Presented by Iowa Veterans for Peace in observation of Veterans' Day.

"From such grisly materials the popular cinema is rarely drawn. The film is monumental in the courage that risked its manufacture." — Time Magazine

Director Lewis Milestone's brilliant anti-war polemic follows a group of German schoolboys, talked into enlisting at the beginning of World War I by their jingoistic teacher. They are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat. An early talkie that dared to lay bare the tragic foolishness at the heart of war.