War Movies Owe Everything to 'All Quiet on the Western Front' (1930)

If you asked a filmmaker or film critic what makes a great war movie, they might point to a variety of characteristics, such as humanizing the soldiers who fight wars, not sugarcoating the bloodshed and trauma that most wars involve, and criticizing the governments and individuals that wage wars in the first place. Indeed, many of the most acclaimed war films ever made - including Paths of Glory (1957), Platoon (1986), Saving Private Ryan (1998), and Come and See (1985), just to name a few - meet some, if not all, of these criteria.
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