History Main / WorksSetInWorldWarI

* ''VideoGame/WWIMedic'' is a freeware game where you control an Entente medic trying to tend to the wounded, and survive long enough to turn the tide of [[UnwinnableByDesign one more battle....]]

* ''Literature/NoMansLandTalesFromTheWeirdWars'' Created by members of Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom.

* The ''Literature/SwarmOnTheSomme'' series. A World War I equivalent of ''Literature/TheWarAgainstTheChtorr''. And quite awesome. Created by members of Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom.

* ''WebVideo/TheGreatWar'': An original weekly Website/YouTube {{documentary}} series recounting the events of World War One, starting in August 2014, exactly 100 years to the week of the war's beginning and continuing in RealTime through 2018. In 2019 the series reworked itself into lengthier, monthly episodes covering the post-war world with a new host.

* Jacques Tardi is renowned for depicting WarIsHell in several graphic novels, the most famous being ''It was the War in the Trenches''. His tendencies link the war to StrawmanPolitical and CorruptCorporateExecutive. The usual French point of view about the conflict.

* DC had ''Steve Savage, Balloon Buster'', inspired by real-life ace Frank Luke.

* ''Kasky'', or ''Tears of April'', a 2008 Finnish novel adaptation about a Red POW in the Finnish Civil War of 1918, the White soldier responsible for her, and the corrupt military judge in charge of her trial.

* ''Film/{{Trench11}}'' is a horror film set in late 1918 about an underground German bunker infested with {{Parasite Zombie}}s.

* [[/index]]UsefulNotes/ErwinRommel's ''Infanterie Grieft an'' (''Infantry Attacks'') recounts his experiences over the course of the war, from mobilization and the early fighting in France to the Carpathians and the Italian front. These experiences would shape his tactics in the next war.[[index]]

* ''Literature/{{Leviathan}}'' (2009) by ScottWesterfeld is a YoungAdult AlternateHistory adventure novel set in WWI, where the armies of the Entente Powers are aided by their {{Biopunk}} creations (like [[SpaceWhale flying sky whales]]) and where the Central Powers fight with {{Steampunk}} HumongousMecha. [[RuleOfCool And it's awesome]].

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* The poem ''My Boy Jack'' (1915), about the death of Creator/RudyardKipling's only son in the war.
* ''My Reminiscences of East Africa'' (1920) is General Paul Von Lettow-Vorbek's diary from his service in East Africa at this time.
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* ''The Razor's Edge'' (1944) by William Somerset Maugham features Larry Darrell, a World War I pilot who is wounded and traumatized in the War. He spends the rest of the novel searching for ways to adjust to the post-war life.

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* The short story ''Schwarzchild Radius'' (1987) by Creator/ConnieWillis features an extended metaphor of WWI as a [[UsefulNotes/BlackHoles black hole]].
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* ''Shout at the Devil'' by Creator/WilburSmith is a 1968 novel ([[Film/ShoutAtTheDevil and movie]]) about a private war between English poachers and a German colonial official in East Africa.

* The BBC's ''Series/ThirtySevenDays'' is a depiction of the July crisis resulting from the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.[[index]]

* The BBC's series ''Wings'' was about the lives of pilots and observers in the Royal Flying corps. Beginning in 1915, it focuses on the development of air combat tactics, the poor performance of British fighters in comparison to their German counterparts, and the changes in social norms that the war brought about.

