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Key Battles of American History

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 - ENCORE)

Key Battles of American History

Key Battles of American History

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4.6936 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2025

⏱️ 105 minutes

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In this episode, James and special guest Sean McIver discuss the classic 1930 anti-war film All Quiet on the Western Front. Based on the novel of the same name, All Quiet on the Western Front set the standard for all future war movies, especially those which present war in a negative light.

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War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding

0:40.8

right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its

0:46.4

size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for

0:52.0

understanding American history. Welcome to key battles

0:55.3

of American history, a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens of the most

1:00.1

important battles of America's wars. Here is your host, James Early.

1:18.2

Hello, everybody. I wanted to say a few words before we get started with today's episode.

1:30.0

Longtime listeners of the podcast will remember that when I started the podcast back in February of 2021, the first 11 episodes were actually film reviews that I did with Sean McIver about a group of World War I films that we picked out. And since I'm doing a

1:36.0

World War I series now, and since in the last few years, I've moved into a routine where I'll

1:41.8

post a regular or battle episode on Wednesday and then sometimes a film

1:46.8

episode on Saturday. I thought I would do that same thing with this series. And I'm guessing that

1:52.7

since a lot of you have started listening to this podcast relatively recently, like within the

1:57.5

last year or two, you may not have ever heard these World War I film episodes that I did with Sean. So I'm going to rerun all 11 of them, and I'm going to

2:05.7

try to put them in appropriate places. For example, the one on, uh, all quite on the Western

2:12.3

Front is going to be first because it kind of deals with the whole war and then as we go through you know

2:19.5

what I'm talking about basically I try to put them where it makes sense where it pairs up well with

2:24.9

the regular episode that came out a few days before Sean and I are also going to do five or six

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