A HAMPSHIRE village is set to host its own Great War film festival, with exhibitions and films devoted to the topic.

On Saturday, March 28 East Meon Village Hall will be transformed into a journey through time, with three films featuring the First World War.

There will also be an exhibition of the history of East and West Meon.

At 1.30pm the 1930 pioneering American film All Quiet on the Western Front will grace the screen. It follows a group of German schoolboys who were talked into enlisting by their teacher at the start of the war. This film established the popular image of trench warfare and it remains a powerful pacifist work.

It is followed by Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory, 1957, at 4.30pm, which portrays a mutiny by French soldiers who refused to take part in a suicidal attack. It was banned in France until 1965, but established Kubrick as one of the great directors.

The final film Lawrence of Arabia, 1962, shows at 7.30pm, starring Peter O’Toole as the maverick English scholar who, almost single-handedly, turned the tide of war in the Middle East.

The films will be introduced by Peter Sargent, previously a curator at the National War Museum, who has collected the films for the festival.

Doors will open in East Meon Village Hall at 12.30pm, and an exhibition of the history of the Great War in the two villages will be on display.

It includes accounts of the two Langrish Victoria Crosses and of three West Meon men killed on the one day just two months from the Armistice.

Refreshments will be available all day, and in the evening there will be a bar and ice creams.

Tickets for each film are available (£5 each or £12 for all three) at One Tree Books in Petersfield and at West and East Meon Stores.