All Quiet on the Western Front (Screenplay Adapted from the Original 1930 Classic Film): Based on the 1929 Novel by Erich Maria Remarque

All Quiet on the Western Front has been hailed as one of the greatest antiwar films ever made. It is more: it is one of the greatest films ever made. It was the fourth winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture (in 1930).

Based on Erich Maria Remarque’s classic novel, this film follows the journey of Paul Baümer, an earnest schoolboy who heeds his professor’s call to join the German army at the start of the First World War.

We see Paul as he confronts the town postman, now converted into a ...