Poilu[s] (2023)
• October 3rd, 2023 • 0h 8min
Documentary
Overview
A young filmmaker is commissioned to write a documentary about the First World War. He tries to find a way to tell the story of the war. What is to be done with all these films waiting in the archives to be shown again? He tries his hand at different styles of writing and editing, keeping in mind the question: can you make a montage film without transforming the images?
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Fighting Fred Funston
Released on: 2017-04-01
Documentary, War
On April 18th, 1906, San Francisco witnessed its most devastating natural disaster – an earthquake t...
Takashi Miike : The V-Emperor
Released on: 2024-01-12
Documentary
Takashi Miike is a cinema monster. Let's return to his filmography, his main themes, the framework o...
in retrospect
Released on: 2025-02-19
Documentary
Immigrant workers build a shopping mall for the upcoming 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. In 2016, nine...
Three Days in August 1914
Released on: 2013-01-01
Documentary
Documentary on the atrocities the germans committed at the start of WW I in Dinant.
Cinema in the Land of Comrade Kim
Released on: 2024-10-12
Documentary, History
The love of Kim Jong Il, the former dictator of North Korea, for cinema and his adventures, includin...
Newspaper Train
Released on: 1942-11-15
Documentary, War
The story of how newspapers were distributed during the Blitz, stressing the importance of an accura...
Asunder
Released on: 2016-07-10
Documentary
Esther Johnson’s film uses local archive footage to convey the story of Sunderland's involvement in ...
Gallipoli
Released on: 2005-03-18
Documentary, War
The Gallipoli campaign of World War I was so controversial & devastating, it changed the face of bat...
Pershing's Crusaders
Released on: 1918-01-02
War, Documentary
Documentary on American troops in France in the First World War.
14-18: The Noise & the Fury
Released on: 2008-11-11
Documentary
Not everything has been told about World War One. This documentary tries to explain how tens of mill...
Cake Bakers & Trouble Makers: Lucy Worsley's 100 Years of the WI
Released on: 2015-07-20
Documentary, TV Movie
Documentary to mark the WI's centenary. Lucy Worsley goes beyond the stereotypes of jam and Jerusale...
The Pity of War
Released on: 2014-02-28
Documentary, History, War
Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrop...
Paris 1919: Un traité pour la paix
Released on: 2009-04-01
Documentary
The last shots had been fired in the First World War — but peace had yet to be made. Inspired by Mar...
Noble Sissle's Syncopated Ragtime
Released on: 2018-10-01
Documentary, Music
Combining footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era, this film tells the story of N...
Habito
Released on: 2023-12-08
Drama, Documentary, Family
Habito tells the story of a poor, fat black man in pursuit of his dream of being a filmmaker, facing...
Discovering Christmas Films
Released on: 2018-12-16
Documentary
Gathering for a Christmas lunch, the film critics and writers of Discovering Film discuss the merits...
Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution
Released on: 2017-10-10
Documentary, History
Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts all...
