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The New Babylon
🇫🇷 France The 1870sIn the short-lived Commune of Paris, a conscripted soldier falls in love with a Communard saleswoman. As the army cracks down on the revolutionaries, the soldier is forced to fight against the Commune, and the pair's love is put to the test.
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She Goes to War
The 1910sRomance cradled amidst bursting shells and the havoc in frontline trenches. — A young woman disguises herself as a man and follows her fiancéé into the trenches during World War I to find out what war is really like.
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The Black Watch
🇮🇳 India The 1910sTHE CHARACTERS ACTUALLY LIVE. — Captain Donald King of the British Army goes to India just as World War I breaks out, convincing his comrades that he is a coward. In reality, he is on a secret mission to rescue British soldiers held prisoner there.
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General Crack
🇧🇪 Belgium 🇦🇹 Austria The 18th CenturyThe film takes place in the 18th century Austria and revolves around Prince Christian, commonly known as General Crack. His father had been a respectable member of the nobility but his mother was a gypsy. General Crack, as a soldier of fortune, spent his adult life selling his services to the highest bidder. He espouses the doubtful cause of Leopold II of Austria after demanding the sister of the emperor in marriage as well as half of gold of the Empire. Before he has finished his work, however, he meets a gypsy dancer and weds her. Complications arise when he takes his gypsy wife to the Austrian court and falls desperately in love with the emperor's sister.
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Waterloo
The 1810s The 1800sThis presentation of 'Waterloo', a film by Karl Grune about the last hurrah of Napoleon, is a fascinating companion to the Abel Gance epic 'Napoleon'. 'Waterloo' presents a tale of several people involved in the final battle. Napoleon and Wellington, of course, but also the Austrian general Blutcher (who is seen as a ladies' man - his scene with a flirty Countess about halfway through the film is priceless; as are his touching scenes with his plain wife (who he imagines to be a young and nubile girl when they get romantic) and some people within his regiment. Not simply a film of war, 'Waterloo' is a story of people, of lovers, of lost opportunities.
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The Burgomaster of Stilemonde
🇧🇪 Belgium The 1910sIn Belgium during the first World War , the Uhlans order the burgomaster to be shot by his son-in-law.
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Lost Patrol
🇮🇶 Iraq The 1910sA patrol of twelve soldiers is lost in the desert and killed by the tribesmen, but the sergeant makes sure that one of the tribesmen dies for every one of his men.
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The Last Command
The 1920s The 1910sA former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
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Storm Over Asia
The 1920sPudovokin's Remarkable Film Of The East In Revolt — In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a European capitalist fur trader. Ostracized from the trading post, he escapes to the hills after brawling with the trader who cheated him. In 1920 he becomes a Soviet partisan, and helps the partisans fight for the Soviets against the occupying British army. However he is captured by the British when they try to requisition cattle from the herdsmen at the same time as the commandant meets with a reincarnated Grand Lama. After the trapper is shot, the army discovers an amulet that suggests he is a direct descendant of Genghis Khan. They find him still alive, so the army restores his health and plans to use him as the head of a puppet regime. The trapper is thus thrust into prominence as he is placed in charge of the puppet government. By the end, however, the "puppet" turns against his masters in an outburst of fury.
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Four Sons
🇩🇪 Germany The 1910sBig as the Heart of Humanity! — A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent.
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Eliso
The 1860sGeorgia, 1864. The Tsarist regime is using Cossacks to forcibly resettle Muslim Georgians to Turkey in order to steal their land. Meanwhile a Muslim girl falls in love with a Christian from the next village.
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Verdun: Visions of History
The 1910sA dramatized re-enactment and documentary of the Battle of Verdun as seen by both French and German soldiers, shot on site of the actual battle.
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The Shopworn Angel
The 1910sShortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends, but a real romance soon begins.
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Dawn
🇧🇪 Belgium The 1910sA nurse helps 210 men escape to England before the Germans catch and execute her.
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The Guns of Loos
England The 1910sSet against the backdrop of the shell crisis of 1915 at home and the Battle of Loos on the Western Front, two soldiers, one the manager of Grimlaw’s munitions factory are tested in their rivalry for Diana, a red cross nurse (Madeleine Carroll in her first film role).
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Balaclava
England 🇺🇦 Ukraine The 1850sA British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as Private to take part in the Crimean War. He succeeds in capturing a top Russian spy which results in the famous Charge of the Light Brigade to take the Balaclava Heights.
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Carry on, Sergeant!
The 1910sA group of workers decide to join the army in the Great War. The indulge themselves in the side benefits to being soldiers, and one of them marries a French waitress.
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Adventurous Youth
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1910sIn Mexico, an Englishman saves a banker's daughter from a revolutionary but surrenders to save a church from destruction
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Bolibar
🇪🇸 Spain The 1800sHessian officers' flirtations with an artist's daughter accidentally give signals to the attacking English.
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Wings
The 1910sYouth, hitting the clouds! Laughing at danger! Fighting, loving, dodging death! That's "WINGS" — Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them, pines away. Cinema's first ever gay kiss?
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Napoleon
🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy The 18th Century The 1800sA massive 5 1/2 hour biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign), his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797 (the film stops there because it was intended to be part one of six, but director Abel Gance never raised the money to make the other five). The film's legendary reputation is due to the astonishing range of techniques that Gance uses to tell his story, culminating in the final twenty-minute triptych sequence, which alternates widescreen panoramas with complex multiple- image montages projected simultaneously on three screens.
