The original “All Quiet on the Western Front,” released in 1930, was the third-ever Oscar best picture winner. Banned in multiple countries, including Germany, Lewis Milestone’s epic World War I film ...

Moby Dick (Warner). Like The Sea Beast, the silent version of Herman Melville’s story in which Barrymore appeared four years ago, this is a true moving picture, no less effective because a ...

The Virginian (Paramount). High on any list of famed moments in U. S. literature and drama is that scene in which Owen Wister’s hero, insulted by an epithet* which this cinema clearly records, draws ...

If you asked a filmmaker or film critic what makes a great war movie, they might point to a variety of characteristics, such as humanizing the soldiers who fight wars, not sugarcoating the bloodshed ...