Trench warfare movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant trench warfare movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, historical drama and psychological films and TV shows about / with trench warfare, soldier, world war one, war, military, great war, battles, death, world war two and world war plots mostly in War, Drama and History genres shot in UK, USA, France and other countries.
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trench warfare movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as trench warfare: Journey's End (2017), 1917 (2019), All Quiet on the Western Front (2022), The Great War (2019), Merry Christmas (2005), Unknown Soldier (2018), The Fear (2015), Beneath Hill 60 (2010), Blizzard of Souls (2019), Land and Freedom (1995).

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 6.7
 11K
Journey's End (2017)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate.
Style: suspense, psychological, period piece, thought provoking, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: world war one, trench warfare, war, great war, british army, mentally unstable, army, officer, world war two, battles, fear, nightmare ...
Time: year 1918, 1910s, future
Place: france
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 8.2
 667K
1917 (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA, India, Spain
Duration: 119 min.
Story: At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds ...
Style: tense, period piece, entertaining, sad, visually stunning ...
Audience: boys' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot: world war one, trench warfare, race against time, british soldier, british army, death, soldier, military, battlefield, british military, survival, dangerous mission ...
Time: year 1917, 1910s, 2010s, 20th century, year 2019
Place: persia, britain, los angeles, france
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All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA, UK
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, entertaining, thrilling, novela ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war one, trench warfare, battles, military, battlefield, soldier, death of friend, german army, infantry, dying young, german soldier, death ...
Time: year 1917, year 1914, 2020s, year 1918, 1910s ...
Place: germany, france
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The Great War (2019)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In November of 1918 as World War I was ending, a unit of American soldiers goes behind enemy lines to find a lost platoon of African American soldiers.
Style: captivating, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war one, trench warfare, military, soldier, rescue mission, battles, military life, infantrymen, death, army, wartime life, battlefield ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1918
Place: europe
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Merry Christmas (2005)
Genre: Drama, History, Music, Romance, War
Country: France, Germany, UK, Belgium, Romania, Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well under way. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called an informal, and unauthorized, truce where the various front-line soldiers of the ...
Style: uplifting, touching, emotional, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: christmas, world war one, truce, war, soldier, holiday, human spirit, idealism, christmas eve, friendship, trench warfare, prejudice ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 2005, 1920s, year 1914
Place: france, europe, berlin germany, holland, prussia ...
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Unknown Soldier (2018)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 270 min.
TV show
Story: The Unknown Soldier miniseries expands the story of the 2017 film of the same name. The World War II series based on Väinö Linna's classic novel closely follows a machine gun company of the Finnish Army on the Karelian front during the ...
Plot: world war two, nazi germany, soldier, military, army, friendship, death, wounded soldier, patriotism, wounded, nordic, trench warfare ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: finland, soviet union
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 5.5
 264
The Fear (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young soldier testifies of his thoughts about the first world war, between disillusion, fear and hate, following his path through the letters he sends to his lover.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, rough
Plot: world war one, soldier, military, bombing, self mutilation, death of friend, desperation, wounded, trench warfare, hiding, youth, love ...
Time: 1910s, year 1914, year 1916, year 1915, year 1917
Place: france
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Beneath Hill 60 (2010)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare – one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was a secret struggle BENEATH the Western Front that combined daring engineering, ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, emotional, uplifting ...
Plot: world war one, military, war, great war, human spirit, hopes, trench warfare, danger, tunnel, world war, life is a bitch, brutality ...
Time: 20th century, year 1916, 1910s
Place: gallipoli, belgium, europe, germany, australia
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Blizzard of Souls (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Latvia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The love story of sixteen-year-old Arturs is interrupted by the First World War. After losing his mother and his home, he finds some consolation in joining the army, because this is the first time national battalions are allowed in the Russian ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot: world war one, soldier, patriotism, wartime, war, life is a bitch, loss of family, struggle for survival, military, battles, wartime life, fight for supremacy ...
Time: 20th century
Place: estonia, poland, latvia
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Land and Freedom (1995)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, Spain, Germany, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The movie narrates the story of David Carr, an unemployed worker and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. In 1936 he decides to fight for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, an anti-fascist coalition of liberals, communists and ...
