A faultless depiction of trench warfare and the misguided workings of the military mind, Winston Churchill deemed Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory to be highly accurate. | Stanley Kubrick

The Story Behind Kubrick’s ‘Paths of Glory’ Few realise that Stanley Kubrick’s 1957 war masterpiece Paths of Glory, starring Kirk Douglas, was inspired by the real ‘Souain Corporals Affair’ of 1915. During fierce fighting near Souain on the Western Front, repeated French assaults on German positions led to appalling losses. When the shattered survivors refused to leave their trenches for another suicidal attack, General Géraud Réveilhac demanded that his officers name those who had disobeyed. Tw

A memorable tracking shot follows Col. Dax (Kirk Douglas) in the trenches, then taking his soldiers over the top for the assault, in Stanley Kubrick's PATHS OF GLORY ('58). | Turner Classic Movies: TCM

"PATHS OF GLORY is a film for our time, and for every time since the industrial revolution. It is about that point at which human beings become worth less, not more…we don’t have to be the actual soldiers to understand what it’s saying about the actual value of human beings.” David Simon on Stanley Kubrick's PATHS OF GLORY: bit.ly/2KQLaIX | The Criterion Collection