WW1 is a big deal for us from downunder still - it very much represented a coming of age as a nation (remembering that New Zealand was amongst the hardest hit per capita in terms of casualties)
One good movie would be Peter Weir’s Gallipoli,
and if you are into reading a good play is Once On Chunuk Bair by Maurice Shadbolt (which I see has also been made into a movie)
Now that you mention, ANZACs was a great tv series.
My Grandfather on my dad’s side fought in WWI against the German’s.
My Father fought the Japanese. My mom’s brother Fought the Germans in WW2.
I married into a German family.
At some point somewhere during the 40’s one side of my family one possibly trying to kill the other side.
Yep, or just watch the fourth season of Black Adder.
The last scene in the last episode is some of the greatest television ever.
Flyboys was a decent war movie.
Beneath Hill 60
The African Queen
and arguably Dr Zhivago
It overlaps WWI. Nicholas and Alexandrawould also qualify in that respect.
On a less documentary front, there’s Deathwatch, a fantasy horror film set in the trenches of WWI. Pretty good, actually. It has LotR’s Andy Serkis as a British soldier who’s been turned into an absolute psychopath by the war.
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles has some WWI episodes
Brian
Pity that the film documentary of Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns Of August has never been released on DVD, I would pay top dollar for that. I’ll just have to buy a VHS and have it transfered.
Beaten by just over a hour. They are quite good though if you can find them. I’m not sure if they are on Netflix or not.
Canada too. I’m not how we rated in terms of casualties but Vimy Ridge is a huge part of our coming of age as a nation story.
I wonder how much longer we have until the last WWII veteran goes? The youngest would have to be about 85 years old now. We should take advantage of the fact that some are still around and appreciate and learn from them while we can.
I think the WWII vets are pretty well appreciated, at least in the US. It’s America’s favorite war ever.
From the Canadian perspective, there’s Passchendale, though I won’t attest to its quality one way or another.
The last WW2 vet will probably be a “Hitler Youth” who took part in the defense of Berlin. Does anybody know how young they could be? If such a boy was, say, 16 years old in 1945 then he’d be 83 now.
The Dawn Patrol (there were a couple of versions made within a few years of each other) were good movies from the flying aspect.
No disrespect to Ms Green, but I’m not sure that serving cups of tea a few hundred miles away makes you a veteran. Participant perhaps.
Anyway, the generation is almost surely passed now. It is so difficult to put yourself into the minds of those young people who volunteered to fight in dreadful conditions when dying was a pretty large component.
I’d never have had the backbone.