10 Great World War 1 Films You've Probably Never Seen

10. Regeneration (1997)

Adapted from Pat Barker’s brilliant novel of the same name, Regeneration is a very different but no less harrowing kind of war movie focusing on the mental toll of the conflict for those involved.

The plot centres on a several British Army Officers brought together at Craiglockhart War Hospital where soldiers were treated for shell shock and other traumas linked to their experiences on the front lines of war. Blending fact with fiction, the psychiatric facility is home to real-life patients and famous poets like Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen as well as several other characters created as part of the story.

Game of Thrones star Jonathan Pryce takes centre stage as the real-life Captain William Rivers, the doctor and psychiatrist tasked with rehabilitating these damaged young men. James Wilby shines as Sassoon while Johnny Lee Miller delivers an impressive early performance in a supporting role.

A scathing indictment of the war and the treatment of countless young men, Regeneration isn’t always an easy watch but it remains a compelling and emotive one that serves as a remainder of the power of poetry and the futility of conflict.