Probably lots of reasons.Alkarii wrote:On a completely unrelated note, I've noticed that it's not quite so easy to find movies/documentaries or whatever in regards to the first World War, though there's plenty of books. Why is this war relatively ignored compared to the second? It's quite common for a person to know more about the second than the first, yet the first created a lot of the issues that led to the second. Is there a way to get ahold of someone in Hollywood and suggest a big movie or something based on that war?
1) People still remember WWII. A few still remember WWI, but not many. The market for home movies is a recent thing, so it's mainly the children of the WWII veterans who have been buying stuff, and they're always hearing about "back in the war" from their parents.
2) A lot of people consider WWI to simply be a prelude to the "main event", WWII. Many of the changes that were brought about by WWI were undone or overshadowed by WWII a few decades later. WWII was followed by the Cold War, which was more nebulous and less glamourous and so didn't overshadow WWII.
3) WWII had a lot more media coverage of the type that can be made into movies. There were lots of people with movie cameras recording things in the 1940's compared to the 1910's.
4) WWII was bigger in scale. There's just more to talk about and more of interest to different people.
5) In the case of the US, WWII was the one where America itself was directly attacked. WWI was just "over there somewhere". WWII was more personal.