Check out Sam Peckinpah's Cross of Iron. Its another German-focused WWII flick.

watch the old versions of 'all quiet' they are better imo.

also if you really like the film read the book it is very short.

Adding to my watchlist. Thx!

Check out Stalingrad (1993) and the older adaptations of All Quiet (both of these are far more closer to the book and also it's themes too). Another great anti-war film is Paths of Glory (1957) which is comparable to All Quiet in some ways.

If you haven't already seen it, Come and See (1985) is an absolute masterpiece.

I was going to mention Paths of Glory. That one kind of takes the cake.

I know it's not a movie but unsere mütter unsere väter is a pretty good television show from the German perspective In world War 2.

All Quiet On The Western Front (1930) by Lewis Milestone is an absolute masterpiece. Do watch it if you haven't already.

Try checking out the Human Condition trilogy if you haven't already seen it.

I am puzzled by the praise for All Quiet on the Western Front (2022). I found it a technically proficient film that lacked the pathos of the book and the previous movies. Das Boot is much superior.

Check out The Downfall too. It's exceptional.

Yes, two excellent German war films.

Letters from Iwo Jima is the Japanese viewpoint to Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers.

If you want a really subtle anti-war film about a fictional conflict, check out the original Red Dawn (1984).

WTF am I saying?

Watch the entire film. The "Wolverines" suffer 80% casualties and the only two survivors do so by running away. The "bad guys" aren't one dimensional, with the singular exception of zampolit General Bratchenko.

The one character who undergoes the most personal growth in the entire film is bad guy Colonel Ernesto Bella. He goes from being proud, to being disgusted with what he's become, and finally resolves to resign and return to his wife in Cuba. In the end, he lets Matt and Jed Eckert go, saying "Vaya con Dios" ("Go with God"), a strange thing indeed for a committed Communist to say.

Plus, don't even know if the US won the war at the end. The ending narration is ambiguous about the matter:

Erica: [closing narration] I never saw the Eckert Brothers again. In time, this war - like every other war - ended. But I never forgot. And I come to this place often, when no one else does. "... In the early days of World War 3, guerillas - mostly children - placed the names of their lost upon this rock. They fought here alone and gave up their lives, so that this nation should not perish from the earth."

The USA still survives, and the area around Calumet is apparently back in US hands, but that doesn't necessarily mean the USSR and its allies were completely thrown out of US territory, the only real way you can define a "win" when you've been invaded. Calumet was only about 40 miles behind enemy lines. USSR could still occupy much of the plain states and that ending narration would still be true.

Also, that particular ending was tacked on at the insistence of the studio, who wanted a "happy ending" unlike the ambiguous one John Milius wanted. He still managed to make it ambiguous.

There's a Das Boot tv series you might enjoy. I believe it's on Hulu in the United States.

Yeah it’s a decent war movie but it’s not All Quiet. Every single departure from the book was a poor choice and made the movie worse than it should have been. There’s a good reason Germans hate that movie.

And the Ascent, by the director of Come and See’s late wife. Both make for an excellent pairing of Russian war movies.

Though now defunct, you may enjoy the back catalog of the podcast, "Friendly Fire," in which the hosts watched hundreds of war movies and discussed them seriously (but definitely not too seriously).

The source of the subtitled Hitler memes

It's known as Generation War in the US.

It’s also by Eastwood