PATHS OF GLORY Clip - "Execution" (1957) Stanley Kubrick

[@nunchucknads3644]

My French great grandfather (from Normandy) served in the expeditionary force in Turkey (along with Brits, Aussies, New Zealanders). He was a farmer by trade and returned home after years of battles, broken. He became a gardener, tending gardens of neighbors in his village willing to help out a vet. A few years later he passed away from kidney disease due to alcoholism. This is what wars do. Wars pile up the bodies long after the wars officially end.

[@hiiamrick]

My Great, Great grand father served on the battle fields of France in WWI. He survived only to be hung in America. Seems a white mob did not like him wearing his uniform he eared in France. A black American veteran murdered.

[@georgesingleton3425]

Gallipoli campaign?

[@outthere9370]

Yes. War is a disgusting thing!

[@quakerjohn44]

@@outthere9370 it is indeed, but sometimes a necessary evil.

[@hiiamrick]

@@outthere9370 Especially for those that do the fighting. While the cowards that are always calling for war. Sit on their fat @$$. While others do the fighting and dying. I remember Trump calling our fallen losers and suckers,

[@Vtwin60]

A great movie that really captured the mentality of the men in charge of ww1. Paths of Glory should be listed more as an all time classic. Much more so than some others played continuously

[@mjograus8800]

I totally agree. Further more this film captures the French Commanders' policy of shooting soldiers for no other reason than , ‘POUR ENCOURAGER LES AUTRES’. To encourage or deter the others.

[@hiiamrick]

@@mjograus8800 YEP they still honor Birth of a Nation.

[@mdteletom1288]

I would prefer it not run continuously; then it would lose its impact.

[@donaldturcotte]

Execute the leaders .

[@Juanhop]

I find Gallipolli also gets that spirit.

[@ednguyen3822]

True artistry, allowed to unfold at a natural pace. You don’t see filmmaking like this much anymore.

[@Kelly14UK]

Always felt sorry for these 3, and disgusted at the backwards mentality high command had for them .

[@rrock2025]

You don't see comments like this much anymore.

[@adamgrog9614]

this scene would all be CGI if made today..

[@hillcresthiker]

Thats because we lost Stanley Kubrick, the greatest director in the history of film,

[@stevepd1]

Really? Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe doesn't cut it for you? Me neither. I agree with you.

[@williamcrowe2576]

To have your own men executed under false charges just to save face from a failed mission due to your own bungling, it makes you just as bad as the enemy if not worse.

[@jeffsmith2022]

Much worse...

[@Carandini]

A man of integrity, knowing what was happening, would have walked over and put a bulletg through the skulls of those general officers. Your own life is over at that point, but you've removed a couple of warts from the ass of the world.

[@509Gman]

The enemy just wants to kill you. Your officers try to convince you that they are looking out for you first.

[@neilstaig1172]

Far, far worse. This is treachery, cowardice, deceit. And murder.

[@sebathadah1559]

It's France. Go figure.

[@Akula114]

As a child I watched this scene and had the realization that this wasn't real like the television news. It was crafted and turned into a dramatic piece with actors playing roles. That is the moment I decided I wanted to create movies myself. Now, over 50 years later I look back at a career in film and television production with some good degree of satisfaction. I worked with creative people giving life to a script, experienced tremendous challenges and rewards. I learned how to accept both failure and success with grace and a level head. I will always be in debt to Stanley Kubrick for opening my eyes to the miraculous world of cinema. There is no better form of communicating the complexities of life, the depth of wonder our hearts experience and the emotional highs and lows of our earthly existence. Often we are stirred to a breakthrough in our deepest spiritual journey and sometimes we just get to enjoy a good laugh - probably the most cleansing and invigorating diversion in times of loss or need. To all who have enjoyed making the impossibly wide array of film experiences come to life, whether in compelling stories of achievement or loss, sadness or laugher, I commend you. Like the storyteller singing songs by a campfire, the priest retelling the creation story of his people and even cave paintings depicting a successful hunt, you keep the fraternal framework of the human experience alive and growing. There is no greater calling. Thank you.

[@bobjackson6524]

Beautifuly put sir. 🙏

[@GaryM67-71]

Utter drivel, Hollywood (aka pedowood) is the home of Satan's propaganda factory, its main aim to push misery and atheism and debauchery and lies and murder and violence. It will be destroyed in due course, never to return.

