World War I inspired some cinematic masterpieces. Here are a few of them

But World War I, which took place from 1914 to 1918 with the U.S. joining the fight in France in 1917, changed the world and warfare forever.

The latest is a new film from Oscar-winner Sam Mendes . His “1917” opened Christmas Day. Nominated for three Golden Globe Awards, “1917” is personal to Mendes — the film is based on a portion of a story his grandfather told him about the war.World War I was so traumatizing that it was seven years after the conflict ended before Hollywood looked back at the horrors of the hostilities.

A young Gary Cooper gives the film’s best performance in his two-minute scene as an ill-fated young pilot with a penchant for a Hershey bar. The highlight of the film is the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, which Wellman rehearsed for 10 days with 3,500 infantrymen. Some 300 pilots were used in the film, with the United States Army Air Corps supplying planes and pilots.“Wings” also raised some eyebrows with a quick glimpse of a topless Bow, as well as for a scene with two men kissing.

Jean Renoir’s World War I masterpiece, of which Orson Welles once said, “If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be ‘Grand Illusion,’” was the first foreign-language film to be nominated for best picture. He became one of the most decorated Army soldiers, receiving the Medal of Honor for killing at least 25 enemy soldiers and capturing 132 when he led an attack on a German machine-gun nest. York insisted that Gary Cooper, who was 40 at the time of production, play him. And though he was 10 years older than York was during the war, it turned out to be perfect casting.

The battle sequence is harrowing. Shot on location in Germany, the trenches were made 6 feet wide — they were usually 4 feet — to accommodate the cameras. Kubrick later said, “For this sequence, we had six cameras, one behind the other on a long dolly track which ran parallel to the attack. The battlefield was divided into five ‘dying zones,’ and each extra was given a number ranging from one to five to ‘die’ in that zone, if possible, near an explosion.

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