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101) A Horseman Riding By
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Based on the novel by R.F. Delderfield, this follows the fortunes of Paul Craddock, a former soldier who purchases a run-down Devon estate. Set between the Boer War and the outbreak of World War I, the miniseries depicts the end of an era, as England moves into the modern age.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
When an Allied pilot crashes on the secluded island of Themyscira and tells of war in the outside world, Amazon warrior princess Diana leaves her home to fight evil and becomes Wonder Woman in the process; Wonder Woman goes to battle against two new nemeses: Max Lord and the Cheetah.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
After a shell leaves his body mangled on the final day of World War I, young Joe Bonham lies trapped in a hospital bed. He is a fully conscious quadruple amputee who cannot speak, hear or see. He is left to wander within his own mind and goes between his harsh reality and memories of a happier life long gone. Delve into the mind of a man lost somewhere on the edges of sanity and insanity, life and death.
104) The king's man
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
The world on the brink of World War I is being manipulated by a cabal of political villains strategically placed to create conflict. One British lord and his son create a network of domestic worker spies in hopes of undermining the efforts, taking on the likes of Rasputin and Mata Hari with the crown's silent support. When the war happens anyway and takes the life of one of these men, the other must rise above his grief to bring an end to years of...
105) Ithaca
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his four-year-old brother, Ulysses. And so it is that as Spring turns to Summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain, and death, to the good people of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will grapple with one...
106) King of Hearts
Pub. Date
[1990]
Description
A Scottish World War I soldier is sent to dismantle explosives in a French village, which he finds abandoned except for the inmates of an insane asylum. In the midst of the war's madness, this village ironically becomes the most rational and delightful place to be
108) Private peaceful
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"The story of the unbreakable bond between two brothers from their childhood in rural Devon to the battlefields of the First World War. When young Tommo Peaceful ... volunteers to fight, his protective older brother Charles ... follows him to Flanders. But it is here that both experience the brutal nature of war, far removed from family life and their rivalry for the love of Molly Monks"--Container.
109) Private peaceful
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Private Peaceful details the gritty rural lives and loves of Tommo and Charlie - two young brothers - and their poor Devonshire family from 1909 until 1916, when the outbreak of war destroys their country idyll. Both join up (one under age) leaving behind the beautiful Molly who is the love of both their lives. The young men survive gas attacks, shelling, German troops and the appalling deaths of their close friends. But one thing they cannot escape...
110) Lawrence of Arabia
Pub. Date
1962
Description
The experiences of T.E. Lawrence, a young British officer, who helped lead the revolt of Arab tribes against the Turks during World War I.
Pub. Date
[2005, 2006]
Description
The complete story of the first Genocide of the 20th century, when over a million Armenians died at the hands of the Ottoman Turks during World War I -- an event that is denied by Turkey to this day. This film features interviews with leading experts in the field, such as Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samantha Power and New York Times best-selling author Peter Balakian. The documentary includes never-before-seen historical footage of the events and...
112) The African Queen
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's reverend was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on a long difficult journey, without any comfort. Rose grows...
113) War horse
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets; British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter....
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
A French woman searches for her fiance at the end of World War I. He is presumed dead when he is court-martialed secretly and sentenced to almost certain death when he is abandoned in No Man's Land. Despite the long odds, the woman continues to search for the love of her life.
116) Sergeant York
Pub. Date
[c2006]
Description
Story of a boy drafted into the military who begins his career as a pacifist and then soon sees the justification for fighting.
117) Regeneration
Pub. Date
2010
Description
In the midst of WWI, Edinburgh's Craiglockhart Hospital is crowded with traumatized soldiers scarred by the horrors of battle. Dr. William Rivers, the hospital psychiatrist who hovers on the edge of a nervous breakdown as he attempts to 'cure' the incurable.
118) Lawrence of Arabia
Pub. Date
[1962]
Description
Cinematic account of the life of T.E. Lawrence, best known as Lawrence of Arabia.
119) Sorrell and son
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Stephen Sorrell, a decorated British army officer, returns home after the First World War to face unemployment, poverty and his wife's desertion. Determined to educate his son as a gentleman, Sorrell is forced to accept exhausting and demeaning jobs to provide him with the best possibilities for a brighter future.
120) Flyboys
Pub. Date
2006
Description
A story of the young Americans who volunteered to be part of the French military prior to the United States involvement in WWI, also known as Lafayette Escadrille, and how they became the country's first fighter pilots.