[@charlie-obrien]

I am always aware of how much space there is in Kubrick's scenes. We live in a big world and he is not going to crowd the senses in an attempt to be artistic. It plays out so much more realistically as to how we really see the world and experience ourselves in it.

[@mantabond]

. . .and, if I might add, that space may also be said to exist in the manner of speech of his actors.

[@jaegermeister1968]

I saw the film for the first time about 30 years ago and it shook me. Blind obedience, incompetent officers who give a damn about their soldiers, vain idiots who, far from any danger, make decisions that have been catastrophic for the fighting troops. But the most perverse thing, after the First World War, many high-ranking officers of the General Staff wrote their memoirs where they pitied themselves or praised themselves, overfed in the war, never at the front and always in the warm, surrounded by lieutenants as servants.

[@glenmoss02]

Douglas' best film imho. The entire cast was outstanding, but special mentions to George Macready, Ralph Meeker, and Wayne Morris. Truly a superb film.

[@jameshood1928]

A cinema masterpiece that deserved more acclaim when it was released. Outstanding performance by Douglas who was so credible as the brave and loyal battalion commander. I also liked Vic Morrow, who died way too young in that movie accident. We see war in its various phases and the ultimate folly of it all.

[@brianwalsh1401]

Just like in the Ukraine now and the US in Iraq in 2003. Completely senseless wars started by narcissistic leaders for no reason other then their own glorification. Just 2 recent examples.

[@sullivanspapa1505]

as luck would have it, Vic Morrow died during an action movement while making a war movie!

[@glendanison3064]

That wasn't Vic Morrow. That was Ralph Meeker.

[@jameshood1928]

Thanks for the correction on Vic Morrow. He and Meeker resemble each other. But I still hold to my comments on the fine actor Morrow was.

[@glendanison3064]

@@jameshood1928 Yes, they do resemble each other. And I agree with you on what a fine actor Vic Morrow was. From the Blackboard Jungle to Sgt. Saunders in Combat and many other film and tv roles.

[@mikemccormick8115]

My favorite director. Plus the great Kirk Douglas.

[@garysouza95]

Breaker Morant is another classic of this trope. Edward Woodward's admonition to the firing squad to shoot straight was brilliant.

[@leoperidot482]

Shoot straight you bastards, and don't make a mess of it! Supposedly Lord Kitchener drowned when his ship hit a mine. Talk about poetic justice. What's interesting is that the allies executed more of their own men than the Germans did during WW 1. British and French were bloody ruthless.

[@flippered9999]

"shoot straight, you b*stards"

[@garysouza95]

@@flippered9999 Morant and his men did the dirty job they were asked and were sacrificed for it. Their palpable sense of betrayal was heartbreaking.

[@matthewgray469]

It was brilliant when Morant tells the Chaplain that he's a pagan, and when he explains to Bryan Brown what a pagan is Brown replies "then I'm a pagan too"

[@rowancrew2934]

Was a favourite film of mine also.

[@simapark]

The incessant steady drum in the background is the work of a genius

[@cahg3871]

The problem with movies like this is they make us examine our beliefs and that leads to very uneasy feelings-which is the point.These movies are made not to just entertain,but to educate and hopefully learn from.

[@Pulang_Diwa]

How is that a problem?

[@Willysmb44]

I remember seeing this for the first time and I was VERY surprised when this scene played all the way out. I expected the men weren't going to be shot. This is a phenomenal film

[@dindu551]

Me too but I forgot about that until you reminded me. I never understood why it happened and I still don't understand how it could ever happen. I still don't want to believe that it could happen or has ever happened. I suppose I know that I am naive.

[@gunterangel]

Well, the movie respectively the book by Humphrey Cobb of the same title were based on an actual event, that happened in March 1915 in the département Marne, when 4 ( in the movie it were only 3 ) French corporals were executed for the alleged cowardness of their battalion. So if one had read the book, one couldn't expect a "happy end" with an deus ex machina saving the poor guys at the last minute. Btw.all four French soldiers were fully rehabilitated by the state of France in 1934 and their honour restored.

[@zejaguar]

I have heard of this film but never have I seen it. I am a fan of Kubrick`s films. A true genius. I have read this film was banned in france for years. Good post.Merci.