* "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" by Music/EricBogle is about a young Australian soldier who is maimed at the Battle of Gallipoli. In another song by Bogle, "No Man's Land" (also called "The Green Fields of France" and what the Music/DropkickMurphys [[CoveredUp made famous]]) the narrator is reflecting on the grave of a young man who died in France during World War I.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llIQUqfljr0 This video]] to "A Small Victory" by Faith No More.
* "Paschendale", a song about the horrors of the Third Battle of Ypres by Music/IronMaiden.
** "Death or Glory", a song about World War One fighter pilots.
* {{Music/Metallica}}'s song "One".
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* [[Music/Nineteen16 "1916"]] by Music/{{Motorhead}} is a ballad from the perspective of a soldier fighting in it.
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* ''The War'' by Music/RunningWild is based on World War One.
* Swedish HorribleHistoryMetal band ''Music/{{Sabaton}}'' has several songs that deal with the horrors of the Great War, some of the best known being "The Price Of A Mile" and "Cliffs of Gallipoli". In 2019 they released an entire ConceptAlbum focused on the experiences of the war, aptly named ''The Great War'', and followed it with a second one in 2022 titled ''The War to End All Wars''.
* Music/TheZombies' song "Butcher's Tale (Western Front, 1914)" gives gruesome detail to the trench warfare, commenting on both shell shock and the strange dichotomy between "God and Country." "And the preacher in his pulpit / Sermons 'Go and fight, do what is right!' / But he don't have to hear these guns / And I bet he sleeps at night."
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxzg_iM-T4E "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron"]] and the sequel [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlf---13Q0g&feature=related "Snoopy's Christmas"]]
* [[http://www.antiwarsongs.org/canzone.php?id=2924 The Soldier's Sweetheart]] by Jimmie Rodgers.
* ''Christmas In The Trenches'', a song by John [=McCutcheon=], based on the true stories of truces between different groups of opposing entrenched forces on the Western Front on Christmas Day 1914, with the soldiers singing carols, exchanging gifts, and playing soccer in No Man's Land. (Though later years would see similar truces, due to high command on both sides being upset when they heard it, they were not nearly so widespread as before.)

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHeTQJuBYeE 1917]]" by Emmylou Harris and Music/LindaRonstadt is about a HookerWithAHeartOfGold trying to comfort soldiers about to head back into the war.
* Music/{{PJ Harvey}}'s 2011 album ''Let England Shake'' deals with WWI in an impressive way.
* "Remember" by Renaissance, a song about finding a (deceased?) old woman's letters from her soldier boyfriend/husband. It's implied, of course, that he never came home.
* "Common Ground" by Music/{{IQ}}, a neo-ProgressiveRock band.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHFO2FSxg_8 The Rose of No-Man's Land]]", about the Red Cross nurses who served on the front lines. This song dates from the war itself.
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* Rowan Software's ''Dawn Patrol'' was a DOS WWI flight simulator, roughly contemporary to ''Red Baron'' but not as well-known.[[index]]

* Several of the most realistic air combat simulations on the market are set in WWI, such as ''Over Flanders Fields'', where the player joins the squadron and side of their choice and continues to fly until their character is killed. And the sim points out that the objective is not to "win" but to survive the seventeen hours that was the average flight time of a new pilot.

* ''VideoGame/NineteenSixteenDerUnbekannteKrieg''[[/index]] is an indie horror game where you are a German soldier being chased through the trenches of the Western Front by...velociraptors. [[SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds Much scarier than it sounds]].

* ''VideoGame/BrassHats'' (named after a nickname for officers) is a turn based strategy game in the vein of ''VideoGame/NintendoWars'' in a surprisingly trenchless [[FantasyCounterpartCulture version of WWI]] fought between [[TheFederation the "Allied Forces"]] and [[TheEmpire the "Central Army"]]. Sadly, it appears to have been discontinued. However, [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes the demo]] is still downloadable for free, along with [[http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/maps/brasshats/map.html a few fan-created maps.]] [[index]]

* Franchise/SherlockHolmes
** Creator/ArthurConanDoyle's ''His Last Bow'', written in 1917 but taking place in England during the run up to the war, with Holmes attempting to deal with a German spy network in England.
** A series of novels and short stories by Robert Ryan (not [[Creator/RobertRyan that one]]) involve Dr. Watson returning to his prior job as an army doctor, this time on the Western Front. The BigBad of the above-mentioned ''His Last Bow'' also makes an appearance in one novel, seeking revenge when Watson becomes a prisoner of war.

* ''{{TabletopGame/Diplomacy}}'' is a board game made in 1954 about pre-WWI diplomacy.

* * ''VideoGame/AirConflicts'' while the series is mostly set in the second war, ''Secret Wars'' has flashback missions to the Great War.

* The 1941 Gary Cooper film ''Film/SergeantYork'' was [[BioPic based on the true story]] of Sgt Alvin York, a farmhand who became an American hero and earned its highest military honor, the Medal Of Honor, for an incident in 1918 where he single-handedly killed and captured over a hundred German soldiers.

