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All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)

All Quiet on the Western Front

Great adaptation of superb anti-war classic.

  • Nov 15, 2006
  • Feb 4, 2005

A Double Rarity: A Good Remake & A Good Made For TV Movie

  • Jun 19, 2006

Anti-War Movie From A Classic Novel.

  • Jun 19, 2010

Fine remake of classic.

  • Jul 8, 1999

Pretty darn good!

  • Sep 27, 2003

This is one of the best (anti-)war movies ever!

  • philip_vanderveken
  • Sep 15, 2004

Well worth your time

  • Leofwine_draca
  • Sep 26, 2016

Powerful and moving... the definitive anti-war war movie

  • TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews
  • Oct 30, 2004

Classic anti-war movie

  • Apr 10, 2022

A refined classic

  • donutheaven-59366
  • Sep 7, 2020
  • Apr 11, 2005

Not Quite on the Western Front

  • wes-connors
  • Feb 20, 2010

The greatest war novel of all time

  • Jul 20, 2006

Horrors of Industrialised War

  • The-Sarkologist
  • Dec 6, 2020

Very Effective Remake

  • Theo Robertson
  • Jan 20, 2010

Not bad, but not in the same league as the original 1930 film

  • Mar 24, 2018

A Review of "Western" Number 2 (The TV Movie)

  • happipuppi13
  • Aug 11, 2006

make no mistake...

  • Sep 2, 2000

A simply AMAZING movie

  • Il-vino-e-lacqua
  • Feb 19, 2010

Patchy Remake

  • Mar 24, 2010

Great anti-War TV Adaptation

  • Umar Mansoor Bajwa
  • Mar 22, 2020

Im Westen nichts neues

  • Sep 15, 2000

The abbreviated life of Paul Baumer

  • May 3, 2024

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Director Lewis Milestone's brilliant anti-war polemic, headlined by an unforgettable performance from Lew Ayres, lays bare the tragic foolishness at the heart of war.

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