[@jeffjames4064]

Carry a wounded man on a stretcher to his execution. Damn , that's cold.

[@leeandrewclarke]

The coldest aspect was that they awakened him so he could appreciate the moment he was ended.

[@jeffjames4064]

@@leeandrewclarke absolutely, wouldn't want the guest of honor to miss the show.

[@davidstokes5905]

James Connolly. Easter 1916

[@Toyotaamazon80series]

@@davidstokes5905 Indeed, James Connolly was a wounded man who was strapped to a chair and shot like a dog. A despicable act.

[@otiebrown9999]

Probably the best, "war movie", ever made.

[@StormLaker]

I keep forgetting that Kubrik did this movie.......it's a cinematic masterpiece that hardly sees much credit for what it is.

[@suzannedonaldson7497]

306 british and commonwealth troops inc 4 new zealanders in ww1 were executed for things like shellshock, this film was also banned in france for 17 years, the human race has a lot to answer for, i don,t think we will ever learn

[@henerymag]

Except for the Australians who refused this terrible act.

[@DavidRichardson-d9l]

It's really the upper echolons of society..that have a lot to answer for in this case ..Generals and field Marshalls who were far away from horrors of the battle !

[@joeclaridy]

​@@henerymaggood on the Aussies for having a spine

[@1FokkerAce]

The crying soldier’s acting is SO good! You feel Death breathing down your own neck just watching this.

[@michaelward9880]

Timothy Carey is the actor.

[@Hamishtarah]

On the opposite, it is a very disapointing and poor acting indeed. Or is it Kirk Douglas incarnating the Colonel Dax to the perfection that his fading the grimacing soldier's acting?

[@brianwalsh1401]

What would any of us be like in this situation. The unfairness of it all.

[@matttcoburn]

@@Hamishtarah i agree, i thought he was really bad. He and the priest were unconvincing and weakened the whole scene. Kirk just gets a slam dunk every time.

[@juwebles4352]

@@Hamishtarah really? considering he was acting out a man about to be killed I think it was pretty accurate to how one would feel in that scenario

[@SouthBaySteelers]

I think I’ve seen this film at least a dozen times. It never gets old.

[@matthewcarey3148]

A masterpiece that is under appreciated by film audiences.

[@mantabond]

This is cinema. What passes for 'cinema' these days is culture fast food.

[@thegadflygang5381]

it has an almost perfect score with one of the highest user review inputs online and is considered in the Top 100 of every person who has ever seen it. It is many things, under appreciated is not one

[@mantabond]

@@thegadflygang5381 I think a beautiful thing is not for the common mind. The film is seen as good only by they who have good taste.

[@joeclaridy]

It is underappreciated due to many governments banning it's release because they didn't want to affect their relationship with the French government. Even though it was released in the US, it was banned from all US military installations for "reasons".

[@johnvalencia7488]

Awesomely stunning movie. Watched this movie sooooo many times and never tire of watching it.

[@robertsansone1680]

One of my favorite movies. I see a little bit of myself in the personalities of each one of these executed men. That is the real art in telling a story.

[@leoperidot482]

Kirk Douglas did a tv special playing a WW 1 general who has to execute his son for cowardice. He tells his son that he'll use fake bullets but to show bravery during the execution and pretend to be dead. At the last minute the son realizes his father the general lied to him, and is executed.

[@robertsansone1680]

@@leoperidot482 I never saw that. Interesting.

[@robertsansone1680]

@@leoperidot482 Humphrey Cobb wrote the book Paths of Glory that the movie was taken from. If I remember right, it was published in 1932. At the end of the book there is a historical note. The note said, & I am paraphrasing greatly, "This was a fictional story but it is based on actual incidents". He then gives the French War department case numbers in case anyone wishes to research the cases. He continues, "After the war, the widows of some of the executed men attempted to clear their husbands names in the French courts. Some were successful. The average monetary damages awarded were one French Franc".

[@leoperidot482]

@@robertsansone1680 Yes, the show was called, TALES FROM THE CRYPT. Episode: YELLOW. I happened to stumble upon it on You Tube. Fun fact: Kirk Douglas's son Eric played the cowardly son. Dan Aykroyd was also in that episode.

[@robertsansone1680]

@@leoperidot482 Thanks for the information. I will look for it.