* ''The Officers' Ward'' in 2001, about the ''"gueules cassees"'' ("broken faces" in French: war invalids and horribly disfigured men).

* The second arc of ''ComicBook/PrettyDeadly'' is set in World War I, and gives a fantastic explanation for it.
* ''ComicBook/FiendsOfTheEasternFront'', which was set during World War II, has a prequel called ''Fiends of the Western Front'', which follows Constanta and his Romanian vampire soldiers during the Western Front of World War I as he encounters an ancient bat-man AcePilot fighting on the German side.

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* ''Adama'', a 2015 French film telling the story of a young West African boy who sets off across Europe in search of his older brother, who's been conscripted in a French colonial regiment and sent on the Western front.

* ''Film/NineteenSeventeen''.

* 1970s British drama ''Aces High'', a very down-to-earth and touching portrayal of the lives (and deaths) of a regular squadron of fighter pilots.

* ''Capitaine Conan'' by Bertrand Tavernier, about the French corps in the Balkans.
* There's a little known 2004 independent film about American soldiers on the western front in 1918, called ''[[http://www.companykthefilm.com/ Company K]]''.

* The Australian film ''Film/{{Gallipoli}}''.

* ''I Defended the Young Bosnia'' (Serbian: ''Branio sam Mladu Bosnu''): 2014 Serbian movie about the Austrian lawyer Rudolf Zistler who did his professional best to defend Gavrilo Princip and other members of the 'Unification [of the entire Balkans under Serbian Rule] or Death' terrorist group. The story pointedly uses the larger social movement which 'Unification or Death' was a part of, the 'Young Bosnia Movement', and is centered around the KangarooCourt trial set by the Austrians while the war itself is looming in the background.
* ''Johnny Got His Gun'' (1971): A horrifying story of a young American soldier, who has his arms, legs and ''face'' blown off, leaving him blind, deaf, dumb and immobile, a living torso in a hospital bed, with no way of communicating until [[spoiler:he figures out how to tap the Morse code with the back of his head]].

* ''La France'' (2007), a somewhat surreal French film in which a woman disguises herself as a teenage soldier to find her husband at the front, ironically joining a squad of deserters en route. And it's (sort of) a musical.
* The 1959 Italian comedy/drama ''Film/LaGrandeGuerra'' (The Great War), the story of an AntiHero and a LovableCoward who become VitriolicBestBuds and try not to get caught in the slaughter of the trenches.

* ''March on the Drina'' (Serbian: ''Mars na Drinu''): 1964 movie about the Serbian victory against Austro-Hungarian invasion force in the Battle of Cer (fought in August 1914).

* The plot of Terry Gilliam's ''Film/TwelveMonkeys'' features TimeTravel and has several short scenes set on the Western front, and the war is also referenced by the PresentDayPast characters in the movie [[spoiler:because [[FishOutOfTemporalWater one of the time travelers apparently got stuck there and was acting suspiciously for that era]].]]

** A series of novels and short stories by Robert Ryan (not [[Creator/RobertRyan that one]]) involve Dr. Watson returning to his prior job as an army doctor, this time on the Western Front. The BigBad of the above-mentioned ''His Last Bow'' also makes an appearance in one novel, seeking revenge.
* ''Shout at the Devil'' by Creator/WilburSmith is a 1968 novel ([[/Film/ShoutAtTheDevil and movie]]) about a private war between English poachers and a German colonial official in East Africa.

* The Sherlock Holmes story, "His Last Bow" (1917), takes place in England during the run up to the war, with Holmes attempting to deal with a German spy network in England. [[spoiler:He succeeds]].
* ''Shout at the Devil'': A 1968 novel about a private war between English poachers and a German colonial official in East Africa.

* ''VideoGame/HistoryLine: 1914-1918'', an {{RTS}}, is one of the few dedicated UsefulNotes/WorldWarI games.

* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaBloodlines'' is set in 1917. Elizabeth [[strike:Bathory]] [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Bartley]] uses the souls of war casualties as part of her plan to revive Dracula.

* ''Shout at the Devil'', 1976 film about a private war between English poachers and a German colonial official in East Africa.

* ''Snoopy Vs the Red Baron'' takes place here, although the technology is... not quite the same.
* ''VideoGame/Trenches2021'': The game is set in the trenches in 1917.

