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The Blue Max (1966) brings a new complexity to the flying ace protagonist. 

Gallipoli sets a classic tale of innocence lost in war during the World War I (WWI) Gallipoli Campaign against the Ottoman Empire (modern-day Turkey).

“The Millionaires’ Unit” was a moniker given to group of wealthy Yale students who formed a private air militia in 1916. 

While the National Air and Space Museum Archives collections feature many WWI materials, the Paul R. Stockton Scrapbook is available to view online in its entirety in slideshow mode.  Stockton documented his experiences from training at Mineola, New York, and the Third Aviation Instruction Center, Issoudun, France, to life at the front in France, to the post-war occupation of Germany.

A Cold War era treatment of an earlier conflict, Paths of Glory explores injustice within the ranks during World War I.

The Eagle and the Hawk was one of the best World War I dramas of the 1930s. It explores the cumulative effects on those who fought in the skies.

All Quiet on the Western Front was the first significant anti-war movie, exploring the war’s physical and psychological impact on a generation lost to war.

Hell’s Angels is considered one of the three great early aviation films that defined the genre. 

After Germany invaded Belgium in August 1914, a British blockade to prevent supplies reaching Germany also isolated the Belgian people. The Commission for Belgian Relief (CRB), chaired by future U.S. president Herbert Hoover, negotiated delivery of food and goods to civilians living there. Among the items was thread to Belgian lace makers. The CRB managed sales and deliveries of Belgian war lace to people in the Allied countries wishing to support the Belgian population.

With male family members at the battlefront, wounded, or killed, French peasant women used their needlework skills to maintain their livelihoods and rebuild their war-torn communities. Thousands of American women volunteers in France, especially those associated with the American Committee for a Devastated France, sponsored them.