[@johnc2438]

Wayne Morris, who plays the cowardly Lt. Roget, was an actual World War II Navy flyer -- an ace and authentic military hero -- who was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery. According to his biography at IMDb, "Assigned to the carrier Essex in the Pacific, Morris shot down seven Japanese planes and contributed to the sinking of five ships. He was awarded four Distinguished Flying Crosses and two Air Medals."

[@adib396]

I watched this film on a whim years ago...very, very good. Probably one of Kirk Douglas' best roles and the film was so well made.

[@angloaust1575]

Douglas plays the part quite well His acting is Intense and credible!

[@aaaht3810]

I believe years ago I heard Douglas say that this was his favorite role that he played in his career.

[@hugh-johnfleming289]

His own production company, Douglas's...

[@hugh-johnfleming289]

@@aaaht3810 'Lonely are the Brave.' I heard it from his own mouth. An amazing piece of work for its time. Find it if you don't know it... The trailer kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHWueKtpobSLobM

[@ronnieince4568]

I believe it was banned in France .

[@angloaust1575]

The french folded up quite quick in 1940 they never had An offensive Strategy when declaring war in 1939 Neither did the british!

[@bigbensarrowheadchannel2739]

Kubrick was a genius. He used lines and patterns are in every movie he made. There's always some kind of uniformity either in the foreground or the background.

[@DMONEY7720]

Another amazing film from Kubrick

[@neilsailing]

I remember my Dad taking me to see this film more than 50 plus years ago..........it horrified and disgusted me about the death penalty as a 14-year-old and still does at 68...........

[@John-xk2sd]

The wounded soldier wakened up before execution is straight out of the irish rebellion of 1916 and what the British did to the great james connolly.

[@MB-fo2sk]

One of the best movies ever.

[@vidright]

„All quiet at the Western Front“ and „Path of Glory“ are the best anti war movies ever. The two films should be mandatory viewing for all militarists and war glorifiers who believe war is the right means to achieve their interests.

[@drakkondarkspell]

They know them already. They revel in the bloodshed and they want to bring back executions for those who don't share their bloodthirsty natures.

[@robertsansone1680]

Two quick stories. I had a teacher, a WWII combat veteran, who told us that "All Quiet On The Western Front" was the greatest anti-war movie ever & "Paths Of Glory" was the second greatest. I also had a WWII Marine who fought on Saipan & several other fearsome battles tell me, "You'll find that the guys who talk the toughest about war, have never been in one". I've found this to be true.

[@PauloPereira-jj4jv]

You forgot The Great Illusion, a perfect anti-war movie.

[@leoperidot482]

There's a whole slew of anti war movies that get overlooked. Perhaps the greatest anti war movie ever is; DR STRANGELOVE. THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY. APOCALYPSE NOW. BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY. THE BOYS IN COMPANY C. CASUALTIES OF WAR. CATCH-22. COMING HOME. THE DAY AFTER. DR STRANGELOVE. THE EXECUTION OF PRIVATE SLOVIK. FAIL-SAFE. FULL METAL JACKET. GARDENS OF STONE. HAMBURGER HILL. HELL IS FOR HEROES. JARHEAD. MASH. ON THE BEACH. PLATOON. SEVEN DAYS IN MAY. STOP-LOSS. THREADS. THREE KINGS. TOO LATE THE HERO. WAR MACHINE.

[@quantum_immortal69]

Born on the Fourth of July is another good one

[@bob_the_bomb4508]

Any last requests? I wonder if you could have a brief pause between the words ‘aim’ and fire? 40 years perhaps? Capt E Blackadder

[@andyadler]

“We’re like the tax man. Everyone hates us, but we’re just doing our job.”

[@bob_the_bomb4508]

@@andyadler “We aim to please” :)

[@Nick-AngelpeodSeaxisc]

Previous generations gave us magnificent backdrops to film scenes like these, we on the other hand are leaving the future generations hideous concrete monstrosities created by talentless architects.

[@joemartinez5405]

The acting in this movie by everyone was brilliant.

[@aaaht3810]

Yes and the fact that it was filmed in B&W just gives it something extra.

[@liamwilson1058]

Good movie without a CGI in sight.

[@weirdshibainu]

This movie shows the genesis of the genius of Kubrick

[@jeffsmith2022]

This film, was superb in every regard, IMO...So many, fine actors...How good was George Macready in this film?...

