Watch Black and White in Color

The German remake: the trenches of 1917 without a frame of glory.

Renoir's French officers in a German prison camp in 1916, where class matters more than nation.

The first Best Picture: a silent Great War dogfight epic with real biplanes and Clara Bow.

German schoolboys march to the trenches in the film that defined the anti-war picture.

Two soldiers cross no man's land to stop an attack, in what looks like one continuous shot.

Watch Stanley Kubrick's anti-war film Paths of Glory, set during World War I.

An American ambulance driver and an English nurse in the Italian war; the retreat from Caporetto.

Paul Baumer and his classmates in the trenches; the German novel of the First World War.