Netflix has a great track record of releasing celebrated blockbusters and ground-breaking original series. The streaming giant drops exciting new films and shows every week that keep us glued to both our sofas and our screens.
One of its latest hits is war film All Quiet on the Western Front, which currently sits at number two in Netflix’s top 10 films, behind true crime-thriller The Good Nurse. Based on Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 bestseller of the same name, the film is a harrowing account of the harsh realities of war based on his own experiences in the German Army.
The film largely takes place in and around the trenches of the Western Front – one of the main areas of battle during World War I – and follows a young soldier who enlists in the German Army with his friends. Unlike many war films released in the West, All Quiet on the Western Front is told from the perspective of a young German soldier rather than an American or a Brit.
