In Flanders Fields: WWI British Dramas
English or Australian films and programs set during World War One.
Behind the scenes books:
Behind the scenes books:
- Masterpiece Theatre: A Celebration of 25 Years of Outstanding Television - by Terrence O'Flaherty (behind the scenes of many UK series, including Upstairs, Downstairs and The Duchess of Duke Street)
- Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty, 1485-1917 - by Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Rowan Atkinson and John Lloyd
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- StarsEddie RedmayneClémence PoésyMatthew GoodeAs an English soldier fights in the horrific trenches of northern France, he is haunted by the memories of his forbidden love affair with a French woman.
- CreatorJohn HawkesworthStarsGemma JonesVictoria PlucknettJohn WelshLouisa Trotter works her way up from being a skivvy to being the queen of cooks, cook to the King, and owner of the Bentinck Hotel. Her life and happenings among the guests and staff of the hotel make up the 31 episodes.
- StarsClaire SkinnerEdward AttertonAnne ReidAgnes manages family affairs on eve of WWI, helps sister Jessie marry across class lines. Faces own class divide when courted by Charles despite parents' disapproval. Her heart torn between Charles and his soldier brother Reginald.
- CreatorJulian FellowesStarsHugh BonnevillePhyllis LoganElizabeth McGovernA chronicle of the lives of the British aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the early twentieth century.
- StarsRowan AtkinsonTony RobinsonStephen FryStuck in the middle of World War I, Captain Edmund Blackadder does his best to escape the banality of the war.
- StarsCatherine Zeta-JonesLloyd OwenRalph InesonTale of a farmer's son who gets involved with two sisters, then goes to fight in the trenches in WW1.
- StarsBenedict CumberbatchRebecca HallRoger AllamRevolves around a love triangle between a conservative English aristocrat, his mean socialite wife and a young suffragette.
- StarsJack DavenportDavid HoweyJanet DaleSet in 1913 Northumbria, England, the story is about Robert Bradley, a strong-willed young worker at a Jarrow shipyard, who arrives home one day to find that his father has died. That leads to a total new set of circumstances in his life.
- CreatorAndrew DaviesKate BrookeStarsRon CookJeremy PivenTom Goodman-HillCenters on the real-life story of the flamboyant and visionary American founder of Selfridge's, London's department store.
- DirectorBrian KirkStarsDavid HaigDaniel RadcliffeKim CattrallAuthor Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 18-year-old son after he goes missing during World War I.
- DirectorStephen PoliakoffStarsDaniel WilliamsMatthew James ThomasBrock Everitt-ElwickBased on the story of a British royal Prince locked away because of epilepsy.
- CreatorEileen AtkinsStarsGordon JacksonDavid LangtonJean MarshThe lives and fortunes of the Bellamy family and their below-stairs servant staff at 165 Eaton Place play out against the social, political and historical backdrop of Edwardian London from 1903 to 1930.
- StarsGillian BargeNicholas JonesSimon Russell BealeAnthony Powell's twelve volume novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time" has been dramatized for television.
- StarsCheryl CampbellEmrys JamesJane WenhamVera Brittain's world falls to pieces around her as, one by one, the young men of her circle are caught up in the Great War.
- DirectorAndy De EmmonyStarsBen ChaplinPatrick FitzSymonsJulian Rhind-TuttBased on the remarkable true story of a satirical newspaper published on the front lines of World War One, this poignant yet comedic drama revels in the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming adversity.
- StarsHermione NorrisOona ChaplinRichard RankinDuring the First World War, Kitty Trevelyan tries to put the past troubles behind her as she joins two other girls to volunteer at one of the busy war hospitals in northern France.
- DirectorJames KentStarsAlicia VikanderKit HaringtonTaron EgertonA British woman recalls coming of age during World War I - a story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times.
- StarsChristine McKennaRosalie WilliamsSteven GrivesIn the early 1900's in England, young Christina is orphaned and goes to live with her Uncle Russell, and two cousins. Christina finds herself struggling with classicism and during War must keep the Flambards afloat by herself.
- DirectorGillies MacKinnonStarsJonathan PryceJames WilbyJonny Lee MillerBased on Pat Barker's novel of the same name, "Regeneration" tells the story of soldiers of World War One sent to an asylum for emotional troubles. Two of those soldiers are England's most important WW1 poets.
