Is there a definitive WW1 Movie?

We all WW2 has Saving Private Ryan and the Vietnam War has films like Full Metal Jacket or Platoon. However, is there any film in the same vein that comes to mind for WW1? If not could you guys see a WW1 film being produced in the near future?

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Gallipoli
Breaker Morant

I'd love to see a big budget ww1 film. The lost battalion and all quiet on the western front are pretty good though. It's a very white male cis scum period though, could be problematic during current year.

dunkirk

Dunkirk isn't a World War 1 movie, dipshit.

Breaker Morant is the Boer War.

Paths
Of
Glory

WW1 lacks the tidy good guys vs. bad guys narrative that WW2 invites thus making it a less popular subject

obvious answer would be paths of glory, passchendale, galippolipoli, all quiet on the western front but i dont think theres been kino yet. ww1 movies have yet to reach their height

paths of glory is superb

New Zealand (and probably Australia) have made some but I can't remember the names

Lawrence of Arabia is the best WW1 movie
All Quiet on the Western Front or Paths of Glory are the definitive WW1 movies though

Movie no. But Blackadder Goes Forth does it justice.

The problem is making a compelling story. WW1 was a stalemate and absolute meat grinder. Seeing British soldiers getting mowed down by the thousands at the Somme isn't going to appeal to most audiences

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I would tend to agree with this. There are several good ones, but paths of glory, all quiet and the italian la grande guerra are probably the ones that are describing the horrors of the trench warfare the most.

Merry christmas/Joyeux noel is pretty good too.

Wonder Woman

Film with a major sequence focusing on Vimy Ridge.

>The objective of the Canadian Corps was to take control of the German-held high ground along an escarpment at the northernmost end of the Arras Offensive. This would ensure that the southern flank could advance without suffering German enfilade fire. Supported by a creeping barrage, the Canadian Corps captured most of the ridge during the first day of the attack. The village of Thélus fell during the second day of the attack, as did the crest of the ridge, once the Canadian Corps overcame a salient against considerable German resistance. The final objective, a fortified knoll located outside the village of Givenchy-en-Gohelle, fell to the Canadian Corps on 12 April. The German forces then retreated to the Oppy–Méricourt line. Historians attribute the success of the Canadian Corps in capturing the ridge to a mixture of technical and tactical innovation, meticulous planning, powerful artillery support and extensive training, as well as the failure of the German 6th Army properly to apply the new German defensive doctrine.

Passchendaele was nice
Joyeux Noel as well
Same goes for Der rote Baron

People recommended me The Water Diviner but it was boring

Der rote baron was pretty shit though. Super cheesy characters, muh jews, cliches all around. Blue Max is better imo.

Blue Max, though not entirely realistic, is very good.

Uomini Contro and Lawrence of Arabia

1950s And Quiet Flows the Don is more about russian civil war but it deals with the WWI first. Cavalry attacks in the movies are pure kino.

>watching recent crappy WW1 b movies
The 20s and 30s had a shitton of pure fucking WW1 kinos

Not definitive, but Paths of Glory is excellent

>saving private ryan
no, just no

Well don't hold out on us mate!

this

Would make for a fantastic horror movie though. Sadly, it will never be made.

War horse

All Quiet on the Western Front or Westfront 1918

>passchendale

Someday a real rake will come and pile up all these leafs in the yard

All Quiet on the Western Front basically created the modern perception of WW1 and the focus on the Western Front of the war. I wouldn't even say Saving Private Ryan is a "definitive" WW2 film because it only depicts a small part of one theater. The experience of a war like WW2 or WW1 is just too broad in scope to capture in one film. There ARE definitive films for a certain experience in that war, however. Lawrence of Arabia, for one, encapsulates the experience of the Arabs in their campaigns. Like I said earlier, All Quiet on the Western Front captures the Western Front. Doctor Zhivago captures much of the action in Russia during the time, the scenes on the Eastern Front are kino, as well as the civil war scenes. Hell, even Bridge on the River Kwai is the definitive film of the war in Southeast Asia. There are plenty of other examples I'm not mentioning, but the basic gist of what I'm saying is that while the Vietnam War was a small, localized conflict, the World Wars had a diverse range of theaters and with troops performing intense combat in many diverse roles, simply far too many experiences to have a "definitive" film.

>Implying Allo Allo isn't the definitive WW2 kinography

>tfw no kino about Verdun

>good guys vs. bad guys narrative
allies dindu nuffin

There are other good ones but none come close to Lawrence of Arabia

underrated tv show desu
George Lucas did it again

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Why do they call him "awrence"?

This, except Paths of Glory.

Arabs can't speak real words

But they say "al" so they can clearly say the l for lawrence

People often forget it's a WWl because /his/lets think the whole war took place on the stalemate in France.

They can't say l in the beginning of words, like Spanish speakers and s.

its aurens. aurum is gold in latin. golden boy.

Both of these make sense. I don't know who to believe

All Quiet On The Western Front (1930) and Paths Of Glory.

France and Britain did plenty wrong. The US, Canada, Australia and NZ unironically dindu nuffin. (Except for Eisenhower)

Also this

Just watched gallipoli last week

Holy shit it fucking JUSTed me. Pure kino that is probably the closest description to ww1 on screen

>Holy shit it fucking JUSTed me

why? that archy kid's too dumb to live

Great movie, also check out beneath hill 60 and joyeux noel. All grest ww1 movies.
All quiet on the western front is another oldy like paths of glory, definitive for sure.
Must see

Beneath hill 60 is an aussie film. One of my favs

Beneath Hill 60 is a recent one from Australia. Actually quite good, though the romance plotline is a bit tedious.

The ending scene hits pretty damn hard too.

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I didn't think it was out of place or tedious. It's just showing his life immediately before signing up but in flashbacks, it builds his character.

>wibble

Would like a film (or segment of a film) that has a similar tone to this video.

youtu.be/k4Pd527GN48

"Berge in Flammen" is an excellent German movie from '31. It's about alpine warfare...

saving private ryan

probably saving private ryan or jarhead

>ww1 movie
>it aint me starts playing
every time