8.Kompagnie,
Infanterie - Regiment Nr. 459

Here's our recommended Great War Movie list

There were so many movies that were made after the Great War. Some show the Great War to be romantic and still others are against all wars. They all have a common theme that we call the Great War.

	All Quiet on the Western Front   (1930) **** Paul Baumer (Lew Ayres) declares, "We live in the trenches and we fight. We try not to be killed and that’s all." All Quiet on the Western Front follows a group of young Germans recruits in World War I through their passage from idealism to disillusionment.
	Stosstrupp 1917, Der Glaube an Deutschland   (1934) **** In German, B/W, The movie length is 91 minutes. Directed by Ludwig Schmid-Wildy and Hans Zoberlein. Fantastic portrayal of front line shock troops during WW I. This is one of the hardest movies to obtain in the WW1 trilogy (All Quiet On the Western Front, Westfront 1918 and Stosstrupp 1917). A must for all true WW1 movie buffs.
	WESTFRONT 1918   (1930) **** In German, B/W, in German with English subtitles. The Movie Length is 1 hour & ½ hours. Dogmatic film about German and French soldiers on the Western Front. See them live and die together without victory in this stunning portrayal of the futility of war.
	Douaumont Die Hölle von Verdun (Douaumont the Hell of Verdun)   (1931) **** Directed by Heinz Paul,  B&W, 84 minutes, German Dialogue This film re-creates the battles for Fort Douaumont, a French stronghold captured by the Germans during the Battle of Verdun. Using re-created maps, spoken dialogue, and some original World War One footage, which shows both German and French troops mobilizing, and German troops capturing, holding, and losing the fort between February and October 1916. The German officers who fought in these battles participated in making of this film.
	Standschutze Brüggler   (1930) ** In Tyrolean with no subtitles, BW, Movie length is 91 minutes. . Directed by Werner Klingler; music by Herbert Windt; featuring Ludwig Kerscher, Franziska Kinz, and Rolf Pinegger. A Tyrolean farmer's son fights in World War 1 and fights the Italian Army in the mountains.
	The Good Soldier Schweik   (1960) **** Directed by Axel von Ambesser,  104 minutes, Czech Dialogue with English Subtitles. This is a deft satire by Axel von Ambesser that undercuts the adage that a soldier must always obey orders, no matter what. At the heart of the story is Schwejk, a canine salesman who is drafted into the army during World War I. The setting is Bohemia when it was under the sway of a combined Austro-Hungarian rule. Once Schwejk has his uniform on he so devotedly follows the very letter of the law, every order that is given him, that he comes off as a total idiot. Nevertheless, he manages quite well with this tactic, whether it is feigned or not.
	JOURNEY”S END   (1930)**** B/W, The Movie Length is 1 hour & 40 minutes long. The director is James Whale. Against the background of life in the trenches of a group of officers behind British lines at St. Quentin, France, they live in a world of fear, disillusionment, precariousness, friendship, loyalty, naivety, guilt, and abandon.
	ROAD TO GLORY   (1936) **** French commander Baxter struggles with the horrors of war and the loss of his fellow soldiers, coping with the help of a steady ration of liquor. His situation worsens when Barrymore, his father and the oldest enlisted man in the army, enters his regiment, and when junior officer March becomes a rival for the attention of nurse Lang.