All Quiet on the Western Front
1929 Best Picture

100 Words
Are they young men or merely boys, these brave soldiers marching off to war? Based on the novel whose translation claims “Nothing New in the West,” these soldier boys fight real and imagined demons in the trenches. At the behest of Professor X (not really, it’s the glasses), they parade to the front only to confront death on a daily basis. Perhaps the glory of war is more like famine, shell shock, and sleepless nights and sometimes it’s the sight of a fallen friend. Almost 100 years old, the message is a tale as old as time: War is Hell.