Churchill
>Released with 50 minutes cut and linearized story
>Restored 40 years later and it's a masterpiece

Try to see the Criterion bluray if you can.

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because then the kikes can't pull the MUH JEWS MUH SHOAH

Did they shoot the poor guy?

nah uh!

>Why is this?

Because WWI on the Western Front is boring as fuck and Hollywood doesn't know that the Eastern Front existed.

This and the jews cant keep pushing holocaust for profit (no im not saying it didnt happen, just every other atrocity gets thrown under the holocaust bus. Why?)

It's been said even saving private Ryan couldn't show the true horrors of Omaha beach, with the effects that an mg42 has on a human body literally ripping it to shreds, no movie would be allowed to show it. And WW1 is basically the same. Men getting torn apart by machine guns and literally obliterated by artillery, any WW1 movie would be horribly depressing because that's what that war was. Just not something most people want to go see.

Why the heck doesn't Lawrence of Arabia ever come up in these threads?

Well uh, that was unexpected. Wrong pic, obviously.

brotherhood of war

I'd settle for some more eastern front WW2 movies. Enemy at the gates was cool and all but I'd like more.

Lost Batallion (2001) movie. Look it up, very good.

If you want a good documentary that is super kino, check the BBCs The First World War on YouTube.

>Marxist Jews were the victims of WWII
>Because Marxist Jews were the instigators of WWI
>Hollywood is run by Marxist Jews.

The Lost Battalion.

user, that doesn't even make sense

Because it was horrible and pointless.

M*A*S*H

Good. All war films are boring shit.

Just watch this.

youtube.com/watch?v=S-wSL4WqUws

This is good.

What's that WW1 Christmas movie? Saw it on TV and it was pretty good.

M8...

>Why is this?
Because then people would actually look into the reasons for WW2.

>Downton Abbey, season 2.
Doesn't that show have that one chick with the hairy arms? Forgot her name, does anyone know who I'm talking about?

Because it's overshadowed by WW2

>Why is this?
For Europeans, it undermines obedience to the state.

For Americans, we got there at the tail end of the fighting and we were never really into it (t. Associate Power)

Also WW1 was awful and pointless.

They have the promise coming out apparently some Armenian genocide movie that turks are already shitting on imdb

you gents care to address all the compelling reasons before lmao holohoax came up?

>Korea
>pointless
South Korea begs to differ.

Burgers made Sergeant York and Paths of Glory, they've already given it more attention than most European countries.

>Why

not wanting to make little of anyone else's suffering, i still have to say, you cannot exterminate homosexuality by shooting it to death

over half the genetic cleansing that took place was focused on one people, where its objective legitimately almost came to fruition.

plus, gypsies are still pickpocketing and don't give a shit about their holocaust

it's time to come back to the real world, user

Korean War is damn near in the same spot as WW1. Audiences don't wanna watch GI's commit atrocities when they aren't busy being frozen in the cold, just a depressing shit show.
>gramps was a paratrooper during Korea and did three tours
>never ate Asian food for the rest of his life
God damn he hated the Chinese

Most people that interact with mainland Chinese hate them too. Taiwanese are ok because they don't live in China.

It was. And holy shit was the ending sad and unexpected.

Pic related was also good

If a video game could be made about it and be somewhat successful then so can the movies.

(((They))) do not want to give any background to why WWII happened.

That video game is set in a fantasy ww1 where everyone had automatic weapons and gigantic tanks and blimps rained death and destruction everywhere.

Because dudes sitting in muddy trenches doing literally nothing for years on end does not make good entertainment.

such a based movie that isn't even artsy or particularly intelligent imo

not to say it's characters weren't brilliantly colorful.
it's an honest to god adventure/spectacle film.
i think we're just so used to content like superbad permeating the medium that a movie this "deep" is overwhelming.

do you agree user?

Yeah you are right.

Had the Germans backed off WW1 hadn't even happened.

Not only that, they even came for a second round, this time with an extra amount of atrocities.

I was more referring to the campaigns and how they actually presented different aspects of the war in a pretty edible way.

In fact the campaigns were very clearly referencing movies like The Lost Battalion, Gallipoli and so on, but still

He unironically said chinamen without even knowing it was a slur. He killed dozens and watched his buddies get killed by them so it was hard to blame him. That war also drove him insane so letting a vet call a china man a chinaman seems like a fair trade.
>god damn zipper heads

>>gramps was a paratrooper during Korea and did three tours
>>never ate Asian food for the rest of his life
>God damn he hated the Chinese

like haiku

Us Aussies have made some pretty great ones, you cunt
>Gallipoli (1981)
>The Water Diviner (2014), if only for Russel Crowe
>Beneath Hill 60 (2010)
All of these films really highlight the reason that less of these films are made, and it's because that time in history was a literal hell.

I didn't know chinamen was considered a slur either until I was 19. As far as slurs go it doesn't even sound derogatory, but whatever.

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>>He unironically said chinamen without even knowing it was a slur.
What, are we supposed to call them Persons of China now?

We're talking about a game that is somewhat successful user. Try again.

Possibly the silliest slur of all time.

Jews cant shut the fuck up about Nazi Germany.

Chinese, you mongoloid.

And if they're also male?

WWI was not less brutal than any other war, the industrial revolution really pussified men to have such rampant PTSD from wars going on.

i recommend Talvisota, its not set in WW1 but rather during the winter war between finland and the USSR (1939-1940) however i still recommend you give it a shot since the combat in the movie more closely resembles WW1 than anything since its about trench warfare. however its all in finnish and the subtitles are a bit sketchy

americans are brainwashed to fuck and back and need every war to have clear goodies and baddies

>Crowd Pleaser: All Quiet On the Western Front
Explain

American """"""""""education""""""""

The ptsd suffered during WW1 has been well covered. Shell shock as we all know they called it was literally from just sitting in a trench knowing a shell could vaporize you and you wouldn't even know it, that's some intense extended stress to take daily. Other than the wait to go over the trench and get shot in the face by a machine gun.

If you had any idea about history or read single book in your life you would know how wrong you are

No, but they did leave him six cans of corned beef to last him three days until the next, more equipped company would pass him and could pull him out. Unfortunately he couldn't get his hands out of the mud so he could eat that corned beef. Also, the other company never came.

Yes, watching a red army soldier talk like a posh Brit faggot sure was great

>He was jost a foot souljah..

Gtfo here nigger

The Steel Helmet

modern warfare (well the ww1 and 2 kind) is actually far far more psychologically damaging than ancient battles were

Because it was the war where troops were literally ordered to walk in formation across no-mans land and eat machine gun fire.

Doesn't make for a heroic war story, just a sad tale of the horrors of man.

>almost no movies set during the war of 1812

FIX THIS

>not one mention of Passchendaele
unironically kino

Because WW1 is possibly the most destructive and wasteful effect to ever occur in human history? It was a war that was not only pointless, but it set the stage for another war is Europe.
I think if you ask the question "Whats the worst thing that ever happened to civilized humanity", WW1 would your answer

It's more likely user has never seen MASH, maybe just a montage with M16s and helicopters.