Delbert Mann is the director of the 1979 version of “All quiet in the western front” movie and he is clearly a director that studied world war I very well as details ranging from extremely important to small minor details were included in the movie. The filming brilliantly captured the aspect of World War I and war in general. All the elements of the trenches were illustrated: the sand bags and trenches being in a curved shape like, huge rats crawling over and eating the unburied dead, the deep mud, the terror of poison gas attacks, machine-guns and artillery shells killing hundred of troops, grenades blowing limbs off, the loss of friends, amputations, death and destruction the war caused. In general, the troops uniforms and trenches were
