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Marking the centenary of the First World War, internationally renowned director Peter Jackson uses the voices of the veterans combined with original archival footage to bring to life the reality of war on the front line for a whole new generation. Footage has been colorized and transformed with modern production techniques to present never-before-seen detail.
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Criterion collection volume 538
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Based on a true story which occurred in the French Army in 1916. When a regiment fails in its attempt to attack a German position, three men stand trial for cowardice.
5) War horse
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"Young Albert enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. Albert's hopeful journey takes him out of England and across Europe as the war rages on"--www.imdb.com.
6) War requiem
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British cinema's enfant terrible teams with his muse Tilda Swinton and Laurence Olivier, for a spectacular and moving interpretation of composer Benjamin Britten's 1961 orchestral masterpiece.
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Missing Presumed Dead is Gerard Reed's personal journey to discover what became of Heinrich Bornkamp, a German soldier of World War One, whose wallet he discovered in a collector's shop window in Adelaide, South Australia. Gerard felt connected to past lives as the wallet revealed its secrets, telling a story of loss and love thwarted by war. Bornkamp's wallet was a link to a loss in Gerard's family as his great uncle Pat Murphy was 'missing presumed...
10) The great war
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"During the last days of the Great War, a group of U.S. soldiers are sent behind enemy lines to rescue a lost platoon."--www.imdb.com.
12) 37 days
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This three-part political thriller follows the catastrophic chain of events leading up to World War I from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914 to Britain's declaration of war on Germany 37 days later. This tense and gripping mini-series set amongst the corridors of power in Whitehall and Berlin tracks the unfolding crisis through the eyes of leading politicians and civil servants struggling to prevent the world's first global...
14) Trench 11
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When a small group of Allied soldiers discover a highly contagious biological weapon created by German forces in WWI, it becomes a fight for survival as they try to contain it.
15) Many wars ago
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In Northern Italy, WWI has turned into a bloody stalemate. Bogged down in their trenches on a barren highland, the men of an Italian infantry division have been given one objective: retake a commanding height from the enemy. Unfortunately, the tactical ingenuity of general Leone, the unpopular division commander, consists of supplementing frontal attacks against machine-guns with medieval fighting schemes. His dispirited troops must be prodded with...
18) Wonder Woman
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"When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, Diana, an Amazonian warrior in training, leaves home to fight a war, discovering her full powers and true destiny"--From www.imdb.com.
19) 1917
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"April 6th, 1917. As a regiment assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap"--From www.imdb.com.
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The stirring account of Canada's heroic effort in World War I is told through the words of ordinary soldiers, leaders and civilians. In Sam's Army, Canada was led to war by a bigoted, ignorant, self-obsessed Minister of Militia, Sam Hughes, who may well have been clinically insane, but the importance of Canada's contribution in that war owes a great deal to him. The Battle of Vimy Ridge, parts I and II recreates one of the greatest battles in Canadian...
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