How to Watch All Quiet on the Western Front

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The German-language film All Quiet on the Western Front has a surprisingly strong presence at the 2023 Academy Awards; the Netflix film is tied for the second-most nominated film with The Banshees of Inisherin. It's up for nine Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Foreign Language Film, and Best Cinematography.

The movie is an adaptation of a 1929 novel of the same name which chronicled the horrors of World War I from the perspective of a German soldier. The novel, by Erich Maria Remarque, is considered one of the greatest war novels of all time. The original film adaptation, released in 1930 in Germany and then heavily edited by Nazi censors, won Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, "When the book’s initial 1930 film adaptation, directed by Jewish filmmaker Lewis Milestone, was released in Germany, Nazis led by Joseph Goebbels set off stink bombs, released mice into the theaters and called the movie a 'Judenfilm' (or 'Jewish film'). Germany and Austria banned the film from being shown in their countries, and the public censorship campaign led the novel’s author, Erich Maria Remarque, to renounce his German citizenship (Nazis were erroneously labeling him as a Jew)."

The original film is available to rent or purchase on Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video, Google Play, and other platforms.

The 2022 film, directed by Edward Berger, stars Felix Kammerer as 17-year-old German soldier Paul Bäumer who is confronted with the brutal realities of trench warfar during World War I. It's now streaming on Netflix:

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