All Quiet on the Homefront

All Quiet on the Homefront is a 1930's war film on World War 1 that I watched freshman year.  It starts with a teacher of a high school class of boys who are about to graduate at age 18, the age they could enlist in the army.  HE gives a riveting speech to encourage the boys to go to the army and "save the Fatherland." The boys get very excited and enlist as soon as they can.  To their surprise the war is not what they had expected.  They saw hundreds of men dying and some of which were their friends.  This shows signs of being a true war story because this is the point where the boys innocence is taken from them.  Towards the end the main character returns home for a weekend and hears his former teacher giving the same speech to another group and yells about how bad the war is and then leaves home to go back into war.  The movie ends with the same young man almost getting stabbed by a soldier who he ends up killing, then noticing he dropped some kind of coin, and getting shot and killed when he reaches for it.  This movie shows that there is no uplifting ending to a war, after his all best friends and his own life are taken.