PATHS OF GLORY is among the most powerful antiwar films ever made. The story takes place in 1916 France, as the French command orders an exhausted unit to wrest control of an anthill from the Germans--expecting a casualty rate of 60 percent. The battle--during which the Germans are never seen, indicating that the French are .. Read more
| Starring | Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready, Wayne Morris |
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| Director | Stanley Kubrick |
| Genres | Drama |
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There haven't been many WWI dogfight movies since I dunno The Blue Max? A popular genre in the 1920s and 30s (you will recall Leonardo DiCaprio's Howard Hughes going for broke in The Aviator) it fell by the wayside after WWII for all the obvious reasons. You would imagine that the primary motivation to revive the genre today would be to reflect on current events in some form. But maybe not: Flyboys harks back to such unfashionable ideas about heroism and war, it might have been written in 1916 Read more