One of the most powerful anti-war statements ever put on film.

Rating: 10/10 (22 May 2010)

The film is considered a realistic and harrowing account of warfare in World War I. In 1914, a group of German teenagers volunteer for action on the Western Front, but they become disillusioned, and none of them survives.
All Quiet On The Western Front is a landmark of American cinema and Universal's biggest and most serious undertaking until the 1960s, this highly emotive war film, with its occasional outbursts of bravura direction, fixed in millions of minds the popular image of what it was like in the trenches, even more so than Journey's End (1930) which had shown the Allied viewpoint. Despite dated moments, it retains its overall power and remains a great pacifist work.