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You can watch All Quiet on the Western Front (1979) for free on Kanopy.

At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to bear, and as his friends die or become gravely wounded, Paul questions the sanity of fighting over a few hundreds yards of war-torn countryside.

The mud-soaked trenches of the Great War transform youthful patriotism into a hollow, visceral nightmare. This adaptation captures the crushing weight of industrial slaughter through the eyes of soldiers losing their humanity one shell at a time.

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