Best World War I movies of 1980s

Actors : Gholamhossein Naghshineh, Esmail Davarfar, Esmaeel Mehrabi, Mohamad Motie,
Directors : Jamshid Heydari,

Iran is still reeling from the ravages of the First World war. Two elderly sibling princes decide to run for the newly founded national-assembly, in an effort to dissuade its members from voting to end Qajar rule.

Actors : Eli Skorcheva, Kameliya Todorova, Stefan Danailov, Nevena Kokanova,
Directors : Yanko Yankov,

The action takes place at the beginning of the 20th century in the provincial Bulgarian town, Turnovo. A rich young doctor suffers because of his love to his housemaid. Meanwhile the First World War is beginning.

Actors : Julie Covington, Susan Engel, John Phillips, Ian Charleson,
Directors : Edward Bennett,

Connie is a member of the British landowning "Ascendancy" in Ireland after WWI. Through a chance friendship with a British soldier, she learns how sheltered she has been, and chooses to ...

Actors : Komaki Kurihara, Kumiko Ohba, Yoshiko Tanaka, Yûko Kotegawa,
Directors : Tadashi Imai,

Story follows a group of high school girls trained as nurses during World War II who witness the horrors of war first-hand on Okinawa.

Actors : Jan Peszek, Wojciech Wysocki, Gustaw Holoubek, Janusz Michalowski,
Directors : Wojciech Has,

Set during the World War I in a prison cell. A newspaper satirist, a safecracker and a clerical murderer have been loaded into a common cell until the investigation into their supposed ...

Actors : Suzanne Flon, Lambert Wilson, Jacques Dufilho, Jean Carmet,
Directors : Georges Wilson,

Arsène Muselier returns to his home village at the end of the First World War. His only injury is a head wound, which sometimes provokes periods of delirium and fury. As he renews his ...

Actors : William Hutt, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Martha Henry, Brent Carver,
Directors : Robin Phillips,

Robert Ross lives a protected adolescence in a well-off Toronto suburb. Secretive and withdrawn, he shares his thoughts only with his sister Rowena, who is mentally disabled. He feels ...

Actors : Gabriele Barth, Detlef Bierstedt, Gerd Baltus, Carmen-Maja Antoni,
Directors : Ralf Kirsten,

Kathe Kollwitz was 47 years old, and already a well established artist in Germany and abroad when Peter, her youngest son, volunteered to join the German army in WWI and was killed two ...

Actors : Józef Fryzlewicz, Edmund Fetting, Krzysztof Chamiec, Ignacy Gogolewski,
Directors : Bohdan Poreba,

A historical reconstruction of dramatic events leading to creation of Polish state. Covers the First World War and the postwar period up to the Treaty of Versailles.

Actors : Pak Ki Ju, Kim Ryang Rim,

While serving as a journalist in World War 2 for the Imperial Army of Japan, "Takahashi Minoru" (Pak Ki Ju) sees first-hand the impact on Koreans who have had their national identity ...

Actors : Christine Schorn, Peter Zimmermann, Joachim Lätsch, Kathrin Waligura,
Directors : Rainer Simon,

Karl and Richard, two German soldiers captured by the Russians in World War I, become very close friends-so close that Richard shares intimate stories about his wife, Anna. Through these ...