All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Drama, War • 2h 13m
Overview
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
Director: Lewis Milestone
Cast: Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy, Ben Alexander, Scott Kolk, Owen Davis Jr., Walter Rogers, William Bakewell, Russell Gleason, Richard Alexander, Slim Summerville, G. Pat Collins, Beryl Mercer, Edmund Breese, Ernie Adams, Marion Clayton Anderson, Poupée Andriot, Vince Barnett, Daisy Belmore, Glen Boles, Heinie Conklin, Yola d'Avril, Renée Damonde, Arthur Gardner, Raymond Griffith, Ellen Hall, William Irving, Frederick Kohner, Frank Leichtfried, Tom London, Bertha Mann, Joan Marsh, Edwin Maxwell, Jack McHugh, Maurice Murphy, Robert Parrish, Bodil Rosing, Wolfgang Staudte, Jack Sutherland, David Tyrell, Dorothy Vernon, Fred Zinnemann
Director: Robert Wise
Disney 4K Blu-ray, see caps https://slow.pics/c/hE3HUCdj
Disney 4K Atmos is great, a reference quality track. It's a very slight remix (music seems to be from a better source), but it's completely seamless and faithful to the original, better fidelity than anything since the 1994 30th Anniversary Edition LaserDisc.
All DVDs (and 2010 Blu-ray) sound far worse than the 4K Blu-ray/LaserDisc and have various missing sound cues.
Director: Robert Wise
Disney 4K Blu-ray, see caps https://slow.pics/c/hE3HUCdj
Disney 4K Atmos is great, a reference quality track. It's a very slight remix (music seems to be from a better source), but it's completely seamless and faithful to the original, better fidelity than anything since the 1994 30th Anniversary Edition LaserDisc.
All DVDs (and 2010 Blu-ray) sound far worse than the 4K Blu-ray/LaserDisc and have various missing sound cues.
Director: André de Toth
2D version: Warner Archive Blu-ray
3D version: Warner Archive 3D Blu-ray
2D version: Warner Archive Blu-ray
3D version: Warner Archive 3D Blu-ray
Director: André de Toth
2D version: Warner Archive Blu-ray
3D version: Warner Archive 3D Blu-ray
2D version: Warner Archive Blu-ray
3D version: Warner Archive 3D Blu-ray
Director: Sidney Lumet
2026 Criterion 4K Blu-ray
2011 Criterion Blu-ray is the best. Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has heavily filtered audio
Director: Sidney Lumet
2026 Criterion 4K Blu-ray
2011 Criterion Blu-ray is the best. Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has heavily filtered audio
Director: John McTiernan
Director: John McTiernan
Director: John Ford
Director: John Ford
1991 Warner Bros LaserDisc (for original mono track)
1996 Warner Bros 25th Anniversary LaserDisc has isolated music and effects track (incorrectly labeled "music minus vocals") not present on any other release
1991 Warner Bros LaserDisc (for original mono track)
1996 Warner Bros 25th Anniversary LaserDisc has isolated music and effects track (incorrectly labeled "music minus vocals") not present on any other release
Director: Alfred E. Green
Director: Alfred E. Green
Director: John Waters
Director: John Waters
Director: Nicholas Ray
Director: Nicholas Ray
Director: Lewis Milestone
Director: Lewis Milestone
Director: Lewis Milestone
Director: Lewis Milestone
Director: Lewis Milestone
Director: Lewis Milestone
Director: Lewis Milestone
Kino Lorber Blu-ray is much better than the extra in Criterion His Girl Friday Blu-ray. Even though Kino Lorber is the international cut and only restored in HD, and Criterion is the US theatrical cut, and restored in 4K, the Criterion picture quality is atrocious http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film5/blu-ray_reviews_68/the_front_page_blu-ray.htm
Director: Lewis Milestone
Kino Lorber Blu-ray is much better than the extra in Criterion His Girl Friday Blu-ray. Even though Kino Lorber is the international cut and only restored in HD, and Criterion is the US theatrical cut, and restored in 4K, the Criterion picture quality is atrocious http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film5/blu-ray_reviews_68/the_front_page_blu-ray.htm
Director: Lewis Milestone
Director: Lewis Milestone
Director: Lewis Milestone
Director: Lewis Milestone
Director: Vincent Ward
Director: Vincent Ward
Director: Tommy Wirkola
Director: Tommy Wirkola
Director: Ridley Scott
UK Universal 4K Blu-ray is missing Kino Lorber extras
Director: Ridley Scott
UK Universal 4K Blu-ray is missing Kino Lorber extras
Directors: Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Directors: Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Director: Brian De Palma
Director: Brian De Palma
Director: John Waters
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has poor encoding see caps but still a huge improvement over the 2014 Universal Blu-ray
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray Both the 2.0 and 5.1 tracks are improvements over the 2014 Universal Blu-ray
Theatrical cut is on the 4K disc, but the restored Director's Cut is only on the Blu-Ray disc. Director's Cut utilizes the same 4K transfer as the theatrical cut for 86 minutes, but the 6 minutes of restored footage could only be salvaged from a standard definition source and are thus needed to be upscaled.
Director: John Waters
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has poor encoding see caps but still a huge improvement over the 2014 Universal Blu-ray
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray Both the 2.0 and 5.1 tracks are improvements over the 2014 Universal Blu-ray
Theatrical cut is on the 4K disc, but the restored Director's Cut is only on the Blu-Ray disc. Director's Cut utilizes the same 4K transfer as the theatrical cut for 86 minutes, but the 6 minutes of restored footage could only be salvaged from a standard definition source and are thus needed to be upscaled.
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Edit History
12/24/2025
Best Video Release
From
While there are no screen cap comparisons, German Capelight Blu-ray has more versions than Universal: https://forum.Blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=20427635&postcount=63 The original film is 155 min but in the Universal restoration, only 133min was available (survived), and for Capelight Italian has - German 1930 dub (103 mins)- German 1952 dub (127 mins)- International version (133 mins)- New extended version (141 mins) with never before released footage from one of the German versions (+ 8 mins)- German TV versions in SD (tinted, silent)
From
While there are no screen cap comparisons, German Capelight Blu-ray has more versions than Universal: https://forum.Blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=20427635&postcount=63 The original film is 155 min but in the Universal restoration, only 133min was available (survived), and for Capelight Italian has - German 1930 dub (103 mins)- German 1952 dub (127 mins)- International version (133 mins)- New extended version (141 mins) with never before released footage from one of the German versions (+ 8 mins)- German TV versions in SD (tinted, silent)
9/20/2025
Best English-Friendly Release
Best Video Release
From
Universal BD. Capelight BD maybe better
To
While there are no screen cap comparisons, German Capelight Blu-ray has more versions than Universal: https://forum.Blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=20427635&postcount=63 The original film is 155 min but in the Universal restoration, only 133min was available (survived), and for Capelight Italian has - German 1930 dub (103 mins)- German 1952 dub (127 mins)- International version (133 mins)- New extended version (141 mins) with never before released footage from one of the German versions (+ 8 mins)- German TV versions in SD (tinted, silent)
From
Universal BD. Capelight BD maybe better
To
While there are no screen cap comparisons, German Capelight Blu-ray has more versions than Universal: https://forum.Blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=20427635&postcount=63 The original film is 155 min but in the Universal restoration, only 133min was available (survived), and for Capelight Italian has - German 1930 dub (103 mins)- German 1952 dub (127 mins)- International version (133 mins)- New extended version (141 mins) with never before released footage from one of the German versions (+ 8 mins)- German TV versions in SD (tinted, silent)