[@jules151968]

One of the best/moving films i have seen.

[@historomaniak]

Small overlooked detail of the scene, which may be just purely a technical thing. All French soldiers carry Label rifles even ones escorting the soldiers to be executed, apart from the firing squad. They have German Gewher 98s rifles. It may have different meaning or no meaning at all, but for me it meant that they died from German bullets, but ones condemning them to death were other French man. The whole movie, message of the film is encapsulated perfectly in this scene alone.

[@freddiefreihofer7716]

Furthermore, the actor propped upright is actually standing, or leaning, under his own power. No way he could be semi-conscious in that posture with ropes as they are.

Perhaps it's because 8mm lebel blanks were not availble, or because the lebel rifles are props, but it's a good explanation too

[@kennethgarland4712]

And just another technical detail, that I've only just noticed - the escorts to the condemned men are carrying their rifles in the American Shoulder Arms fashion. For some reason, although it looked uncomfortable, the French armed forces used to shoulder arms with the rifle action (bolt, etc) downwards on the shoulder. Nowadays, they just keep their automatic weapons strapped across the chest.

[@mattnorman8897]

This movie is such a masterpiece !

[@garyvesper9647]

Brilliant movie. Classic

[@patricktalbot8980]

Kinda off topic here but one of the arguments the west made in WW1 was that the axis powers were backwards and undemocratic but in reality was especially the Germans treated their soldiers with far more respect and had less of these executions that often happened on the allies side to cover up poor planning. The German command famously thought little of allied generals but had great respect for the rank and file

[@vidright]

True!

[@brucetucker4847]

Germany was far from backwards, but it was undemocratic. That same high command pretty much dictated foreign and military policy to the kaiser and the Reichstag, and was largely responsible for turning the Balkan crisis into a general war, going so far as to go behind the civilian government's back to sabotage its (and the kaiser's) efforts to avoid war with Russia and France.

[@michaelmartinez3674]

I guess that's why Hitler fired some generals and "FIRED" others. 😶

[@Capt.DanInJapan]

There are a few arguments to describe how the First World War started but the idea that the Central Powers (the Axis Powers was a term used to describe the bad guys in WW2) weren't democratic doesn't work. The idea of universal male suffrage was pretty radical and new at the time. As a reference point, by the time of the third Reform Act in 1884, Great Britain was less democratic than most other European nations.

[@andrewtadd4373]

A common description used even in the UK is "Lions lead by donkeys"

[@chrisholland7367]

This is a great film. This is exactly what the British Army did during ww1 306 of it's own troops shot at dawn

[@Vtwin60]

Rule 303! They caught them, and they shot them under rule Three Oh THREE!! Breaker Morant is another great film, not ww1 but same mentality

[@chrisholland7367]

@@Vtwin60 Morant was a different case all together. He was acussed of murdering several prisoners of war during the Boer War. British soldiers during ww1 were picked at random and the charges often fabricated to set an example to the rest. The French army mutinied on several occasions because of the horrific losses and poor leadership. I'm suggesting that the British high command decided to set an example by executing their own so as to push out any notion of mutiny.

[@davidbrandel1311]

Disgusting!

[@rogueriderhood1862]

@@chrisholland7367 That is nonsense, I would suggest you do some actual research on the subject, starting with reading 'Blindfold And Alone' by Cathryn Corns and John Hughes-Wilson. You might find it illuminating. you might even learn something.

[@chrisholland7367]

@@rogueriderhood1862 306 British and empire troops were executed on charges of desertion and cowardice many of those death warrants were signed personally by Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig. It is very likely that these men on trial for their lives had very little to no chance of success in their Courts Marshall.I suggest that they were made an example to their platoon, company or regiment.The French army in some sectors were refusing to fight due to the shocking loss of life and very poor leadership.

[@LarryKelly]

Never heard of this film until stumbling on this clip.

[@jerrywomack7548]

This movie was banned in France for a LONG LONG time! It does not make the French army look particularly noble!

[@richardque4952]

It was also ban in belgium ,and also movie theater near the US bases.

[@aristostovboulimienne2743]

Wayne Morris a coward in this movie and real hero of USAF during WW2.That's what I call a great performance's actor.He deserved a second role oscar

[@giantskunk]

Shattering, intense, brilliant.

