I believe it was made for TV cause I think that's where I saw it first.

made for TV and aired on A&E but still counts

Fantastic Film.....one of the best of WWI

My favorite WWI movie. I have the movie and 3 books about that group of soldiers. You really understand the grief that Maj. Whittlesey suffered from after the war that sadly lead him to commit suicide 😔

Agree mate…. A lot more accuracy than most especially at the time….. underrated film … I think the headlines of the time and the politics of it meant it wasn’t a bigger draw than it could have been……

It's almost criminal that it's not on this list. It's my favorite WWI movie as well. 👍🏻

well if you saw it then it wouldn't be Top 10 WWI movies you probably haven't seen

Agreed. Anyone with an interest in WWI should see it.

Where to watch??😮

​@@michaeleastes1705where to watch?😮

@@future2478 I bought a DVD from Amazon, but it might be on streaming services too.

that's a more famous movie

How many WWI movies are/were famous, except maybe in their day. Kubric's is a classic, but how many people other than cineasts like us watch those old movies? Most in my Gen-X cohort have never seen it. I had my son watch it when he was ten. He loved it.

​@@RoninDaveI bet most haven't seen it though.

Kirk Douglas's performance!!

Yep, Blue Max is my favourite

@@iainduncan3409 I agree but it never seems to make these kind of lists!

Yes!

I haven’t seen “The Blue Max”, but I have seen “1917”…great movie!

i saw 1917 in theators and my mind was blown! the camera work, wow! even seeing the making of was impressive in how they made it work.

Winston's most pethedick endeavor! 😢 Horrible, tragic and greatest Pommy incompetence example?

but that's not the point of this video. Paths of Glory is a more famous film like All Quiet on the Western Front

Ah yes, 'The Lighthorsemen' - very good, and also a different angle on the conflict.

"They're under the guns".

The “ANZACS” mini series was excellent! The wise cracking Paul Hogan broke the tension, without being too comical or seeming disrespectful. I hadn’t seen “The Lighthorsemen” or “40,000 Horsemen”, but they’re on my watch list. IMHO, the ANZAC’s have not received enough much -deserved , world-wide credit nor recognition. Heroes, all! ❤

No logro encontrar 40 000 horsemens en castellano Vose,una lastima...

El otro día vi "Chanuck Bair" en VOSE

Yes, very good dentures in that show.

utter garbage - "fire in the hole " = i think not ; and the cheesy pseudo nailed to the cross ending - barbed wired to the boards ; did i mention the unlikely love story

@@IndieVolken don't forget that everyone magically stops firing during the cross scene like they've never seen suffering like that before- even the artillery crews back over the horizon!

Thats probably the worst movie I have ever seen

Melodramatic baloney with poor relationship to the actual battle.

Except when Brendan Cowell says, "I'm 27 and you're 17 we have a 10 year age difference." -- I;m like, dude you're in your 30s and you look older... I did like the film.

@@jannarkiewicz633 Not sure that’s the actors fault. You do know the rarely play someone their age. That’s how acting works.

@@andrewleah1983 I get it was the writers and they wanted to keep the ages correctd (acutually they were 16 and 26 in real life but 16 might have been too young). Changing the line to 17 and 33 -- would have fixed that ackward moment. But it was a good film.

I really enjoyed that film.

@@jannarkiewicz633 16 is the age of consent in Australia and this was 100 years ago so that’s your puritanical thinking that. Even today girls can legally marry at 12 if their parent gives consent.

See if you can find Chunuk Bair (1992). Not the best movie, but is about the Kiwis at Gallipoli

@@JohnSmith-es9qx : I’ll will do my best. Thank you for the tip!

@@JohnSmith-es9qx : Hey , it’s posted here on youtube. I’ll watch it tonight and leave you a follow up comment here.

@@JohnSmith-es9qx : Hello again ! Now I’ve watched the movie. I thought it was great. Very tough conditions for the soldiers indeed. And those cartoonish operett-officers with their heads in the clouds. Today they would’ve been the first to die if they ordered attacks like that. Thx 4 tip. /R

Another suggestion that might be difficult to find: 'Uomini contro' of Francesco Rosi ('70s) Based on the autobiography of Emilio Lussu 'Un anno sull'altopiano' (one year oh the mountain) follows the life of an italian officer in the Italian front . It's not exeptional and struggles to follow the story which is based on but the engagements and the characters are really well portrayed Being an italian movie might be difficult to find and even more dubbed but It's still a good one to look for (you can find it full on youtube not sure if with sub eng)

My favorit !

I too saw "Gallipoli" in a theater when it first played in the US. I left the theater in disbelief that the British defense ministry did those ANZAC soldiers so wrong. But I have Canadian relatives, so I shouldn't have been so shocked.