Style: political, informative, sad, social, hispanic ...
Plot: spanish civil war, revolution, politics, working class, communist, civil war, anarchist, anarchy, trench warfare, radical, dictator, dictatorship ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 90s, year 1995
Place: spain, barcelona, catalonia, europe, england
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The Lost Battalion (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Fact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of World War I. Based on a true story, The Lost Battalion is set in 1918 ...
Style: serious, rough, bleak, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war one, war, military, trench warfare, great war, survival, military life, american abroad, u.s. military, u.s. army, pigeon, heroes ...
Time: 1910s, year 1918, 20th century
Place: france, europe
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Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 186 min.
TV show
Story: A unique slant, profiling the life of Adolf Hitler as a child and his rise through the ranks of the National German Workers' Party prior to World War II.
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, hitler, nazism, fascism, against humanity, racism, political unrest, dictatorship, nazi, politics, historical character, ruler ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, 1910s
Place: germany, europe, austria
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 7.3
 696K
Wonder Woman (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, War
Country: USA, China
Duration: 141 min.
Story: An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.
Style: visually stunning, period piece, psychotronic, exciting, epic ...
Audience: chick flick, family outing, girls' night, family friendly, teens ...
Plot: superhero, superheroine, world war one, strong female character, female warrior, mythology, good versus evil, fight scenes, tough girl, heroes, strong female lead, super powers ...
Time: 1910s, year 2017, 2010s, future, year 1918
Place: london, ancient greece, tower bridge london, paris france, ottoman empire ...
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 7.1
 8K
The Blue Max (1966)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 156 min.
Story: A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
Style: retro, exciting, realistic, serious, sex comedy
Plot: world war one, ambition, aviation, fighter plane, fighter pilot, military, biplane, chivalry, airplane shot down, soldier, german army, great war ...
Time: year 1966, 1910s, year 1916
Place: germany
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 3.7
 128
21 Brothers (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 21 Brothers tells the story of the Canadian 21st Battalion as they prepare for the battle of Courcellette in WWI. Taking place in real time, the film follows Sgt. Reid as he must get his men ready for the impending battle. Not only must he prep his ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating
Plot: world war one, young soldier, military, battles, trench warfare, casualty of war, recruitment, tragedy, soldier, death, war, military life ...
Time: year 1916, 20th century, 1910s
Place: germany
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The Monocled Mutineer (1986)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 310 min.
TV show
Story: The Monocled Mutineer is a British television series made by the BBC in 1986, and shown on BBC1, the first episode being transmitted on 31 August 1986, intended to head BBC1's autumn season of drama. Viewed by about ten million people, the ...
Style: costume drama, period drama
Plot: world war one, mutiny, great war, war, world war, trench warfare, impostor, british army, murder, class differences, british military, rebellion ...
Time: 20th century
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 7.2
 165K
War Horse (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend.
Style: touching, emotional, epic, uplifting, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, date night, girls' night, teens, teen drama ...
Plot: world war one, horse, war, friendship, animal training, animal, battles, human spirit, wartime, battlefield, danger, military ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 2010s, 1920s, year 2011 ...
Place: england, belgium, britain, america, europe ...
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Many Wars Ago (1970)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: On the Italian/Austrian front during World War I, a disastrous Italian attack upon the Austrian positions leads to a mutiny among the decimated Italian troops.
Style: historical drama, realistic, serious, captivating, rough ...
Plot: world war one, death penalty, great war, war, italian history, world war, bureaucracy, anti war, soldier, man killed, death, execution ...
Time: 1910s, year 1916, 20th century
Place: alps, italy
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 7.4
 29K
Cross of Iron (1977)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 132 min.
Story: It is 1943, and the German army, ravaged and demoralised, are hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of all this madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous ...
Style: political, cult classic, brutal, bleak, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, eastern front, anti war, war, nazi, soldier, wehrmacht, military, russian soldier, survival, world war, war atrocity ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1977, year 1943
Place: germany, bolivia, france, siberia, russia ...
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 7.3
 6K
Birdsong (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 165 min.
TV show
Story: As an English soldier fights in the horrific trenches of northern France, he is haunted by the memories of his forbidden love affair with a French woman.
