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1920s War Drama Movies

Public list by WPS with 31 movies or TV shows/series

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Battleship Potemkin(1925)

1h 15min | Drama, History
3.8/5 (with 494 votes)

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the development of cinema and is a masterful example of montage editing.

The Big Parade(1925)

2h 31min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.8/5 (with 46 votes)

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.

Noah's Ark(1928)

2h 15min | Drama, War
3.0/5 (with 7 votes)

The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.

The Last Command(1928)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 28min | Drama, History, Romance / Love, War
3.7/5 (with 29 votes)

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

Arsenal(1929)

1h 27min | Drama, War
3.5/5 (with 19 votes)

A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.

Storm Over Asia(1928)

2h 7min | Drama, War, History
3.4/5 (with 24 votes)

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.

Her Man o' War(1926)

1h | Drama

During World War I, an American soldier is captured and taken prisoner by the Germans. However, instead of being placed in a prisoner-of-war camp, he is assigned to the small farm of a young woman and her son to help raise crops to help feed the German army and people.

Directed by Frank Urson

The Shopworn Angel(1928)

1h 22min | Romance / Love, War

Shortly 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.

The Greater Glory(1926)

1h 50min | Drama, War, Romance / Love

A 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.

Old Ironsides(1926)

1h 51min | History, Drama
3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

An embellished account of the 1813 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then terrorizing American shipping, focusing on the crew and passengers of a fictional merchant ship, The Esther, who fall afoul of the same pirates and thus become involved with the Constitution's mission.

The Crew(1928)

1h 54min | Drama

First adaptation of Joseph Kessel World War I novel, in which an aviator falls in love with a woman who turns out to be the wife of one of his flying comrades.

Winners Of The Wilderness(1927)

1h 8min | Drama, War, History

During the French and Indian War the Indians under Pontiac kidnap Rene. Colonel O'Hara hopes to rescue and wed her.

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Hotel Imperial(1927)

1h 25min | Drama, War
2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

During 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.

Tommy Atkins(1929)

A cleric enlists on learning he loves his brother's sweetheart, saves his life, and finds he is really an Earl.

The Warrens of Virginia(1924)

50min | Drama, Western

As the Civil War begins, Ned Burton leaves his Southern love Agatha Warren and joins the Union army. He is later protected and saved from death by Agatha in spite of her loyalty to the South.

Directed by Elmer Clifton - With Martha Mansfield

Held by the Enemy(1920)

1h | Drama

During the Civil War, Rachel Hayne, a young widow, is among those "held by the enemy" when her old family home is within the lines occupied by the Northern troops. Protected by Colonel Prescott from looters and the unwelcome attentions of Surgeon Fielding, Rachel begins to fall in love with the gallant Yankee officer. Their romance is disrupted when Rachel's husband Gordon, long reported dead, is captured as a spy and condemned to death.

Blighty(1927)

2h 20min | War, Drama

A chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.

The Forty-First(1927)

1h 6min | War
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

A young woman sharpshooter fighting with the Reds in Turkestan misses her forty-first victim, a handsome White lieutenant, and ends up escorting him, by boat, into captivity across the Aral Sea. A storm strands the two on an island.

Mutiny(1929)

1h 27min | War, Drama

Central Asia during the Civil War. The Jarkent battalion of the Red Army, located in the Verny (now Alma-Ata), receives an order from Frunze to go to the Fergana region to fight the Basmachi. A group of kulaks, with the support of local merchants and beys, incites the unconscious, wavering mass of the Red Army to revolt. The anti-Soviet agitation of counter-revolutionaries, demagogically exploiting the mood of war weariness, provokes an open mutiny in the battalion.

Directed by Semyon Timoshenko - With Aleksey Alekseyev, Tatyana Guretskaya

Red Partisans(1924)

2h 32min | Drama, War

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The Burgomaster of Stilemonde(1929)

In Belgium during the first World War , the Uhlans order the burgomaster to be shot by his son-in-law.

Directed by George Banfield - With John Martin-Harvey, Fern Andra, Robert Andrews

Carry on, Sergeant!(1928)

1h 47min | Drama, War
2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

A 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.

Directed by Bruce Bairnsfather - With Hugh Buckler

A Couple of Down and Outs(1923)

An ex-soldier steals his horse to save it from the battlefield, and becomes a tramp.

Directed by Walter Summers - With Edna Best

Khaspush(1928)

1h 12min

The movie is about the suppressed revolt of "khaspushes", Persian peasants and craftsmen in 1891.

Directed by Hamo Beknazarian - With Hrachia Nersisyan, Avet Avetisyan, Tigran Ayvazyan, Hambartsum Khachanyan, Mkrtich Janan, Mikayel Garagash, ...

Shirt of Fire(1923)

1h 10min

Directed by Muhsin Ertugrul.

Directed by Muhsin Ertuğrul - With Bedia Muvahhit

Kif Tebbi(1928)

1h 35min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

A young Italian-educated Libyan nobleman is summoned to fight for the Ottoman Empire in 1911.

Dawn(1928)

1h 30min | War, Drama

A nurse helps 210 men escape to England before the Germans catch and execute her.

Directed by Herbert Wilcox - With Sybil Thorndike, Gordon Craig, Marie Ault, Edward Gordon Craig

His Master's Voice(1925)

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A loyal dog follows his master to the front in World War One.

Directed by Renaud Hoffman - With Thunder the Dog

Verdun: Visions of History(1928)

2h 31min | War, Drama, Documentary
3.7/5 (with 2 votes)

A 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.

Directed by Léon Poirier - With Albert Préjean, Maurice Schutz, Philippe Pétain, Suzanne Bianchetti

She Goes to War(1929)

50min | War, Drama
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

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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