Westfront 1918 [Criterion Collection] [DVD] [1930]

G. W. Pabst brought the war movie into a new era with his first sound film, a mercilessly realistic depiction of the nightmare that scarred a generation, in the director s native Germany and beyond. Digging into the trenches with four infantrymen stationed in France in the final months of World War I, Pabst illustrates the harrowing ordeals of battle with unprecedented naturalism, as the men are worn away in body and spirit by firefights, shelling, and the disillusion that greets them on the home front. Long unavailable, the newly restored Westfront 1918 is a visceral, sobering antiwar statement that is as urgent today as when it was made.

This box set features all 8 episodes of the gripping mini-series, telling the dramatic true story of the FBI's hunt for the deadliest serial bomber in history, and the criminal profiler who pioneered the use of forensic linguistics to identify and ultimately capture the Unabomber.