WingsWings
Two small-town rivals for the same girl become fighter pilots and best friends in the skies over WWI France. It won the first Academy Award for Best Picture.
War Epics
World War I as Hollywood filmed it, including Wings (the first Best Picture winner), Howard Hughes's Hell's Angels, The Big Parade and All Quiet on the Western Front, plus two documentaries made for the U.S. Army: The Negro Soldier and John Huston's Let There Be Light.
Wings
Hell's AngelsHell's Angels
Two very different English brothers join the Royal Flying Corps in WWI and are torn apart by war and by the same woman, with some of the most spectacular aerial combat ever filmed.
The Big ParadeThe Big Parade
A pampered rich boy enlists after America enters WWI, finds comradeship and love in rural France, and then faces the horror of the front.
All Quiet on the Western FrontAll Quiet on the Western Front
A class of German schoolboys enlists in the First World War full of patriotic fire and learns in the trenches what the war really costs.
The Negro SoldierThe Negro Soldier
Framed as a church sermon, this Army film traces Black Americans' service from the Revolution to World War II and follows a recruit through training.
Let There Be LightLet There Be Light
John Huston follows soldiers treated for psychological trauma at an Army hospital after World War II, a film the Army withheld from the public until 1980.