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'''The Western Front''':
British Tommies live in the hellish trenches, where it's always raining and the muddy ground is covered in craters. There's always an artillery bombardment going on. Mud, barbed wire, and rotting human flesh is everywhere. Periodically, the out-of-touch, over-optimistic [[
The Tommies are a mixture of salt-of-the-earth working-class rankers (enlisted men) and NCOs and upper-class officers. Officers are either absurdly naive [[
Only the [[Dead Baby Comedy|darkest]] [[Black Comedy|of comedies]] are set here, although there's plenty of scope for tragedy. A very few films substitute American "Doughboys" for the Tommies, though actually the Americans avoided trench warfare as a matter of policy (they already saw how bloody it was during [[American Civil War|their own Civil War]]), and were fortunate to arrive ''en masse'' just as things had started moving again.
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** A series of arcs in the [[Young Indiana Jones]] Chronicles T.V. series is set during The Great War and Indy even attends the signing of the Treaty Of Versailles with appearances by T.E. Lawrence, Adolf Hitler and {{spoiler|the future Chairman Mao!}}
* ''[[Blackadder]] Goes Forth'': A rare comedy set here, although it was far darker than earlier series. Well-known for an [[Tear Jerker|extremely touching]] and [[Downer Ending|sad finale]].
* Season four of ''[[Upstairs, Downstairs]]''. If [[Blackadder|Blackadder's Lt. George]] is the ''comedy'' version of what happens when an [[
* An episode of ''[[Fantasy Island]]'' featured [[Don Adams]] (in complete Maxwell Smart mode) as a bumbling school teacher who wants to visit WWI and ends up fighting the [[Red Barron]].
* A large portion of the immediate [[Backstory]] to ''[[Carnivale]]'' is set in the trenches, and it's [[Aborted Arc|heavily implied]] that the [[Balance Between Good and Evil|machinations]] of the [[Family Feud|two Avatara]] were major factors in causing this and other conflicts.
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