The classic anti-war film of the classic anti-war book. The story follows a group of naive young patriots from school in Germany through the horrors of WW1 and their gradual annihilation in the trenches. As the angry, bewildered boys witness death and mutilation all around them, all ideas about "the enemy" and the "rights and wrongs" of the conflict disappear. This is highlighted in the scene where Paul mortally wounds a French soldier and then weeps bitterly as he fights to save his life whi find out more...

In 1840s New York Catherine lives with her physician father Dr Sloper. When Morris Townsend, a handsome but penniless young man, comes along and woos and wins his daughter's heart, Dr Sloper is sure that he is only after her considerable inheritance, and opposing their marriage he whisks her away to Europe. After Catherine returns to New York, the young lovers plan to elope but will Dr Sloper's threat to disinherit his daughter finally force Morris to show the money grabbing colours her fathe find out more...