@@user-li6es1so1k You do realise British & Commonwealth (excluding ANZAC) Casualty was much higher than that of the ANZAC's during the Gallipoli Campaign

@@kylestrainspotting1997 Actually, French losses at that campaign were higher than ANZAC's. Of course, for France that campaign lacked the foundational sense it has for NZ and Australia.

Yeah , I probably developed some form of PTSD after seeing Gallipoli as a teenager. WW1 movies still easily choke me up, while most WW2 do not. Something about the astonishing pathos and pointlessness of the mutual slaughter on both sides.

@@user-li6es1so1k Huh? You think the British "Defense Ministry " (which didn't exist in WWI ) did them wrong?! Your beef is with General Sir Ian Hamilton (incompetent). Btw it wasn't an ANZAC issue. Go look at British casualties at Helles Point. My grandfather was a Canadian soldier at Vimy Ridge and other WWI battles. Maybe do a little research?!

Arabs, "our tribe does not carry water"

That isn't the famous version of AQOWT. The 1930 version with Louis Wolheim as Kat is the great version.

British Foreign Secretary. NICE historical allusion.

You mean The Great War? Also, Warhorse is junk.

William Kelly's War is also pretty good

Yeah a quality little film.

And very original.

Most people have seen it. These are supposed to be ones we’ve not seen.

@@andrewleah1983 sure.. Although"Gallipoli" is extremely well-known but typically in Australia...

@@hypercomms2001 It’s well known in England.

@@hypercomms2001it’s well known to anyone older than 50, it’s not exactly an obscure movie but compared with several other movies set in the war it’s forgotten

it’s not forgotten, it’s actually highly respected for its direction, acting, and subject matter…it’s second or third behind Lawrence of Arabia and possibly All Quiet On the Western Front

1999 All the King's Men

Sherriff was a great play and screen writer responsible for many wonderful scripts and the best part is that Journey's End was written from personal experience.

Heart-wrenching!

Joan Crawford’s classic is far too well known both as a play and a film.

It is a (post) WW1 film. Crowe’s character’s sons died at Gallipoli.

@@arkdeniz It's both because a signiificant part of it is his sons experiemces in the war

I mean its about WW1, where the 'futility of conflict' rings truest. The whole reason the war happened, who fought, why they fought it and how they ended up just exemplifies this. You mention 'Poles, the Czechs, the Slovenians, the Finns and about a dozen other ethnicities' and say calling the war futility is an assumption without merit since their modern history dates back to 1918 and this being the result of a futile struggle is not the right way to think about it. But thats the point, the world changed for practically nothing. Millions upon millions died for basically nothing. The outcome was just the outcome. Then to say that one couldn't call the great war a needless and wasteful event because later on more wars were fought is stupid. WW1 was a political and geographical war, WW2 was about stopping the bad guys (dumb way to chalk up WW2 but you named dropped so thats whats happening here). The fight of 1939-1945 is nowhere near the same as what happened 1914-1918.

Breaker Morant is actually a Boer War movie, iirc, and the same storyline as Paths of Glory. It is a great story, though, and both are very well done. Have not heard of the Old Angry Shot, but will look for it.

@@habrok42 The Odd Angry Shot is a Vietnam War movie

And I read both stories in a book called The Great War, Stories from World War One when I was a kid. Along with Count Felix von Luckner and the Seeadler, Major Reynal at Fort Vaux, Billy Barker and his final dogfight, Matej Kocak, Douglas Macarthur and one Thomas Edward Lawrence (latterly of Arabia).

Sergeant York 🤣 old and unrealistic. Of its time though.

@@teesman61 old, yes…unrealistic? actually read up on him before spouting ignorant garbage, kid

The Yanks were only there for the last 5 minutes, not worth mentioning. They turned up late for the next one as well.

@@SuperEdge67 not worth mentioning yet your country won’t STFU about murdering millions of people in Africa and India

Brown made the claim, but the credit has been proved too often as Australian ground fire.

@@seanlander9321 Yes, he was buried by the Australians with full military honours. One of his flying boots is in the Australian War Memorial museum in Canberra!

AKA The Beast. Agreed. I can understand that it doesn't speak to everyone, but imo it ranks with the best war movies out there.

“The Trench” was great at depicting the claustrophobia and the anxiety of the fresh recruits awaiting battle, but….seeing “green grass “ in No Man’s Land was a major historical flaw. The war had been already been raging for two years. The landscape would have been muddy, scarred with shell holes, and littered with the bodies of the dead and the dying. Otherwise, it was a good movie.(And yes, Daniel Craig’s acting is excellent !)

These are supposed to be films we’ve not seen.

@@andrewleah1983trust me except Canadians of english stock. Noone watched this film

@@Hogtownboy1 I’ve watched it countless times. It does star my man Paul Gross so I think that helped.

@@andrewleah1983 so you are not a Canadian of UK stock

@@Hogtownboy1 I’m English of English stock.

Because the acting is just rubbish, as is the storyline.

INDEED

The whole futile war was tragic. The war to cause all the 20th century horrors to come..