CDs:
- The Great War: An American Musical Fantasy
- Oh! It's a Lovely War: Songs and Sketches of the Great War (Vol. 1-4)
Songs:
- It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary (1914)
- I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be a Soldier (1914)
- America, I Love You (1915)
- There's a Long, Long Trail (1915)
- Over There (1917)
- The Last Long Mile (1918)
FirstWorldWar.com has playlists for each year of the war and information about many of the popular songs.
Films
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
- Oh! What a Lovely War (1969 - background on the film)
- Johnny Got His Gun (Amazon Instant Video) (1971)
Documentaries:
- "The Great War" (26 episodes, 17 hours)
Books
UPPER ELEMENTARY - MIDDLE SCHOOL
- The Steamboat Shuffle by Michael Capek
- After the Dancing Days by Margaret Rostkowski
- The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
- In Flanders Fields: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae by Linda Granfield
HIGH SCHOOL - ADULT
Nonfiction:
- Our Times, Vol. 4: The War Begins, 1909-1914 by Mark Sullivan
- Our Times, Vol. 5: Over Here, 1914-1918 by Mark Sullivan
- The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932 by W.E. Leuchtenburg (1958)
- The End of American Innocence: The First Years of Our Own Time, 1912-1917 by Henry F. May (1964)
- Words That Won the War: The Story of the Committee on Public Information, 1917-1919 by James Mock and Cedric Larson - fascinating reading! (free here)
Historical Fiction:
- Company K by William March
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- Fix Bayonets! by John William Thomason
- Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos
- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- Chevrons by Leonard H. Nason
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