* ''[[http://allaircraftsimulations.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=34411 Canvas Knights]]'' was originally a ''VideoGame/IL2Sturmovik'' GameMod.
* Origin's ''VideoGame/WingsOfGlory'', using the same engine as their earlier ''Strike Commander'', is set in a British aerodrome in France during WWI with an American volunteer pilot as the PlayerCharacter.
* Several of the most realistic air combat simulations on the market are set in WWI, such as ''Over Flanders Fields'', where the player joins the squadron and side of their choice and continues to fly until their character is killed. And the sim points out that the objective is not to "win" but to survive the seventeen hours that was the average flight time of a new pilot.
* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaBloodlines'' is set in 1917. Elizabeth [[strike:Bathory]] [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Bartley]] uses the souls of war casualties as part of her plan to revive Dracula.
* ''VideoGame/TheDarkness'' has a few levels set in an "Otherworld" where World War I never ended.
* ''VideoGame/NecroVisioN'' is a horror FPS set in 1917 on the most war-torn parts of the Western front. The game starts off fairly normal, but the protagonist soon discovers a {{Masquerade}} DarkWorld hidden (literally) under the surface of the war...
* ''VideoGame/IronStorm'' is a dystopian AlternateHistory FPS in which history diverged from ours during the late stages of WWI and the beginning of the Russian Civil War. It's the 1960s, [[ForeverWar the Great War has been dragging on for half a century]], Earth is a CrapsackWorld and [[WarForFunAndProfit war has become an accepted way of everyday life]]. Oh, and the game's BigBad is none other than a CaptainErsatz of the infamous baron UsefulNotes/RomanVonUngernSternberg.
* The events of ''VideoGame/TheLastExpress'' (an AdventureGame) take place on the threshold of the war, are heavily undertoned by and, arguably and implicitly, cause it.
* ''VideoGame/VictoriaAnEmpireUnderTheSun'' features World War One technology in its later stages and the possibility to spark the war, [[AlternateHistory create an alternate version of it... or avert it altogether]].
** While ''VideoGame/HeartsOfIron'' usually has its earliest start date in 1936, more than one of the games got a 1914 mod, and ''Darkest Hour'' version of ''Hearts of Iron II'' have an official 1914 start date.

* The ''VideoGame/IronGrip'' series, true to its SchizoTech PunkPunk feel, borrows a lot of inspiration from this era as well. The games can be seen as a LowFantasy [[RecycledINSpace retelling]] of some aspects of the war, coating the industrial war-torn grimness of the frontlines with a DarkerAndEdgier SteamPunk and DieselPunk aesthetic.
* ''VideoGame/CliveBarkersUndying'' is set immediately after the war. The protagonist, Patrick Galloway, is a veteran from one of the Irish regiments on the western front.

* In the ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberium'' series, [[BiblicalBadGuy Kane's]] [[StateSec Black Hand]] is suggested to be the very same organization that assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
* As testament to either the failings of the game engines or the sheer scale of how many mistakes and complex factors lead to the war, it is nearly impossible to recreate the circumstances of this war in any version of ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'' but it has been attempted on numerous public forums. Whether or not one agrees with this assessment, the important part is that one has to ''actively try'' to bring the situation about.
* ''VideoGame/CallOfCthulhuTheWastedLand'' is an indie tactical RPG mixing World War One with the Franchise/CthulhuMythos.

