These are depictions of diverse aspects of war in film and television, including but not limited to documentaries, TV mini-series, drama serials, and propaganda film. The list starts before World War I, followed by the Roaring Twenties, and then the Great Depression, which eventually saw the outbreak of World War II in 1939, which ended in 1945. The Cold War which soon followed generated its own productions.
Mexican Revolution (1910–1920),Mexican Border War (1910–1919) Cristero War (1926–1929), and Pancho Villa Expedition (1916–1917) (also see List of Mexican Revolution and Cristero War films)
Revolution Trilogy (1933–1936) Viva Villa! (1934) Sucedió en Jalisco (Los cristeros) (1947) La negra Angustias (1950) Viva Zapata! (1952) They Came to Cordura (1959) A Bullet for the General (Quien Sabe?) (1966) The Mercenary (1968) Villa Rides (1968) 100 Rifles (1969) The Wild Bunch (1969) Zapata (1970) A Fistful of Dynamite (1971) Sucedió en Jalisco (1972), remake of the 1947 film Three Amigos (1986) Old Gringo (1989) And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003), HBO made-for-television film Zapata: El sueño de un héroe (2004) The Last Christeros (2011), chronicling Cristero rebels who fought the Mexican government into the early 1930s For Greater Glory (2012)
Chicograndre (2010), Film about the Pancho Villa/Mexican Expedition La Sangre de un Valiente, aka El Hombre de Hierro (1993), Mexican film about the Pancho Villa/Mexican Expedition
US Intervention in Nicaragua / Nicaraguan Civil War (1912–1933) Flight (1929) The Marines Are Coming (1934) The Marines Fly High (1940) Sandino (1990)
World War I (1914–1918) (See also: List of World War I films and World War I films)
My Four Years in Germany (1918) Pack Up Your Troubles (1932) Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), biopic of George M. Cohan Wilson (1944), biopic of President Woodrow Wilson Johnny Got His Gun (1971) The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992–1993 TV series) Haber (2008), the life of Fritz Shimon Haber and his contribution to the development of chemical warfare during World War I
Western Front (1914–1918)
The Little American (1917) The Unbeliever (1918) Hearts of the World (1918) Shoulder Arms (1918) The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) The Big Parade (1925) The Better 'Ole (1926) What Price Glory (1926) 7th Heaven (1927) Barbed Wire (1927) The Somme (1927) The Patent Leather Kid (1927) Carry on, Sergeant! (1928) Verdun, visions d'histoire (1928), depiction of the Battle of Verdun The Black Watch (1929) She Goes to War (1929) Westfront 1918 (1930) War Nurse (1930) All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Journey's End (1930) Doughboys (1930) Hell on Earth (1931) The Other Side (1931) Wooden Crosses (1932) Today We Live (1933) Pilgrimage (1933) The Road to Glory (1936) Unternehmen Michael (1937) The Road Back (1937) La Grande Illusion (1937) Patrioten (1937) Block-Heads (1938) Who Goes Next? (1938) Fighting 69th (1940) The Great Dictator (1940) set during World War I and the inter-war period. Sergeant York (1941), story of MOH recipient Alvin York What Price Glory (1952) The Sergeant's Daughter (1952) Paths of Glory (1957), French troops are sacrificed in pointless battles Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) King and Country (1964) Thomas the Impostor (1964) King of Hearts (1966) Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) Fräulein Doktor (1969), spy drama from the German point of view Up the Front (1972) All Quiet on the Western Front (1979) Blackadder Goes Forth (1989), comedy-miniseries following a couple of British Soldiers in a trench in Flanders Hedd Wyn (1992) Legends of the Fall (1994), American brothers go off to war with the Canadian Army Regeneration (1997), British medical staff deal with PTSD The Trench (1999), depiction of British troops in the Battle of the Somme The Lost Battalion (2001), American