- During World War I, Percy Toplis, a deserter from the British Army, plays a major role in the Étaples Mutiny in September 1917.
- StarsGeorgia FloodAntonia PrebbleLaura BrentThe true stories of extraordinary young women who witness the brutality and heroism of war and rise to meet the challenge.
- StarsPatrick GibsonJack LowdenHubert BurtonAn epic historical drama spanning the five years of the First World War, as seen through the eyes of two ordinary young soldiers.
- DirectorPeter WeirStarsMel GibsonMark LeeBill KerrTwo Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.
- StarsKodi Smit-McPheeHarry GreenwoodSam ParsonsonFour young Australian boys join the military and are sent to Gallipoli.
- StarsSam WorthingtonHugh DancyJoel JacksonFour war correspondents accompany troops during WWI and narrate the story of the Gallipoli campaign, an attempt by British and French troops to attack the Ottoman Empire.
- StarsAlex JenningsJoss AcklandIan BannenFour-part drama about a writer recruited into espionage work by British intelligence during the First World War. Based on the writings of Somerset Maugham.
- StarsColin FirthJohn CastleGillian BevanIn 1913, young Richard Herncastle joins his Uncle Nick's magic act and is introduced to the enchanted world of the British music hall. Travelling from one city to the next, assisting at conjuring acts and disappearing acts, Richard comes to know romance, politics, and high adventure. The next year, in a true and terrifying vanishing act, the guns of August blast away that world forever.
- DirectorRachel WardStarsMarie BunelDan SpielmanJulia ZemiroBased on the novel, Silent Parts, by John Charalambous, An Accidental Soldier is about an Australian soldier who flees the carnage of the Western Front and finds refuge with a French woman in a remote farmhouse. Harry Lambert is a shy, thirty five year old Australian soldier, working as a baker behind the lines. He is a gentle man, a reluctant soldier, but a man like many who has been shamed by his local community into joining up. But when he is called into the front line Harry decides to run, finding refuge in a farmhouse owned by Colombe Jacotot, a Frenchwoman in her forties whose husband has abandoned her and whose son has recently been killed. Forced to work in an ammunitions factory, Colombe too is trenchant about the war. Through her Harry will learn true courage. Through him Colombe will learn beauty. Together they will discover a love so strong that each is willing to give their life for it. An accidental soldier is a tender, at times gripping love story between two people who find passion, in all its joy and hurt, at an age when they thought love has passed them by. It is a story of unexpected bravery of countless men and women who would not give up their lives for abstracts like glory, or country. Those who wanted to live for love and life.
- DirectorTony BillStarsJames FrancoJean RenoJennifer DeckerThe adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.
- DirectorIan RhodesStarsRichard CambridgeDavid EastLaura PatchA most evocative film of love, war and death in a small community in England during 1914-1918. The loss of a best friend and a father to be and how the mother son and friend all cope in the aftermath. Beautifully portrayed and photographed.
- StarsOlivia ColmanRosalind MarchAlison SteadmanThrough diaries, letters and memoirs, this documentary shows how the Great War transformed the lives of regular British citizens. Historical footage as outstanding actors reenact first-hand accounts found in Britain.
- DirectorGarin HovannisianAlec MouhibianStarsSimon AbkarianAngela SarafyanSam PageExactly 100 years after the Armenian Genocide, a theatre director stages a play to bring the ghosts of the past back to life.
- StarsSam NeillMichael BryantNorman RodwayA dramatization of the missions and adventures of the greatest spy in British history.
- StarsAndrew ClarkePaul HoganJon BlakeThe lives of a dozen Australian soldiers who served in the ANZACs. Fighting first at Gallipoli in 1915, then on the Western Front for the remainder of WWI, it's the story of the hardships, camaraderie and casualties of war.
- StarsIdo DrentEsther StephensGareth WilliamsThe story follows a New Zealand family at the outbreak of WWI, from optimism to despair as war's toll mounts. It chronicles their experiences on the homefront and battlefields of Gallipoli and Egypt.
- CreatorPeter MoffatStarsDavid RyallMaxine PeakeJohn SimmFollows the residents of one English village across the 20th century and their turbulent lives.