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Films set in 1916

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Anastasia
1997 animated film directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman
The Color Purple
1985 film directed by Steven Spielberg
Paths of Glory
1957 film directed by Stanley Kubrick
Jungle Cruise
2021 film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
Days of Heaven
1978 film by Terrence Malick
The Lost City of Z
2016 film directed by James Gray
Dorian Gray
2009 British film by Oliver Parker
Three Amigos
1986 film by John Landis
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971 biographical film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Michael Collins
1996 film directed by Neil Jordan
The Admiral
2008 Russian biopic film by Andrei Kravchuk
Winter's Tale
2014 film by Akiva Goldsman
Secret Agent
1936 film by Alfred Hitchcock
Flyboys
2006 film by Tony Bill
The Red Baron
2008 film by Nikolai Müllerschön
Ace of Aces
1982 film by Gérard Oury
Goodbye Christopher Robin
2017 film by Simon Curtis
Theeb
Theeb ( ) is a 2014 co-produced by Bassel Ghandour period drama thriller film co-written with Bassel Ghandour and directed by Naji Abu Nowar. It is a coming-of-age story about a Bedouin boy, Theeb, who must survive in the wide-open Wadi Rum desert. The film takes place during the Middle Eastern theatre of the First World War, in the wake of the Great Arab Revolt against the ruling Ottoman Empire. The film used non-professional actors from the Bedouin community in southern Jordan, and is considered a "Bedouin Western". It has also been described as a coming-of-age film. Theeb is an internationa
Britannic
2000 television film
The History of Sound
2025 film directed by Oliver Hermanus
And Quiet Flows the Don
1957—1958 film directed by Sergei Gerasimov
They Came to Cordura
1959 film by Robert Rossen
For Me and My Gal
1942 film by Busby Berkeley
12 Days of Terror
2004 television film directed by Jack Sholder
The Happiest Millionaire
1967 American musical film directed by Norman Tokar
Bandido
1956 film by Richard Fleischer
In the Light of the Moon
2001 film directed by Chuck Parello
The Heritage of Love
2016 film directed by Yury Vasilyev
The Return of the Soldier
1982 film by Alan Bridges
The Cursed
2021 film directed by Sean Ellis
Verdun: Visions of History
1928 film
Kaalapani
Kaalapaani () is a 1996 Indian Malayalam-language epic historical drama film written by T. Damodaran and directed by Priyadarshan. Set in 1915, the film focuses on the lives of Indian independence activists incarcerated in the Cellular Jail (or Kālāpānī) in Andaman and Nicobar Islands during the British Raj. The ensemble cast includes Mohanlal, Prabhu, Tabu, Amrish Puri, Tinnu Anand, Nedumudi Venu, Sreenivasan, Annu Kapoor, Alex Draper, Sankaradi, and Vineeth. The film was produced by Mohanlal for Pranavam Arts in association with R. Mohan's Shogun Films.
Running Free
2000 film by Sergei Bodrov
The Mad Genius
1931 film by Michael Curtiz
Die Reiter von Deutsch-Ostafrika
1934 film by Herbert Selpin
The Choral
2025 film directed by Nicholas Hytner
Natascha
1934 film by Alexis Granowsky