This is grandfather Sgt Wm Seed volunteered Aug 6 1914.1/4 Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.took a shell fragment at guillemot in the Somme in Aug 1916.Survived into the mid 70s though.
Posted on 07/30/2012 7:53:45 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
Without question, more movies have been made about World War II than any other, but before World War II there was World War I, and some of the best — if not the best — war films ever made were inspired by that conflict. Most movies about the Great War incorporate strong anti-war messages, and to be fair, I can think of few other conflicts (except perhaps the Crimean War or the Thirty Years War) in which this attitude is more appropriate.
You’ll see this thread running through almost every one of my picks — it’s just the way it is. With the exception of movies made as propaganda during WWI and WWII, a good hunk of the First World War films were turned out in the 1920s and ’30s, when the nations of the world were licking their wounds and realizing what a grim, useless affair the whole mess really had been. World War I also proved to be an excellent analogy for Vietnam, so a number of First World War movies were also produced during that period. Anyway, without further ado, here are my particular favorites (and some runners-up) in chronological order.
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Blue Max
African Queen :)
What you do not know is that Remarque, a man impoverished by the Great War, and his wife had triplets just 2 years after the war. Remarque fainted after the second baby was born, and the doctor commented after the third one was born: "That last Remarque was uncalled for."
Not what you expected, eh?
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Sergeant York with Gary Cooper about a true American Hero.
Parts of War Horse were interesting. All in all, it was a long and hard movie to watch, but it had it’s moments.
When I was young and during my 20s I used to tell people and friends that when they got down and felt that life was getting to be too hard or demanding, to read about the front during WWI and that it would help get them back into the proper perspective, that is a very depressing war.
Sargent York then some others.
How about The Lighthorsemen - somewhat of a dark horse (pardon the pun) but an interesting study on tactical flexibility using cavalry durng WWI.
Your picks are just fine. My particular watch-them-mucho-times favorites are Sgt. York and Paths of Glory.
Salute to Sgt Wm Seed.
even now when some of us are having a bad day,we always say “no matter what,it’s better than being in a trench in Belgium”
Thank you......lol your tag...
Very true. I’ve even written a couple of songs (metal) about it. Finally Iron Maiden did Paschendale a few years ago.
I don’t think Lost Battalion is the best, but it’s definitely top ten. They go a little overboard on the NYC gangster motif, but the visuals are excellent and the portrayals are very well acted.
The Lighthorsemen,
It is a 1987 Australian feature film about the men of a World War I light horse unit involved in the 1917 Battle of Beersheeba. The film is based on a true story and most of the characters in the film were based on real people.
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