Filmed in 1930, the film has a message as true then as it is today. With war raging overseas, thousands of young men have stepped forward to "die for their country." After being told by so many how honorable it is to serve their country, they enlist. Soon after going overseas they find out that war is hell, and that there's nothing glamorous about dying for one's country, but rather that war is insane, and that the people who should really be fighting the war are the diplomats who started it all. The ending is both powerful and brilliant, all done to project the directors anti-war message, and it is done well.