Netflix's Oscar-nominated epic All Quiet on the Western Front tells the story of World War I from the losing, German perspective, showing the "Great War" as unheroic, muddy, bloody and brutish. The filmmakers drew on the original 1929 German novel by Erich Maria Remarque and two earlier film adaptations which, together, helped change our vision of war in popular culture. On this episode of Arts Unveiled we explore How All Quiet on the Western Front changed the way film depicts war and the obstacles including Nazi censorship faced by writers and filmmakers.

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00:00 Intro
01:26 The start of the war
03:33 The history behind the book
05:40 The first movie adaptation
06:45 The portrayal of war in the new movie
09:24 The Nazi censorship
10:54 The second US version
11:33 Differences Between Book and Film
13:39 There are no winners in war
15:04 Outro

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