battalion during the Argonne Forest battle Deathwatch (2002) Company K (2004), U.S. Marines in France A Very Long Engagement (2004) Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas) (2005), depicting the unofficial Christmas truce of 1914 La France (2007) Finding Rin Tin Tin (2007) Passchendaele (2008), Canadian troops in Flanders My Boy Jack (2008), story of Rudyard Kipling's soldier son Jack Beneath Hill 60 (2010), Australian tunneling engineers War Horse (2011), a horse's journey through the Western Front Birdsong (2012) Forbidden Ground (2013) The Wipers Times (2013) An Accidental Soldier (2013) Testament of Youth (2014) Our World War (TV series) Wonder Woman (2017) Journey's End (2017) Trench 11 (2017) Sajjan Singh Rangroot (2018) 1917 (2019) All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
Eastern Front (1914–1918)
Hotel Imperial (1927) Outskirts (1933) Captured! (1933) Hotel Imperial (1939) The Good Soldier Schweik (1956) Forest of the Hanged (1964) Doctor Zhivago (1965) Signum Laudis (1980) The Woman and the Stranger (1985) Doctor Zhivago (2002) Admiral (2008) (Адмиралъ in Russian) Josef (2011) Battalion (2015) («Батальон» in Russian) Blizzard of Souls (2019)
Italian Front (1915–1918)
Berge in Flammen (1931) A Farewell to Arms (1932) Militiaman Bruggler (1936) Il caimano del Piave (1951) I cinque dell'Adamello (1954) A Farewell to Arms (1957) In Love and War (1958) La Grande guerra (1959) The Shortest Day (1962) Uomini contro (1970) In Love and War (1996) The Border (1996) Greenery Will Bloom Again (2014) The Silent Mountain (2014) Torneranno i prati (2014)
Middle Eastern theatre of World War I (1914–1918)
Ravished Armenia (1919), depiction of the Armenian genocide based on the eyewitness account by Aurora Mardiganian. Tell England (1931) The Lost Patrol (1934) Uproar in Damascus (1939) Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940) Lawrence of Arabia (1962), depiction of the Battle of Aqaba and campaigns in Arabia Gallipoli (1981), depiction of young Australian soldiers in the Battle of Gallipoli Anzacs (1985), miniseries following Australian and New Zealand troops from recruitment to Gallipoli and the Western Front The Lighthorsemen (1987), depiction of Australians at the Battle of Beersheba Chunuk Bair (film) (1992) All the King's Men (1999), British troops disappear during the Gallipoli campaign Gallipoli (2005), documentary 120 (film) (2008) Çanakkale 1915 (2012) Gallipoli: End of the Road (2013) Theeb (2014) Deadline Gallipoli (2015), TV miniseries depicting the Gallipoli Campaign from the point of view of war correspondents Gallipoli (miniseries) (2015), TV miniseries adapted from the book by Les Carlyon The Promise (2016), depiction of the Armenian genocide
African theatre of World War I (1914–1918)
Mamba (1930) The Last Outpost (1935) The African Queen (1951) Black and White in Color (1976) Shout at the Devil (1976) Fort Saganne (1984)
Jungle Cruise (2021)
Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I (1914) (1963) Siege of Tsingtao
Serbian Campaign of World War I (1914–1918)
Sa verom u Boga (1932), Serbian silent film Ultimatum (1938), the backdrop of the July Crisis, between the assassination of Archduke and the beginning of the First World War March on the Drina (1964), Serbian victory over Austria-Hungary in the Battle of Cer in August 1914 Kolubarska bitka (1990), TV film about the Serbian victory against Austria-Hungary in the Battle of Kolubara in November 1914 Toplički ustanak (1991), TV documentary about the Serb rebellion in 1917 carried out by Serbian guerrillas against the Bulgarian occupation force in the eastern part of Serbia Capitaine Conan (1996), French soldiers in Salonika and Bulgaria Where the Yellow Lemon Blooms (2006), Serbia's exodus after a joint offensive by Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria in the winter of 1915/16 St. George Shoots the Dragon (2009) Milunka Savić – heroina Velikog rata (2013), docu-drama about Milunka Savić, the most decorated female soldier of the Great War, veteran of three wars Heroj 1914 (2014), docu-drama about the successful Serbian defense against Austria-Hungary in 1914 The Man Who Defended Gavrilo Princip (2014), true story of Rudolf Cestler, who defended members of the 'Young Bosnia' in court Zaspanka za vojnika (2018) King Peter I (2018)
