World War I Movies

At the end of August 1914 Leuven became the victim of blind rage war. Virtually the entire city center was systematically destroyed by the Germans....

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

This educational film was compiled from original footage from 1917. It shows, among other things, guns, troop transports in the port of Libau and a...

John Henry Balch was a Pharmacist's Mate attached to the 3rd Battalion 6th Marine Regiment when his unit entered the Belleau Wood. His dedication to...

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

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,...

Chain of pictures and moving images about the origination of the annual Yser pilgrimage from 1920 to 1929.

A response in music and film to the conflict that launched a century of war, and a celebration of the power of art to keep us sane and offer us...

Poignant scenes of Allied troops enjoying their Yuletide rations at the first Christmas of WWI.

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

Short documentary

From the beginning to the end, this is what happened during WW1. Told by genuine oral testimony recorded and saved by the Imperial War Museum....

Gevaërt and his daughter Marie show the latter's fiancé, Sergeant Tressignies, the system that opens or closes the swing bridge...

In northern Finland in the fall of 1916, Saima Niva rescues a man drifting in the river, who turns out to be a German lieutenant Braun. Braun and his...

Documentary on American troops in France in the First World War.