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, stylized, epic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: world war one, soldier, trench warfare, love affair, military, lovers, lovers apart, great war, war, battles, election, underground ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: france, united kingdom, europe
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King & Country (1964)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: During World War I a British soldier, charged with desertion, is defended by an officer who at first despises his actions and then grows to feel sympathy for him.
Style: thought provoking, tense, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: world war one, courtroom, military, great war, anti war, courtroom drama, lawyer, world war, trial, desertion, court martial, aviation ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1917
Place: england, belgium
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Deadline Gallipoli (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 197 min.
TV show
Story: Three journalists, Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead Bartlett and Phillip Schuler, arrive at Gallipoli with the invading British and Allied troops in 1915. They will report the war but are prevented from getting out the true story of an unfolding ...
Style: realistic, captivating, tense, serious, historical drama ...
Plot: world war one, journalism, idealism, soldier, battle zone, danger, great war, intrigue, trench warfare, media, turkish army, male nudity ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1915
Place: middle east, turkey, ottoman empire, gallipoli
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Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.
Style: saga, action adventure, futuristic, psychotronic, exciting ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: star wars, space travel, smuggler, spacecraft, organized crime, alien, spaceship, interspecies friendship, space opera, gangster, gambling, space battle ...
Time: 2010s, future
Place: space western
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: June 1918. Indiana Jones is working to get Austrian deserters safely to the allies side in the Italian Alps. In his spare time, he is wooing an Italian beauty named Guiletta. When he finds out another man is vying for her attention, Indy and his new ...
Plot: indiana jones, treasure hunt, archaeology, writers, treasure hunter, archaeologist, great war, lost world, shootout, combat, violence, pistol ...
Time: 1910s
Place: morocco, italy
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Thomas the Impostor (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princesse de Bormes, organises a convoy of cars to evacuate the wounded from the front, and bring them back to her villa in Paris to recuperate. The ...
Plot: world war one, literary, first aid, liar, soldier, mother daughter relationship, nurse, widow, red cross, hierarchy, bishop, french army ...
Time: year 1914
Place: paris france, france
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Fragments of Antonin (2006)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A psychiatrist who probes the mind of traumatized soldiers attempts to unlock the secret that drove a gentle but deeply-disturbed World War I veteran to the edge of insanity.
Plot: world war one, psychotherapy, therapy, psychology, secret, psychological disorder, execution, deserter, male nudity, manslaughter, death, soldier ...
Time: 1910s
Place: france
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Behind the Lines (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Based on Pat Barker's novel of the same name, 'Regeneration' tells the story of soldiers of World War One sent to an asylum for emotional troubles. Two of the soldiers meeting there are Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot: world war one, shell shock, great war, war, gay interest, world war, writers, psychology, poet, world war two, mental illness, anti war ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century
Place: scotland, europe
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Fraulein Doktor (1969)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A seductive and ruthless spy in the service of Germany steals state secrets- including the formula for poison gas-from England and France during World War I. British intelligence, in turn, tries to hunt her down.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting
Plot: world war one, great war, spy, war, world war, nazi spy, female spy, betrayal, espionage, submarine, lesbian seduction, lesbianism ...
Time: year 1969, year 1916
Place: scotland, france, spain, germany, russia ...
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 8.3
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1914-1918 (1996)
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, War
Country: UK, USA
TV show
Story: The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century is a 1996 documentary series that aired on PBS. It chronicles World War I over eight episodes. It was narrated by Dame Judi Dench in the UK and Salome Jens in the United States. The series won two ...
Plot: world war one, great war, fictional history, intrigue, biopic, world war, bolshevik, czar, influenza, russian civil war, poison gas, russian revolution ...
Time: 1910s
Place: turkey, mexico, france, belgium, versailles
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 6.3
 1K
War Hunt (1962)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Recruits head to the front lines towards the close of the Korean War. The interaction between two of the soldiers...an idealistic newcomer and a psychotic who goes on one-man patrols slitting enemy throats under cover of night...and the orphan boy ...
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: korean war, world war two, soldier, psychopath, heroes, innocence lost, idealism, buddies, danger, obsession, military, army investigation ...
Time: year 1962, 50s, 1950s, year 1953
Place: iraq, korea, asia
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