[@legend9948]

The shape of things to come from Stanley Kubrick

[@ianmacleod6571]

This film and All Quiet on the Western Front ( the original ) were masterpieces of cinematography on the First World War showing the Leadership of the ordinary soldier treating them as "Cannon Fodder" and blaming them for their own inadequacies. For years I would always give to the Poppy Fund but refused to wear one as it had on the button Earl Haig Fund, a man who had God like power over men and slaughtered thousands needlessly !

[@Juanhop]

Don't forget "Gallipolli" that final minutes broke me when I first watched it.

[@antoniotaveira6522]

It reminds me the start of "The Dirty Dozen", also a military execution. The faces of these men said it all, it must have been tough and revolting to execute a brother of arms on the charges of....lack of bravery in front of the enemy. Either kill or be killed in combat or executed by your superiors.😭😱

[@vinagredelmal7717]

5:14 lo potente que es esa toma con poca profundidad de campo cuando casi todo el resto de la película está filmada de la manera inversa. Hoy muchos cineastas eso no lo entienden y filman el 80% de la película con desenfoque en el fondo, se pierde así todo impacto.

[@sgt.grinch3299]

This movie demonstrates the power and evil that corrupt men have in their hearts. It shows very few are capable of rejecting this power. Even the priest fell for this.

[@aaaht3810]

Great scene from a great film. It always struck me that when Richard Anderson reads the execution order, he seems to have realized what they have done and now really regrets what is about to happen.

[@cjrory]

Yes, you could hear it and feel it. If you're the right age, you'll recognize him as Oscar Goldman from $6 million man!

[@aaaht3810]

@@cjrory Yes. I remember him mostly from the late 50's and 60's as a character actor in many TV series. He made a lot of appearances on westerns like "The Rifleman". Usually as some sort of bad guy. He had quite a career. I guess the thing that struck me by his character in "Paths" was that throughout the movie you really came to hate him because he was such a sycophant toward the general and so cocky during the trial. In the end, his quivering voice when he read the order almost made you feel sorry for him. Good acting.

[@bryancreech1236]

It's always the man behind the line's that talk bad about the man In the front line's !!!

[@None-zc5vg]

@@aaaht3810 Wayne Morris had one of his best moments on film when, as Lt. Roget, he simply said "I'm sorry" to one of the men who were about to be shot. Morris had broken (and wrecked) his career in pictures to serve in the U.S. Navy as an ace fighter-pilot: he died suddenly in 1959, two years after "Paths Of Glory" was released.

[@aaaht3810]

@@None-zc5vg Yes. And Ralph Meeker simply nodded, knowing nothing he could say would change anything. A lot said in a few seconds. I did not know about Morris' military record. Impressive.

[@jimhardy743]

One of my all time favorite movies.

[@tennysonfordblackbird2087]

Watched All Quiet on The Western Front on Saturday Night and it was the 1930 version and truly a masterpiece .

[@gamberrosepicos4173]

Una peli genial que muestra la parte de la sinrazón de las guerras. Nada de honor, nada de épica, sólo muerte. A veces es necesario tomar las armas, pero no de esta manera.

[@cronistamundano8189]

That is one of my favorite films. Everything about it is technically and dramatically right

[@thelonious-dx9vi]

One of my three favorite war films (not counting Strangelove). Grand Illusion, Thin Red Line and Paths of Glory.

[@lawrencesmeaton6930]

I've always wondered about the three soldiers and what they represent. The incapacitated, totally oblivious to their own death. The man who is dragged out screaming, praying for salvation and sure that somehow something will save him before it's too late. And the man who's resigned to his fate and faces it head on. It's very clearly intentional, I've often pondored what point Kubrick was making.

[@INFAMOUSfrontRunn3r]

This movie will piss you off

[@jackiereynolds2888]

I could never do better than the person's comment underneath me - " Wars pile up the bodies long after the wars officially end ". Where are all of these war-dead ? - THEY TOO are causalities of the war; but their own 'path of Glory' is courageously spared public scrutiny 😐.

[@hugh-johnfleming289]

This is an heady dip into all things cinema for you guys... WOWZERZ.

[@PatrickOCnMD]

Life is so precious, and Death so final. Death is the great equalizer. It comes for everyone....spares nobody in the end.

