In the first half of the episode, we discuss All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Marie Remarque. In the second half of the episode, we discuss the 1930 film adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front  directed by Lewis Milestone

The following sources were consulted for this episode:

• AFI Catalog
• All Quiet on the Western Front, Universal's 100th Anniversary Collector's Series. Blu-ray. 
• Smithsonian Magazine about All Quiet as a banned book: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/most-loved-and-hated-novel-about-world-war-I-180955540/
• Article on Lew Ayres from Los Angeles Times: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/la-en-mn-oscar-lew-ayres-hacksaw-ridge-20170117-story.html
• Lew Ayres: Hollywood's Conscientious Objector by Lesley L. Coffin. University Press of Mississippi, 2012.
• Webpage on history of Academy Awards Best Screeplays and Writers: https://www.filmsite.org/bestscreenplays.html

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