"On April 21, 1930 'All Quiet on the Western Front' based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Louis Wolheim and Lew Ayres, premiered in Los Angeles (Academy Awards Outstanding Production 1930)." The film is extremely faithful to the book.
This film also still serves as the template for every war film made it to be made. Many of the techniques are still being used today such as camera angling, close-ups, panning, fading, and pyrotechnics.