Naval warfare of World War I (1914–1918)
Wrath of the Seas (1926) The Blue Eagle (1926) The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands (1927) Men Without Women (1930) Seas Beneath (1931) Suicide Fleet (1931) Hell Below (1933) Morgenrot (1933) Born for Glory (1935) Submarine Patrol (1938) Thunder Afloat (1939) The Spy in Black (1939) Hell Below Zero (1954) Moonzund (1987) Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea (2007) Admiral (2008) Die Männer der Emden (2012)
Aviation in World War I (1915–1918)
Midnight Lovers (1926) Wings (1927), air warfare The Legion of the Condemned (1928) The Sky Hawk (1929) Lilac Time (1928) The Shopworn Angel (1928) The Dawn Patrol (1930), air warfare Hell's Angels (1930) Young Eagles (1930) The Eagle and the Hawk (1933) Ace of Aces (1933) Crimson Romance (1934) Hell in the Heavens (1934) The Shopworn Angel (1938) The Dawn Patrol (1938), air warfare Captain Eddie (1945) Lafayette Escadrille (1958) The Blue Max (1966), air warfare Darling Lili (1970) Von Richthofen and Brown (1971), air warfare Zeppelin (1971), air warfare Aces High (1976), air warfare Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986), air warfare Flyboys (2006), air warfare The Red Baron (2008), depiction of Manfred von Richthofen The Lafayette Escadrille (Documentary) 2010, Flying and Fighting for France, April, 1916 – December, 1917
Spy fiction in World War I
Yankee Doodle in Berlin (1919) Mare Nostrum (1926) Dishonored (1931) Mata Hari (1931) I Was a Spy (1933) Stamboul Quest (1934) The Crouching Beast (1935) Rendezvous (1935) Secret Agent (1936) Dark Journey (1937) Street of Shadows (1937) Nurse Edith Cavell (1939) British Intelligence (1940) Mata Hari, Agent H21 (1965) Fräulein Doktor (1969) Reilly, Ace of Spies (1983) Mata Hari (1985) Ashenden (1991) Mata Hari (2017) The King's Man (2021)
Russian Civil War (1917–1922)
The Forty-First (1927) Tempest (1928) Tommy (1931) Chapaev (1934) The Three Women (1936) Friends (1938) Lenin in 1918 (1939) Shchors (1939) The Forty-First (1956) Miles of Fire (1957) Comissar (1967) The Elusive Avengers (1967) Two Comrades Were Serving (1968) The Adjutant of His Excellency (1969 miniseries) White Sun of the Desert (1969) Bumbarash (1971) The Flight (1970) Dauria (1971) Capitaine Conan (1996), French Army in the Bessarabian front Admiral (2008) Doctor Zhivago (2002) Television mini series (2006) The White Guard (2012) Television series
Russian Revolution (1917)
The End of St. Petersburg (1927) October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1927) Arsenal (1928) The Last Command (1928) The Red Dance (1928) Rasputin and the Empress (1932) British Agent (1934) Lenin in October (1937) Doctor Zhivago (1965) Reds (1981)
Finnish Civil War (1918)
1918 (1957) Here, Beneath the North Star (1968) Lunastus (1997) Raja 1918 (2007) Tears of April (2008) Under the North Star (2009)
Latvian War of Independence (1918–1920) Rigas Sargi (Defenders of Riga) (2007) Blizzard of Souls (2019)
Estonian War of Independence (1918–1920) Noored Kotkad (The Young Eagles) (1927) Nimed marmortahvlil (Names in Marble) (2002)
Hungarian–Romanian War (1919) Csillagosok, katonák (1967) Magyar rapszódia (1979)
Polish–Soviet War (1919–1921) Battle of Warsaw 1920 (2011)
Irish War of Independence (1919–1921) and Irish Civil War (1922–1923) (also see List of Irish revolutionary period films)
Irish Destiny (1926) The Key (1934) The Informer (1935) Beloved Enemy (1936) The Plough and the Stars (1937) My Life for Ireland (1941) The Quiet Man (1952) Shake Hands With The Devil (1959)