[@Barbapippo]

Simple, impressive: great movie.

[@jimmykovalak6442]

That's cold man is literally on his death bed. And they can't wait. That's just cold.

[@johnminehan1148]

I think the idea was to make sure he had not died already.

[@johnkoenig326]

The bump on his helmet matches the dimple in Kirk Douglas's chin.

[@cathbadmusic8489]

Excellent film. Superb performance from Kirk Douglas.

[@johnminehan1148]

Good small detail, the Battery Commander, not wanting to fire on his own men, asking the General to confirm his Fire Mission . . . .

[@jonathanwilkinson1461]

R.I.P Joe Turkel..

[@theindooroutdoorsman]

Never understood that, force a man to go to war and then execute him for not wanting to fight.

[@pan2aja]

That's now happening in Ukraine

[@Coltnz1]

The executions were “pour encourager les autres”

[@staggdegraaff1531]

Either fight and you my live or die but don't then you will die.

[@leoperidot482]

Because fear is a strong motivator. Give a man a choice to either die by the enemy or die as a coward. Russians were notorious for executing whom they deemed as cowards. Watch, ENEMY AT THE GATE. There was a WW 1 movie with Daniel Craig, THE TRENCH. British officers had order to shoot anyone on sight who refused to leave their trench. British and French armies executed more men for cowardice than the Germans during WW 1. British and French were bloody ruthless.

[@staggdegraaff1531]

@@leoperidot482 there's a difference between fighting for what is right and fighting for what is wrong. As for myself I will be more then willing to fight and die for freedom as my family did since and before the founding of the USA because we feel all human beings have a right to be FREE.

[@piotrczuchowski1080]

If you haven't seen the full movie - do it. Knowing who and how was behaving before this moment is impoirtant.

[@mgtowsoldier8673]

Your men died wonderfully Colonel....

[@otiebrown9999]

Typical...

[@blockmasterscott]

0:04 Classic Kubrick panoramic shot.

[@davidcoleman2796]

Great movie.

[@rodrigodepierola]

That movie is awesome. Tough to watch, but, man, awesome.

[@gregthompson3274]

God bless all those men unjustly murdered like this in the war to end all wars

[@Commanderziff]

I like the guy pinching the cheek of the guy on the stretcher: "Hey... wake up... you're being executed."

[@michaelrichardson6051]

Great scene by Raplh Meeker. Calm in the face of certain death.

[@doggosscience2837]

Imagine going to court while being bedridden and then you get declared guilty

[@abominusrex3205]

War movie like no other. Very much explains the mentality of the high officials during this time. They just wanted some cannon fodder to be sacrificed for their ego.

[@westinsolyhub4559]

The best movie about true of war

[@markknopflerisnot]

He really needed to get a "good at convincing crying specialist actor" for that role

[@fubartotale3389]

Two dozen riflemen to shoot three guys. French marksmanship on display!

[@edl617]

One of the best anti war movie ever made

[@ultimatemovierecaps]

Amazing movie my friend.

[@samorpeterenpretene9184]

Now I see where Liviu Ciulei got it from for his film Forest of the Hanged It’s had to be Kubrick who did it first. Greatly appreciated

[@jayturner3397]

In my top ten of all time

[@Gwaithmir]

Me too. I have it in my DVD collection.

[@samesame5524]

What have mankind done? Nothing.

[@NineInchTyrone]

Great acting

[@georgesbinetter2416]

Kubrik, ce génie, montre de manière magistrale aussi le mépris abject des officiers, imbuvables snobs, pour la piétaille.

[@eddiecochran]

Una autentica Obra Maestra !!

[@fredmasse6451]

Everybody do know : this movie was not authorized to see in France until the 80s. After this scene , everyone understand. What a shame for France …

[@Geordieerskine]

A Great Film.

[@tilerman]

Where was this scene shot?

[@turkishmaningermany8819]

This scene was referenced in "yellow" from tales from the crypt

[@stephenbrown3835]

Kirk Douglas ~~~ Real Man ~~ Real Actor ~~ When the generals balls up ~~ Fire !!! ✝️✝️✝️

[@dbmorton1114]

The dialogue in this scene has Jim Thompson written all over it.

[@401RISaint]

Chilling scene. And accurate.

[@spade2187]

it would of been funny if they have tyrese crying sound board for this scene lol