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Hotel Imperial
🇦🇹 Austria 🇵🇱 Poland 🇺🇦 Ukraine The 1910sDuring World War I, an Austrian officer is trapped behind the Russian lines. He tries to sneak through to his own lines, but is forced to take refuge in a small hotel, where he is hidden by the establishment's chambermaid. The two fall in love, but a Russian general makes the hotel his headquarters and sets his sights on the maid. In addition, the Austrian must find out the identity of a spy who is feeding the Russians military information that could lead to the destruction of the Austrian army.
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The Chess Player
🇷🇺 Russia The 18th CenturyIn 1776, an inventor conceals a Polish nobleman in his chess-playing automaton, a machine whose fame leads it to the court of the Russian empress.
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Winners Of The Wilderness
The 18th CenturyDuring the French and Indian War the Indians under Pontiac kidnap Rene. Colonel O'Hara hopes to rescue and wed her.
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Blighty
England 🇫🇷 France The 1910sA chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.
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The Rough Riders
🇨🇺 Cuba The 1890sThe story of the military unit organized by future U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt and its adventures in Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898.
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Boadicea
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyThe life of the Celtic Queen Boudica (Boadicea) and her rebellion against the Roman Empire.
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The Enemy
🇦🇹 AustriaA vivid drama of Austria and one side of the war known only to the women. — Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted. Pauli and her family and friends are left behind to experience the suffering which befell civilians during the war. Her luck worsens when her father is dismissed from his professorship for teaching that war is evil. Her father argues violently with Carl's father, and degradation and despair descend on Pauli and her family as they await Carl's return from the front.
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Feu!
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The Heart of Maryland
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sAt the outbreak of the War Between the States, Maryland Calvert is loved by Maj. Alan Kendrick, son of a Virginia general, and Capt. Fulton Thorpe. Nancy, whom Thorpe has loved unwisely, follows him to Washington and commits suicide when she learns he will not marry her; as a result, Alan is forced to request his resignation. When Fort Sumter is fired upon, Alan, who admires Lincoln's principles, joins the Union Army though his father is among the Secessionist leaders; as a result, he is estranged from Maryland. Thorpe, who has joined the Confederacy as a spy, is responsible for Alan's arrest, but Maryland victoriously comes to his aid by ringing the alarm bell.
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Ham and Eggs at the Front
🇫🇷 France The 1910sFifi, a dusky, sultry Senegalese spy, uses her wiles to get information out of two American army soldiers, Ham and Eggs, in France during World War I.
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The General
Tennessee Georgia The 1860sBuster drives "The General" to trainload of laughter. — During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnnie Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
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What Price Glory
🇵🇭 Philippines The 1910sU.S. Marine sergeants Quirt and Flagg are inveterate romantic rivals on peacetime assignments in China and the Philippines. In 1917, W.W. I brings them to France, where Flagg, now a captain, takes up with flirtatious Charmaine, inn-keeper's daughter. Of course, Quirt has to arrive and spoil his fun. But the harsh realities of war and the threat of a shotgun marriage give the two men a common cause...
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The Better 'Ole
The 1910sThe adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.
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The Sporting Lover
EnglandCaptain Terrance Connaughton loses his stable of horses in a card game with Algernon Cravens.
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The Greater Glory
🇦🇹 Austria The 1910sA story of Vienna following World War I, in which the butchers became millionaires and the aristocrats became beggars, told against a background of mother-love and sacrifice.
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Across the Pacific
🇵🇭 Philippines The 1890sFollowing the Spanish-American War, a soldier is given the assignment of finding the leader of a band of rebels in the Philippines. In order to do this, he must romance Roma, a cabaret spy working for the rebels. This does not please the daughter of his commanding officer, whom he is romancing.
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Mons
🇫🇷 France The 1910sA reconstruction of the arrival of the British Army in France in August 1914, and of the retreat from Mons.
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The Big Parade
🇫🇷 France The 1910sThe epic of the American doughboy! — The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.
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People in Need
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Janice Meredith
🇺🇸 United States of America The 18th CenturyIt is 1774, the eve of the American War of Independence. Janice comes from a Tory household. She cavorts with American and British alike, is pursued by Charles Fownes, patriot and friend of General Washington.
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Barbara Frietchie
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sTwo lovers in a small town in Maryland are torn apart by the Civil War--she is loyal to the south while he heads north to join the federal army, determined to protect the Union. Eventually his unit arrives in his hometown and he is reunited with his lover, but things aren't the way they used to be.
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The Eternal City
🇮🇹 ItalyWar drama - Fitzmaurice was able to film King Victor Emmanuel III and Benito Mussolini reviewing Italian troops. As with many silents directed by George Fitzmaurice this film is now a lost film.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
🇫🇷 France 🇦🇷 Argentina The 1910sSet in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Following the death of the family patriarch, the man's two daughters and their families resettle to France and Germany, respectively. In time the Great War breaks out, putting members of the family on opposing sides.
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The Four Feathers
The 1880sWhen a British army officer, Harry Faversham, resigns his commission on the eve of his regiment's departure for service in the Sudan he is sent four white feathers of cowardice by his comrades and fiancee. In an attempt to redeem himself, Faversham travels out to the Sudan where he saves the lives of his former comrades.
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Heroes All
The 1910sFilms shot by newsreel companies and army cameramen are featured to tell the story of what it was like for soldiers during World War I.
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The False Faces
The 1910sAnother "Lone Wolf" story. Perils by the score! Thrills-loads and loads of them! Nuff said! See it and be convinced. — During World War I, a professional thief known as The Lone Wolf is assigned to steal a cylinder with important information from behind the German lines and bring it to Allied intelligence headquarters. However, German agents set out to stop him, headed by the man who was responsible for the death of the thief's sister.
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