History - World Wars: Animated Map: The Western Front, 1914 - 1918

Instructions Groups session 1 Groups session 2 The 16 Best World War 1 Movies To Watch It wasn’t long after the guns fell silent that the cameras started whirring on dramatising the Great War. For cinema, it was both an opportunity to take stories of the war to massive audiences and a kind of coming-of-age challenge: could the unfathomable scale and horror of what had just happened be captured with cameras and sound equipment that were all still in their infancy? As it happened, they could – and then some. Just as the war had driven leaps in technology, medicine, psychology and other fields, so World War 1 films drove cinema forward in ways that are still remarkable. Witness the battle sequences in Lewis Milestone’s All Quiet on the Western Front, the sheer scale of King Vidor’s The Big Parade and the realism of GW Pabst’s Westfront 1918. And here’s the rub: they’re still doing it. 💥 The 50 best World War II movies🔥 The 100 best movies of all-time