Watch La Grande Illusion

A hunting weekend at a chateau, farce turning to death; Renoir on the France of 1939.

French and German colonists in 1915 Africa learn there is a war and stage their own.

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

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

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

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.

An idiot, or a genius, in the Austro-Hungarian army; the funniest book about a war.