Hollywood: Hollywood Goes to War (Episode 4)

Episode 4: The outbreak of World War I provided Hollywood with one of its greatest sources of plots - and profits. As the American mood shifted away from neutrality, Hollywood followed, abandoning films with pacificst themes for stories of war at the front. With the arrival of peace war films vanished until King Vidor made "The Big Parade" in 1925. Acclaimed by critics and audiences alike, it made a fortune for MGM. "What Price Glory?", directed by Raoul Walsh, quickly followed. Lewis Milestone's "All Quiet on the Western Front" showed the German side of the conflict, and became the most powerful statement on the war by the generation that fought it.

Includes rare footage and excerpts from HEARTS OF THE WORLD (1918), THE BIG PARADE (1925), WHAT PRICE GLORY? (1926), and WINGS (1927); interviews with Douglas Fairbanks Jr., King Vidor, Lillian Gish, Blanche Sweet, and more.

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