World War I Movies

This early public information film puts out an appeal for more women to take up munitions work - showing training centres, opportunities for work in...

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

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

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...

Recruits of Lord Kitchener's 'New Army' parade on Christmas morning.

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

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

Concerns the First World War. The images are authentic and made by the film service of the French army. Shots showing the proceedings of the war in...

The absolute art of a Sales Pitch in a perfect example (made for a History project).

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...

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.

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

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

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

French soldiers injured in WWI are re-educated to learn new trades.

An aviator heads out in his fighter plane to fight in WWI, and his girlfriend watches as he leaves and waits for his return.

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,...