Films & Shows Set during Western Front (World War I)

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A period of history · War · about Military · Part of World War I

Films & Shows Set during Western Front (World War I)

Runs from191419184 years wide

Shelfmark Liber CXXXIX

World Wars Era

titles

6 films

4.0/5

average rating

across 6 rated titles

55%

of the span is tagged

6 of 11 titles set inside it

See Western Front (World War I) on the timelineEvery year from 1914 to 1918 the archive holds, and what is set in them

Compare the titles of Western Front (World War I) in the CanonsWhat every title on it shares, what two or three share, and what is proper to one

Inside this Archive

1914All Quiet on the Western FrontFilm · 1930 · set in 1914 · depicts c. 1916 – c. 1918

Unsalted

4.2/5 1914Joyeux NoelFilm · 2005 · set in 1914

Unsalted

3.7/5 1916Paths of GloryFilm · 1957 · set in 1916

Unsalted

4.5/5 19171917Film · 2019 · set in 1917

Unsalted

4.1/5 1917A Very Long EngagementFilm · 2004 · initially set in 1917

Unsalted

3.7/5 1917Sergeant YorkFilm · 1941 · initially set in 1917

Unsalted

3.6/5

6 titles · in the order the archive depicts them. A series counts once, regardless of however many of its episodes carry the tag.

Cinematic Introduction

Every title set during Western Front (World War I), by the decade it came out. A series is placed on the chart by its first season and counts as one title entity.

First on screen: All Quiet on the Western Front1930
Most recent: 19172019

1920s11930s11940s11950s1960s1970s1980s1990s22000s12010s2020s

FilmsSeriesAt the archive’s paceeach bar is the titles released that decade

The median title about Western Front (World War I) came out in 1981; the median across the rest of the archive, in 2004, so this period’s titles run 23 years earlier.

The gold dashes are how many of this period’s 6 titles each decade would hold if they had been released at the same pace as the other 285 dated titles in the archive. That measures the archive’s own collecting, not the world’s film output, and at these sizes one title moves a bar by a whole step.

Cast of Characters

The historical people the archive’s titles put on screen in this period, grouped by what they are known for. The number is how many titles set here they appear in.

Military1

Alvin York1887–19641 title

Historical Threads

A thread follows one event or historical theme across the archive, wherever and whenever it appears. Pulling a thread opens up a narrowed timeline view filtered to every year that thread touches.

Christmas Trucepull it on the timeline

Event

This thread has no description written yet.

filed under 1914

Joyeux Noel
Unsalted

Also runs throughWorld War I

Places Connected to this Period

Every place the archive’s titles set in this period name, with each one nested under the larger place it sits inside where that place is here too. The number is how many titles set here name it.

French Third Republic
- World War I Western Front5 titles

Saltiness Across the Period

No title set here has been given a saltiness score yet. That is unrated, which is not the same as accurate.

Archive Density

55%6 of the 11 titles the archive sets between 1914 and 1918 carry the Western Front (World War I) tag.

This measure can help illustrate cinematic hotspots within a time period by comparing which years of the overarching, actual historical time period are backed up by a cinematic release.

19142 of 4 titles set in 1914 carry this period
19150 of 2 titles set in 1915 carry this period
19161 of 4 titles set in 1916 carry this period
19173 of 6 titles set in 1917 carry this period
19181 of 4 titles set in 1918 carry this period

5 years on the timeline fall inside the boundaries. The filled part of each bar is the share carrying this period.

Drama6 · 35%
War6 · 35%
History3 · 18%
Romance2 · 12%

Share of the 17 genre taggings across 6 titles set in this period. A title filed under three genres is in three of these slices, so this is a share of taggings rather than of titles.

Credits

Directors

1Christian Carion1 title3.7/5unsalted 2Howard Hawks1 title3.6/5unsalted 3Jean-Pierre Jeunet1 title3.7/5unsalted 4Lewis Milestone1 title4.2/5unsalted 5Sam Mendes1 title4.1/5unsalted 6Stanley Kubrick1 title4.5/5unsalted

Films only. Co-directors are counted individually, so a director’s solo work and their collaborations are grouped together. Average saltiness ignores any title still unsalted.

Also on the Timeline

Part of and part of it are declared by the archive: one period counted as belonging to another, whatever their dates. Periods overlap freely so concurrent means the two spans share years, and the shared stretch is named. Bounded means it lies wholly inside this one, beginning and ending more than 10 years within its boundaries. Before and after are the nearest periods lying outside this one, with the gap in years shown instead. A shared thread is what the two have in common besides the calendar, and a period lying wholly outside this one can still share one.

Periods before, during, inside and after Western Front (World War I), with their year ranges, the years they share with it, the threads they share with it, and how many titles the archive holds of each.
Relation	Period	Runs	Shared years	Shared threads	Titles
Part of	World War I	1914–1918	1914–1918	Christmas Truce	11 titles in the archive
Before	Edwardian Era	1901–1914	1914	none shared	2 titles in the archive
Concurrent	Century of Humiliation	1839–1949	1914–1918	none shared	1 title in the archive
Concurrent	Indian Independence	1885–1948	1914–1918	none shared	1 title in the archive
Concurrent	Mexican Revolution	1910–1920	1914–1918	none shared	1 title in the archive
Concurrent	Russo-Turkish Wars	1568–1918	1914–1918	none shared	1 title in the archive
Concurrent	Arab Revolt	1916–1918	1916–1918	none shared	1 title in the archive
After	Interwar Years	1918–1939	1918	none shared	14 titles in the archive