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I recommend "Paths Of Glory" if you get the chance to see it. It may be one of the two best anti-war film ever made, it's certainly one of the two best I've seen. It's set in World war I, was made in 1957 and, as Gareth says, was banned in France for eighteen years because they thought it showed their high command in a bad light. Which it did, and the book on which it was based is said to have been loosely based on a true story.

The incidents that are related were at the time of the Battle of Verdun, which, coincidentally, is featured in the other great classic anti-war film, Renoir's "La Grande Illusion" (also highly recommended).

[QUOTE="BrianH, post: 2069009, member: 64960"] I recommend [i]"Paths Of Glory"[/i] if you get the chance to see it. It may be one of the two best anti-war film ever made, it's certainly one of the two best I've seen. It's set in World war I, was made in 1957 and, as Gareth says, was banned in France for eighteen years because they thought it showed their high command in a bad light. Which it did, and the book on which it was based is said to have been loosely based on a true story. The incidents that are related were at the time of the Battle of Verdun, which, coincidentally, is featured in the other great classic anti-war film, Renoir's [i]"La Grande Illusion"[/i] (also highly recommended). [/QUOTE]

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