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1930s War Movies

Public list by WPS with 62 movies or TV shows/series

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All Quiet on the Western Front(1930)

2h 13min | Drama, War
3.9/5 (with 321 votes)

A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I. Together with several other young German soldiers, he experiences the horrors of war, such evil of which he had not conceived of when signing up to fight. They eventually become sad, tormented, and confused of their purpose.

A Farewell to Arms(1932)

NR
| 1h 29min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.2/5 (with 53 votes)

A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley. Eventually separated by Frederic's transfer, tremendous challenges and difficult decisions face each as the war rages on.

The Charge of the Light Brigade(1936)

NR
| 1h 51min | Drama, Adventure, War
3.3/5 (with 30 votes)

In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.

The Eagle and the Hawk(1933)

NR
| 1h 13min | War, Drama, Action
3.4/5 (with 8 votes)

The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enemy.

Chapayev(1934)

1h 33min | Drama, History, War
3.3/5 (with 10 votes)

This film is based on the book about Vasili Ivanovich Chapaev (1887 - 1919) who was in real life the Commander of the 25th Division of the Red Army. Chapaev is an uneducated peasant and a decorated hero in the World War I and later in the Russian Civil War, that followed the Russian revolution. This man of action is fighting on the side of the poor people. His troops consist of peasants, just like him. Unable to write, he can brilliantly demonstrate various battle tactics by moving potatoes on the table. He is street smart. He never lost a battle against the experienced Generals of the Tzar's Army.

Directed by Georgi Vasilyev, Sergei Vasilyev - With Boris Babochkin, Georgiy Zhzhonov, Boris Blinov, Varvara Myasnikova, Leonid Kmit, Illarion Pevtsov, ...

Porky's Poultry Plant(1936)

3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

Porky is raising chickens, ducks, and geese. Many birds have fallen victim to the hawk, Porky's going to do everything he can to fight back. He takes to the air, but the buzzard calls in reinforcements; first they pull Porky's tail, then they bombard him with eggs, and finally they steal his machine gun. The birds toss the chick back and forth football style, but drop it; Porky recovers, and manages to take out the flock of buzzards.

Directed by Frank Tashlin

Dark Journey(1937)

3.2/5 (with 13 votes)

Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of espionage blends high adventure and romance making perfect order from wartime chaos and growing in faith from despair.

Boom Boom(1936)

8min | Animation
3.3/5 (with 7 votes)

World War I, apparently. There is a series of quick blackout gags, including a soldier that throws the pin...

Directed by Jack King

Outskirts(1933)

1h 39min | Drama, War
3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

Outskirts is an internationally renowned masterpiece of early sound cinema. In a remote Russian village during World War I, colorful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire, nationalism vs. transcendent humanism.

Directed by Boris Barnet - With Yelena Alexandrovna Kuzmina, Nikolai Bogolyubov, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Sergei Komarov, Mikhail Zharov, Nikolay Bogolyubov, ...

The Dawn Patrol(1930)

1h 48min | War, Drama, Action
3.4/5 (with 10 votes)

World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons about sending subordinates to their deaths.

The General Died at Dawn(1936)

1h 38min | Drama, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O'Hara, an intrepid American adventurer, with the mission of providing a large sum of money to Mr. Wu with the task of buying weapons in Shanghai to help end General Yang's tyranny that keeps an entire province under his ruthless iron boot.

Captured!(1933)

NR
| 1h 9min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest and dearest friend Digby has also been captured and put into the same camp with him. Fred longs for news of his wife, Monica, but Digby speaks little of her. Digby knows a secret about Monica, a secret he must keep from his friend, and it wears at his conscience so much that he attempts a reckless escape.

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Il grande appello(1936)

1h 25min | Drama, War

An Italian proprietor of a squalid Djibouti bar collaborated in selling arms to Ethiopians fighting his own country's invasion but after finding his long lost son on the Fascist front he decides to choose patriotism over selfish profit.