* ''VideoGame/SuperTrenchAttack'' (previously ''VideoGame/MedalWars'') is a Third Person RPG that has you playing a [[FantasyCounterpartCulture comedy]] version of it as a soldier of [[TheFederation the Green Army]] fighting against seemingly endless and hilarious waves of [[TheEmpire the Black Army]], and various other surprises.
* ''VideoGame/BrassHats'' (named after a nickname for officers) is a turn based strategy game in the vein of ''VideoGame/NintendoWars'' in a surprisingly trenchless [[FantasyCounterpartCulture version of WWI]] fought between [[TheFederation the "Allied Forces"]] and [[TheEmpire the "Central Army"]]. Sadly, it appears to have been discontinued. However, [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes the demo]] is still downloadable for free, along with [[http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/maps/brasshats/map.html a few fan-created maps.]] [[index]]
* ''VideoGame/ValiantHearts'' is set on the Western Front from 1914 to late 1917 (ending roughly when the USA enters the war). Notable for being a cartoony sidescrolling puzzle-adventure game and yet probably treating the war with more seriousness and respect than basically any video game for any war ever has.
* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' has a PlayableEpilogue that takes place in 1914, just after the outbreak of the conflict in Europe. It doesn't really come into play much, but [[spoiler: Jack]] can read a newspaper that also briefly covers the start of the war, with the journalist not even trying to pretend to understand what's going on, but noting that America has wisely decided to stay out of it and is even promoting peace by selling weapons to both sides.
* The 8-bit computer game ''VideoGame/BlueMax'' was an IsometricProjection in a WWI setting.
* ''VideoGame/Battlefield1'', the first entry in the ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}'' franchise to take place in World War I.
* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate'' has a short side campaign set in London during 1916. You play as Lydia, granddaughter of main character Jacob, and assist Winston Churchill in rooting out German spies operating within the city.
* ''[[http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-great-war-mod The Great War]]'' mod for ''VideoGame/NapoleonTotalWar'', which basically is about the European theather of World War One with the TurnBasedStrategy[=/=]RealTimeStrategy hybrid system of the ''VideoGame/TotalWar'' series, including some AlternateHistory features. While most of the factions are historical World War One belligerants (United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia, Belgium, Italy, Serbia, etc.)[[note]]USA isn't playable in campaign, but is available in skirmish and multiplayer mod[[/note]], some of the playable factions are historically neutral countries (Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, etc.). At campaign start, an option allows to choose whether the AI will try to stay true to the historical alliances or will go in full AlternateHistory mode. Also, winning the campaign requires that the country did far better in the war than it historically did (victory conditions for France or UK include controlling territories in the German heartland).
* ''VideoGame/EmpireEarth'''s German campaign covers both the first and second World Wars, the first focusing more on the Red Baron. It also has a [[TechnologyLevels WWI era]], notable for introducing airplanes and submarines.
* ''VideoGame/BritannicPatronessOfTheMediterranean'' centers around the conversion and sinking of the hospital ship Britannic.
* ''VideoGame/IronHarvest'' takes place during and shortly after an AlternateHistory version of World War One were mechs and powered armor were developed instead of tanks.
* The N64 game ''VideoGame/BodyHarvest'' opens with its first act in 1916 as the bugs invade Greece and secretly commence harvesting operations while the world is busy killing itself in the war.
* While not specifically set during the war itself, ''VideoGame/AmnesiaAMachineForPigs'' uses the specter of the war for all the horror it can; [[spoiler: Mandus's visions of the horrors of the 20th century, particularly his sons being doomed to die in the trenches of the Western Front, drove him to build his accursed Machine and infuse it with a fragment of his own soul to render down all of humanity into "product" by butchering them like pigs on a ''city-sized'' industrial scale.]]
* ''VideoGame/Vampyr2018'' is set in a London ravaged by the UsefulNotes/TheSpanishFlu during the last weeks of the Great War. The war is often mentioned in the cast's backstory and many characters served in it one way or another (in the first district alone, you encounter a man who suffered from severed burns in France, two {{Shell Shocked Veteran}}s from the trench warfare, and a widower who lost his wife during a German bombing on London); the player character, Dr Jonathan Reid, is an army medic who just went back to London from the front when he was turned into a vampire, and his sister Mary is a war widow.
* ''VideoGame/ShadowHeartsCovenant'': The game is set in 1915, and its events are kickstarted when German troops invade UndefeatableLittleVillage of Domremy, which just happens to be protected by our hero, Yuri. While most of the game's events happen far away from actual fighting, the impact of war is felt in several wartime difficulties, such as the inability to easily cross the English Channel. Some of the villains also plan to take advantage of Russia's weakened state as a result of its participation in the war.
** The original ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts1'' is set in 1913 and early 1914, and, while the Great War is yet to begin, it's alluded to several times. One of the villains is also revealed as a WellIntentionedExtremist, who foresaw the war, and wanted to prevent it. TheStinger of the game likewise confirms that "The Great War I" has began.