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

This little gem of a British war film is well worth a watch, not least for the fact it features a whole glut of up-and-coming stars. At the heart of the action is a fresh-faced Daniel Craig as the battle-hardened Sergeant Winter, the leader of a platoon of fresh-faced young soldiers ill-equipped for fighting in the trenches.

Set on the eve of a massive battle, much of the focus rests on Paul Nicolls’s character Billy Macfarlane, a patriotic volunteer torn between fear, restlessness and creeping sense of panic at what lies ahead.

Set in the grim and atmospheric wasteland of the Western front, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw and Danny Dyer all feature among the fresh-faced recruits facing almost unsurmountable odds.

They all combine to create a tapestry of the soldiers that filled countless trenches during the conflict. Soldiers torn between a sense of duty and the knowledge they face near certain death. The Trench is an emotional portrait of young men facing an unimaginable fate and serves as a stark reminder of the senselessness that underpinned so much of the First World War.