History Main / WorksSetInWorldWarI

** In ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E3SilverNemesis Silver Nemesis]]'', the Doctor and Ace confromts Nemesis, a silver LivingStatue created by Rassilon that passed in a comet of the same name every 25 years to the Earth causing destruction. And the first time it passed was in 1913, the eve of the WWI.

* Music/{{Sting}}'s 1985 song [[Music/TheDreamOfTheBlueTurtles "Children's Crusade"]] is set during World War I and compares it to the titular medieval conflict, nothing how by the standards of the album's time, the soldiers who fought in the former were ridiculously young.

* Music/{{Sting}}'s 1985 song [[Music/TheDreamOfTheBlueTurtles "Children's Crusade"]] compares World War I to the titular medieval conflict, nothing how by the standards of the album's time, the soldiers who fought in the former were ridiculously young.

** “Death or Glory”, a song about World War One fighter pilots.

* "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.

* Many characters, including ''Franchise/DocSavage'', ''Radio/TheShadow'', ''Secret Agent X'', ''Literature/TheSpider'' and many more from {{Pulp Magazine}}s, had WWI as part of their BackStory. Aviation pulps, such as ''G-8 and His Battle Aces'', tended to be set in this time period.

* ''Film/JungleCruise'', inspired by [[Ride/JungleCruise the Disney ride of the same name]][[note]]itself based on the aforementioned ''Film/TheAfricanQueen''[[/note]], is set in 1916 and involves a trip down TheAmazon to find a mythical flower that the English heroine hopes will help the war effort. A fictionalized version of Germany's Prince Joachim is the BigBad.

* The 10th season of Creator/MikeDuncan's ''Podcast/{{Revolutions}}'' covering the UsefulNotes/RussianRevolution partially covered the conflict from the Russian perspective.

* A very touching 2005 French movie, ''Film/JoyeuxNoel'' ("Merry Christmas"), is about French and British soldiers briefly fraternizing with German soldiers on Christmas of 1914.

* ''Film/TwelveDaysOfTerror'' which is BasedOnATrueStory of a series of shark attacks along the New Jersey coastline between the 1st and 12th of July 1916, one year before America joined the war. The war itself is not seen but it is occasionally brought up and one scene sees president UsefulNotes/WoodrowWilson who is on holiday in New Jersey giving a speech about keeping America out of the war.

* ''FilmTwelveDaysOfTerror'' which is BasedOnATrueStory of a series of shark attacks along the New Jersey coastline between the 1st and 12th of July 1916, one year before America joined the war. The war itself is not seen but it is occasionally brought up and one scene sees president UsefulNotes/WoodrowWilson who is on holiday in New Jersey giving a speech about keeping America out of the war.

* ''Film/TwelveDaysOfTerror'' which is BasedOnATrueStory of a series of shark attacks along the New Jersey coastline between the 1st and 12th of July, 1916 one year before America joined the war. The war itself is not seen but it is occasionally brought up and one scene sees president UsefulNotes/WoodrowWilson who is on holiday in New Jersey giving a speech about keeping America out of the war.

* ''FilmTwelveDaysOfTerror'' which is BasedOnATrueStory of a series of shark attacks along the New Jersey coastline between the 1st and 12th of July, 1916 one year before America joined the war. The war itself is not seen but it is occasionally brought up and one scene sees president UsefulNotes/WoodrowWilson who is on holiday in New Jersey giving a speech about keeping America out of the war.

* ''Film/AVeryLongEngagement'' is about a young French woman's search for her fiance, who was lost and presumed dead on the no man's land during the Battle of the Somme. We see the war told through some pretty graphic flashbacks of the other men he was stationed with.

* ''[[Film/TheTwentyFourth The 24th]]'' is a [[BasedOnATrueStory based on a real-life]] story about an all African-American US Army unit sent to Houston, Texas during the war to help build an army training camp. Instead, they face extreme racial prejudice from the local townsfolk and CorruptCops which eventually lead up to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_riot_of_1917 mutiny and then the riot of 1917]].

* ''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.

* ''Paschendale'', a song about the horrors of the Third Battle of Ypres by Music/IronMaiden.
* {{Music/Metallica}}'s song ''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''.

* ''Film/TheThirtyNineSteps'', 1978 spy thriller set in the run-up to the War.

* John Buchan's Richard Hannay stories, seminal spy thrillers that begin with ''Literature/TheThirtyNineSteps'', written in 1915 and set in the run-up to WWI. The sequels ''Literature/{{Greenmantle}}'' (1916) and ''Literature/MrStandfast'' (1919) are set during the War itself. In ''Greenmantle'', Buchan portrays Wilhelm II fairly sympathetically.

* Creator/HarryTurtledove has penned a YoungAdult AlternateHistory series called ''Crosstime Traffic''. Its second novel, ''Curious Notions'' (2004), is set in the late 21st century of a world where the Central Powers managed to successfully pull off the Schlieffen Plan and eventually won UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.

* 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.

* The 10th season of Creator/MikeDuncan's ''Podcast/Revolutions'' covering the UsefulNotes/RussianRevolution partially covered the conflict from the Russian perspective.

* ''Film/AceOfAces'' starts during World War I, with French pilot Georges "Jo" Cavalier having an air duel with the German pilot Günther von Beckmann. A young UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler watches them from his trench.

* ''VideoGame/NineteenSixteenDerUnbekannteKrieg'' is set in the trenches during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.

* ''VideoGame/1916DerUnbekannteKrieg'', an indie horror game where you are a German soldier being chased through the trenches of the Western Front by...[[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs velociraptors]]. [[SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds Much scarier than it sounds]].

* ''Film/JungleCruise'', inspired by [[Ride/JungleCruise the Disney ride of the same name]][[note]]itself based on the aforementioned ''Film/TheAfricanQueen''[[/note]], is set in 1916 and involves a trip down TheAmazon to find a mythical flower that the English heroine hopes will help the war effort. A fictionalized version of Germany's Prince Joachim is the BigBad.
* ''Film/TheKingsMan'' sees the formation of the Film/{{Kingsman}} private spy agency with World War I as backdrop.