
The Lost Battalion(2001)
Fact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of World War I.


“Without an enemy there can be no war.”
France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody no man's land that the French and the Scots dispute with the Germans…

Diane Kruger
Anna Sörensen

Benno Fürmann
Nikolaus Sprink

Guillaume Canet
Audebert

Gary Lewis
Palmer

Dany Boon
Ponchel

Daniel Brühl
Horstmayer

Alex Ferns
Gordon

Steven Robertson
Jonathan

Frank Witter
Jörg

Bernard Le Coq
The General
Joyeux Noel is a drama, war, romance, history film released in 2005 exploring themes of world war i, based on true story, opera singer, christmas, 1910s, trench warfare. Directed by Christian Carion, it stars Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet. France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody no man's land that the French and the Scots dispute with the Germans…
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