WWII obviously overshadowed "The Great War" especially in the states. The significance of the war on a geopolitical level. A shift from Monarchies to modern governments...and its complexities should be part of any core curriculum. That being said this is the most overrated WWI film since "Saving Private Ryan". The only part of saving Ryan that was powerful and well shot was the landing at Normandy giving a sense of how many allies died before getting to fight. The rest of the story was disinteresting. Since 1946 there have been so many WWII films that were overall just better films. Now there is really not a lot of American films on WWI....This is a story that's been told in different genres so many times...that it's a WWI film simply from the title. The Gold Standard for WWI and the horrifying trench war fare, with military officer egos lays best in Kubrik's Paths of Glory...there's no WWI film that comes close.