Unlike most "message" films which date themselves almost immediately, Lewis Milestone's low-key unpolished and deeply-felt screen adaptation of the Erich Maria Remarque anti-war novel has lost little of its original impact. The plot follows a group of young German recruits in World War I through their passage from idealism to disillusionment. Contains restored footage.
October 2, 1918, American trops were surrounded by German trops in the Argonne Forest. They managed to hold them off for 5 days until they were rescued without food or water.
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