Elinor Norton(1934)

NR
| 1h 11min | Drama

A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her husband is off fighting WW I. Her shell-shocked husband finally returns. He is terribly jealous. To help him, the wife takes him to a Western dude ranch. Her lover also goes, and the two men soon become friends. The coffee magnate helps to cure him, but then breaks his heart by telling him that he and the wife are planning to run away.

The Thirteen(1937)

1h 30min | Adventure, War
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

The film tells about a band of demobilized Red Army men and two civilians who cross a Middle Asian desert. They are forced to do battle with superior forces of Basmachi rebels for the dry draw-well.

The Lion Has Wings(1939)

1h 16min | Documentary, War
3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis.

I Accuse(1938)

3.0/5 (with 10 votes)

After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in scientific research, seeking a machine to prevent war. He thinks he has succeeded, but the government subverts his discovery, and Europe slides with seeming inevitability toward World War II. In desperation, Diaz summons the ghosts of the war dead from the graves and fields of France to give silent, accusing protest.

Prometey(1936)

1h 23min | History, Drama
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

A film based on works and biography of the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko (1814 - 1861).

Directed by Ivan Kavaleridze - With Ivan Tverdokhlib, Polina Tabachnykova-Nyatko, Oleksandr Serdiuk, Natalia Uzhviy

The Burning Mountains(1931)

1h 42min | War

- No description / details available yet. -

L'île des veuves(1937)

1h 30min

During World War I, in Flanders, Berry and Trent were in love with the same girl, Yvonne. During a battle in the Widow's Island sector, Trent is wounded and abandoned by Berry. Trent being reported missing, Berry now has a clear path to marry Yvonne. Two decades later, Yvonne incidentally meets a tourist guide in the former combat zone region who looks fiendishly like - Trent.

The Hot Choc-late Soldiers(1934)

NR
| 5min | Animation
2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

A group of confectionary soldiers go to war against a neighboring cookie castle.

Directed by Walt Disney

The Girlfriends(1936)

1h 33min | War, Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Girlfriends Zoya, Natasha and Asya live in Petrograd. Before the Civil War, young heroines are aware of the social injustice of life. When the war begins, the girls are recorded by the orderlies of the working group to protect the Bolshevik Petrograd from the advance of the whites.

Militiaman Bruggler(1936)

1h 30min | Drama, War
2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

Chronicles the Alpine war experiences of young Toni Bruggler (Ludwig Kerscher), a Tyrolean-German member of the Standschützen (militiamen), comprised of those who are too young or old to fight in the Austro-Hungarian Habsburg army.

Kreuzer Emden(1932)

1h 25min | War

- No description / details available yet. -

Sons of the Legion(1938)

1h | Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Sons of The Legion is a film about a group of young men looking to start a squadron in their Legion Post. However, because the boy's father wrongfully received a dishonorable discharge after World War I, his father cannot join the Legion and in turn his son cannot join the squadron [wikipedia].

Directed by James P. Hogan

Pietro Micca(1938)

1h 26min | War, Drama

An 1938 Italian historical war film that portrays the life and death of Pietro Micca who was killed in 1706 at the Siege of Turin while fighting for the Duchy of Savoy against France in the War of the Spanish Succession.

Bosko the Doughboy(1931)

2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

Bosko is a doughboy in the Great War.

Directed by Hugh Harman

Five Scouts(1938)

1h 10min | War, Drama
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

An early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of propaganda produced at the height of the Pacific War. "A company commander calls on five men. They are to reconnoiter, but on their way they are attacked. Only four of them return. While his companions mourn the fifth straggles back. Soon after comes the order to move out for a general attack. The men know that this time there will be no returning." (Donald Richie)

Directed by Tomotaka Tasaka - With Isamu Kosugi

Tannenberg(1932)

1h 45min | War

- No description / details available yet. -

The Starry Squadron(1930)

1h 22min | Drama, War, Romance / Love

Polish war film.

Directed by Leonard Buczkowski - With Barbara Orwid
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