Pershing's Crusaders

France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody no man's land that the French and the Scots dispute with the Germans…

Runtime

1h 56m

Director

Christian Carion

Cast

Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet

Not everything has been told about World War One. This documentary tries to explain how tens of millions of men could have suffered the unbelievable toughness of life in trenches during the 4 year ordeal. How could they have accepted the idea of a sure death or injury while not being able to tell why they were fighting.

Runtime

2h 28m

Cast

Alexandre Astier

Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by sportsmanlike conduct, technical exactitude and knightly propriety, they have their own code of honour. Before long he begins to understand that his hero status is deceptive. His love for Ka...

Runtime

1h 46m

Director

Nikolai Müllerschön

Cast

Matthias Schweighöfer, Til Schweiger, Lena Headey

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

Runtime

1h 28m

Director

Stanley Kubrick

Cast

Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou

In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war he studies piano in Paris. One day his friend Jacques, also a musician and now a fighter pilot on the front, invites him to spend a few days in his family's empty house in Bray. The housekeeper, a beautiful stoic woman lets Julien in, bu...

Runtime

1h 30m

Director

André Delvaux

Cast

Anna Karina, Mathieu Carrière, Roger Van Hool